Strategy and Transformation Services: Achieving High Performance in Health Care

Accelerating growth, enhancing efficiency, managing capital—these are the goals of most health organizations in pursuit of high performance in today's turbulent market.

Many health providers are plagued by myriad financial pressures, including increasing costs, scarce labor, demanding consumers, profit erosion from competition, greater technology and physical plant requirements, and limited access to capital markets.

Meeting these challenges so as to deliver high performance requires a marked transformation. Accenture can help.

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At Accenture, we understand that the foundation of any business strategy is financial and operational security.

We help our clients achieve and sustain organizational excellence by enhancing business processes and introducing enabling technologies, as well as empowering people. Accenture can help integrate the physician community, increase staff productivity, manage return on investment and extend the life of current information systems. Through revenue and system performance initiatives, we have reduced clients' operational costs by as much as 15 percent and generated a significant return on investment for some of the largest health organizations.

Accenture's strategy and transformation services deliver high performance. Proven tools include advanced facilitation techniques, demonstration centers and development laboratories. We have significant clinical experience, with a staff that includes physicians, nurses, coding specialists, medical and radiology technicians, pharmacists and dieticians. In addition, our rich benchmarking databases and tested methodologies deliver results and reduce risk.

Accenture has a full range of strategy and transformation services designed to help clients achieve high performance:

• Strategic Planning, Market Growth and Portfolio Management: Accenture helps align organizational goals with appropriate levels of effort and investment.
  
  
• Business Transformation: Accenture's methodologies, benchmarking databases and leading-edge technologies help clients achieve and sustain operational and financial improvements.
  
  
• Turnaround: Accenture can help health providers build and implement a stabilization plan to achieve rapid results in cash acceleration and asset reconfiguration, revenue growth, and cost reductions.
  
  
• Capacity Management: Accenture can help clients address capacity problems by helping make key process and technology changes.
  
  
• Physician Alignment: Accenture helps improve revenue by redesigning front-end admitting and back-end collection processes.
  
  
• Focused Departmental Reviews: Accenture leverages its deep industry and clinical experience with proprietary benchmarking and leading practice databases to boost profitability and productivity.

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