Health: Services Overview

Delivering Insight Driven Health

The healthcare industry is in the midst of unprecedented change. Each day, healthcare providers, health plans, public health organizations and patients around the world must find their way in a complex and changing environment. What trends are impacting 21st century healthcare today?

• Rising costs. The skyrocketing costs of healthcare administration and delivery cannot be sustained, and new business models and market dynamics are on the rise.
  
  
• Healthcare reform. Widespread healthcare reform initiatives mean that new mandates and expectations are reshaping the fabric of the industry—from pay-for-performance to incentives for the adoption of health IT.
  
  
• Health IT. The emergence of digital health is opening new doors—from electronic medical records and telemedicine to connected health approaches and hospital-at-home programs.
  
  
• Consumer engagement. Healthcare consumers are increasingly savvy and engaged in an environment that is rapidly moving to evidence-based medicine.

Responding to this unprecedented change and achieving high performance means using knowledge in new ways—from the back office to the doctor’s office—to help our clients deliver more effective, efficient and affordable healthcare with Insight Driven Health.

Learn more about Insight Driven Health

For more than three decades, a wide range of the world’s leading healthcare organizations—providers, health plans and public health agencies—have turned to Accenture to help them solve their most pressing challenges and realize Insight Driven Health.

Our capabilities are unique because they are holistic in nature. We look at our clients’ challenges from multiple perspectives and always begin with a solid understanding of their needs and goals. This way, we implement solutions that address business, clinical and technological realities and can deliver both immediate results and long-term sustainability. We bring our clients the benefit of:

• A proven track record across the healthcare and life sciences community
• Holistic solutions from strategy through implementation
• World-class technology platforms
• Insights from Accenture’s High Performance Business initiatives

Each day, our 6,000 healthcare industry professionals deliver innovative approaches to enable our clients to transform how they work so they can deliver the right care at the right time to the right patient.

Accenture delivers a wide range of insight driven healthcare services and solutions—from addressing back office functions and digital health to clinical transformation and consumer engagement.

Whether working with healthcare providers, health plans or public health agencies, everything we do is rooted in responding to our clients’ most pressing challenges. As such, we are focused on helping them to optimize performance and cut costs, respond to skyrocketing healthcare costs, go digital in healthcare and connect the healthcare universe.

Only Accenture’s solutions are backed by real-world experience, business and clinical insights and innovative technologies. Working with our clients to understand their unique needs and challenges, we provide comprehensive services in the following areas among others:

Claims Processing
Clinical Transformation
eHealth
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
Health Analytics
Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Health Information Management
Healthcare Consulting
Healthcare IT
Healthcare Outsourcing
Healthcare Reform
Healthcare Solutions
Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS)