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For children with a specific rare, genetic condition, diagnosis is no longer a death sentence; a leading biotech company developed a new drug to treat the condition. Supporting services, ready for the drug’s launch, would offer patients and their families a lifeline. In only five months, Accenture helped develop and maintain the patient services platform to improve drug access and orchestrate the ongoing treatment that patients need to live a long and fulfilling life.
Imagine that you’re a parent whose child was just diagnosed with a rare, debilitating and potentially fatal genetic condition—every family’s worst nightmare.
Where do you go, and who do you turn to? A leading biotech company wanted to help these families put the nightmare behind them. It developed a drug to help treat the condition, but wanted to have a support system in place for families in time for the drug’s launch. Support services would help patients access the care they need over their lifetimes. The company needed robust and flexible capabilities to foster closer relationships with the children, their families, and a complex array of medical specialists and caregivers throughout treatment. It collaborated with Accenture to create and maintain a patient services technology platform that would help families access the drug and get the support they need.
The company tapped Accenture’s Intelligent Patient Services capabilities to deliver a patient services platform in only five months—in time for the medicine’s fast-tracked FDA approval. Working closely with business counterparts, the team used an agile delivery methodology to adjust the solution as the service design for the new product evolved. The Salesforce Service Cloud solution supports the requirements of the new drug but allows the platform to grow as the company’s portfolio of products and related patient services expand.
It orchestrates a complex care management program consisting of financial assistance, insurance benefits investigations, logistical assistance like transport services to treatment centers, and product education for patients and their families. Nursing support helps patients and parents understand what the treatment entails. Without this tool, the burden to connect these dots would fall to families and their doctors.
The service is a hand to hold for patients and their families, helping them access care quickly and easily connect with their network of specialists. In just four weeks post-launch, more than 600 patients had started the onboarding process to the platform with 22 already starting on the therapy. The consistency of care throughout treatment is having a remarkable impact on outcomes:
With its powerful, scalable new service and platform, the company is helping young patients access life-saving treatment faster and improve their health outcomes.