Reimagine the future of healthcare with cloud
Cloud is the foundation for the future of healthcare and streamlines operations, advances innovation and improves care.
Healthcare organizations are under pressure to expand access while increasing affordability, streamline patient experience through transparency and personalization, and ultimately, improve clinical outcomes through analytics and next-gen digital native capabilities. Doing these things takes continuous innovation, data insight and integration, and new ways of working. It’s all possible with a cloud-rooted foundation.
We see cloud as much more than a technology investment. To make the most of it, healthcare organizations must shift how they run the business and their culture. With cloud technologies at the center of the business, healthcare organizations can pursue the next wave of innovation. It’s about harnessing cloud to deliver technology, business and human outcomes. And reimagining the future of healthcare in the process.
Reinvent healthcare operations. Evolving health access so that new therapeutic and care models deliver easier, more accessible virtual care.
Power healthcare innovation. Meeting people’s expectations for secure personalized interactions through digital-first experiences.
Humanize healthcare. Improving decisions and delivering care by integrating research evidence and clinical expertise with people’s values and preferences.
The convergence of technology and human ingenuity has created a new era of healthcare. People are at the center of care delivery and providers can make decisions based on real-time insights in ways that they never could before. Cloud is the most important enabler of this shift.
By moving to the cloud, providers can unlock the full potential of their people by restructuring their organizations to replace routine tasks with automation, machine learning and AI at scale. Providers can transform business models and technology portfolios to deliver differentiated experiences that meet people’s changing expectations and drive profitable growth. And they can reorient their organizations to be insight driven. It’s a profound shift from reactive to proactive care delivery that can result in better outcomes such as reduced readmittance rates and better management of chronic conditions.
With cloud, providers can unlock value in critical areas:
Migrating EMR to cloud is a foundation for secure, connected, insight-driven—and humanized—healthcare across the ecosystem. Providers can instantly get comprehensive patient data when they need it. Their organizations can get cybersecurity muscle to enhance patient privacy and reimagine workflows. It’s all about better, more secure experiences through real-time data connection with less cost and more flexibility.
The movement toward humanizing healthcare is pushing payers to re-evaluate their priorities and business models to ensure that they are relevant to all their stakeholders. This is creating meaningful change in how payers work and serve members. Cloud is a critical foundation to enable this change.
By moving to the cloud, health payers can make important strategic pivots—from personalizing interactions and improving member experience to innovating payment models and speeding development of new products and services. They can become insight driven in everything from quote management to patient care decisions. And they can transform ways of working. Using new technologies at scale, they can reinvent utilization management and streamline processing for claims, enrollment, provider and clinical areas.
With cloud, payers can unlock value in critical areas:
Most healthcare organizations have already begun moving their workloads to cloud, evolving toward a truly hybrid environment. But this is not a one-and-done undertaking. It is critical to continually curate the vision, refresh the value case and adjust the plan based on changing needs.
Accenture outlines how the cloud continuum creates a seamless technology and capability foundation that leads to cloud success.