Clinical Transformation Services for the Health Care Industry

National concerns about patient safety, new "pay-for-performance" models and external report cards have put the issue of clinical quality at the forefront of hospital executives' concerns. Medical staff satisfaction and nurse retention are additional worries, and the financial challenges just keep on coming.

Implementing a clinical information system plays an important role in addressing patient issues. These new systems have a robust range of capabilities, such as computerized physician order entry, electronic medical record-keeping and electronic medication administration. They offer strong potential to enable high performance through reducing medical errors, fostering evidence-based medicine, giving clinicians more time for patient care, and improving financial results.

But these systems cannot be implemented overnight. The investment is large, the selection process difficult, and implementation is complex. Accenture is experienced in helping clients to implement clinical information systems to accelerate toward high performance.

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Accenture has developed an integrated solution to help companies implement clinical transformation systems to support high performance.

Requirements for quality, patient safety, efficiency and cost reduction, amidst increasingly sophisticated clinical information systems, has created a unique challenge in the health care industry. Accenture offers health providers an innovative approach that marries process redesign, change management and risk management with technology to deliver high performance.

Accenture has a superior track record in implementing packaged and custom-developed solutions to address the health care industry's challenging requirements. We have the largest base of resources dedicated to health care of any management consulting firm, all with deep functional, technical and process skills and experience.

We also focus on getting physicians and nurses to adopt clinical information systems, aligning their behavior around common goals of providing high-quality care. Our approach is proven by a strong track record of quickly delivering world class clinical outcomes that raise levels of performance. We have helped clients achieve return on their investments of as high as three to one.

Accenture offers a range of clinical transformation solutions that accelerate the journey toward high performance, including:

• Clinical Transformation Blueprint: We work collaboratively with the client's leadership team to identify the benefits of system implementation and develop a business case.
  
  
• Readiness Assessment: Our solution helps answer any questions and provides the strategies to close any gaps.
  
  
• Package Evaluation and Selection: We can help clients evaluate vendor solutions holistically and identify long-term benefit and value.
  
  
• Transforming IT and Application Management: Accenture transfers knowledge in a planned manner, with a program to phase out consulting assistance at the end of the design period.
  
  
• Transforming Care: Accenture employs a collaborative approach to improve many aspects of the overall health care system.
  
  
• Physician-driven Design: Accenture has a proven track record with physician adoption and a set of tested tools to encourage sponsorship by your medical staff.
  
  
• Accelerated Implementation: We use technology accelerators to speed implementation.
  
  
• Custom clinical content: Our collaborative solution encourages ownership from your clinical leaders, while building on our extensive existing foundation of industry materials.
  
  
• Patient safety: Accenture’s Patient Safety solution involves in-depth process redesign, identifying areas where technology can prevent errors, helping your organization to implement "safety systems."

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