IT Strategy and Transformation Services for the Payer Industry

Payers need to put patient needs at the center of everything they do. Accenture understands that patient-centered connected health care is essential to improving the quality, access and affordability of health systems around the world. We are committed to delivering innovative, information-based health care solutions that make a lasting difference in people's lives.

Accenture understands that as a result of changing health industry pressures and priorities, information technology organizations need to be open to fundamentally challenging the way things are currently done and considering alternative models for delivering capabilities faster, at lower cost and higher quality.

This may include initiation of efforts to advance a formal IT Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), movement towards service-oriented architectures (SOA), implementation of skills-based management, and numerous other efforts to transform IT. We also recognize that alignment to the corporate direction is critical in the transformation of IT, including identification of a technology roadmap and workforce plan linked to the business vision and imperatives.

Accenture has worked with a numerous payers in the development of their IT strategies and plans. Accenture has not only developed IT strategies and plans, but we have executed and delivered those same plans with many of our clients—we know what works, what doesn't and why.

Accenture supports its client work by conducting ongoing research through our Institute for High Performance on the characteristics of high-performance IT organizations. Our research is focused on what chief information officers need to be doing to build high-performance IT organizations and identifies leading practice fundamentals. Our research is based on sound and quantifiable measures of performance and brings insight into the best way to run IT organizations.

Legacy Modernization—Through Accenture's legacy modernization services, payers can reduce legacy system inefficiencies with the goal of dramatically increasing system flexibility through a services-oriented architecture while reducing system costs.