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Accenture Federal Services to Acquire Cognosante

by Syed Hamza Sohail 04/17/2024 Leave a Comment

Accenture Federal Services to Acquire Cognosante

What You Should Know: -       Accenture Federal Services has entered into an agreement to acquire Cognosante, a mission-driven provider of digital transformation and cloud modernization solutions for federal health, defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies.  -       Founded in 2008 by Michele Kang, Cognosante has grown rapidly to become a trusted provider of innovative technology solutions with its federal government
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Accenture, Salesforce Partner on Generative AI for Life Sciences Companies

by Jasmine Pennic 11/06/2023 Leave a Comment

Accenture, Salesforce Partner on Generative AI for Life Sciences Companies

What You Should Know:  - Accenture and Salesforce are investing in the development of Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud, focusing on innovation, assets, and accelerators powered by data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help life sciences companies create sustainable value and drive growth. - Building on their generative AI collaboration, Accenture and Salesforce will leverage their joint generative AI acceleration hub to develop new solutions and use cases for Salesforce Life Sciences
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M&A: Accenture Acquires UK Digital Health Firm Nautilus

by Fred Pennic 09/05/2023 Leave a Comment

Accenture Acquires UK Digital Health Firm Nautilus

What You Should Know:  - Accenture announced it has acquired Nautilus Consulting, a digital healthcare consultant firm in the U.K. that specializes in Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.  - The acquisition will enhance Accenture’s digital transformation, implementation, and optimization capabilities across the U.K. and global healthcare space. As part of the acquisition, Nautilus will join Accenture’s Health Strategy
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4 Keys to Modernizing Public Health Data Collection and Analysis

by Kenyon Crowley, Ph.D., Health Analytics Lead, Accenture Federal Services 05/09/2023 Leave a Comment

4 Keys to Modernizing Public Health Data Collection and Analysis

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need to modernize the nation’s public health system. Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. public health infectious disease data collection and analysis methods which are critical for identifying behavioral risk factors and preventive actions. The Problem Unfortunately, inefficiency remains a hallmark of the U.S. public health surveillance system
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Accenture Invests in Digital Twin Solution Virtonomy

by Jasmine Pennic 04/12/2023 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - Today, Accenture Ventures announced it has made a strategic investment in Virtonomy, a provider of data-driven simulations that use existing patient data and digital twin technology to bring life-saving medical devices to market more quickly. - Virtonomy’s digital twin simulation solution enables medical device manufacturers to build model patient virtual environments for device testing at a reduced cost and with less regulatory complexity. The solution is based on an ever-expanding database of real clinical data that reflects factors such as anatomical variability, demographic diversity, and pathological conditions. Virtonomy plans to use the strategic investment to extend its capabilities to medical technology companies across the globe and power the future of medical device design. The strategic investment is part of Accenture Venture’s Project Spotlight, an engagement and investment program that targets emerging technology software companies that can help fill strategic innovation gaps for the Global 2000.

What You Should Know: - Today, Accenture Ventures announced it has made a strategic investment in Virtonomy, a provider of data-driven simulations that use existing patient data and digital twin technology to bring life-saving medical devices to market more quickly.  - Virtonomy’s digital twin simulation solution enables medical device manufacturers to build model patient virtual environments for device testing at a reduced cost and with less regulatory complexity.
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KLAS: Approaches to Moving Epic in the Cloud 2023

by Syed Hamza Sohail 04/06/2023 Leave a Comment

KLAS: Approaches to Moving Epic in the Cloud 2023

What You Should Know: The benefits of public cloud are promising, as many Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft customers (both provider organizations and vendors) have noted in previous KLAS research. The first health systems using a public hyperscale cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure) to support their EHR environment in the cloud have begun to go live, and interest in this approach is gaining momentum, particularly among Epic organizations. Most who are
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Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them 

by Syed Hamza Sohail 03/24/2023 Leave a Comment

New Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them

What You Should Know: - Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. - A new report from Accenture, US health inequity: beyond the statistics, analyzes the role US healthcare ecosystem participants can play in addressing health inequities due to race and ethnicity. The statistics are staggering.  Analysing Key Trends Concerning Health Inequities  To understand the human and economic
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17 Execs Share How Health IT Can Address Clinician Burnout, Staffing, & Capacity

by Fred Pennic 03/23/2023 Leave a Comment

Survey: Clinician Burnout Is A Public Health Crisis Demanding Urgent Action

Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those who remain to do the work are overburdened.  We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity. Staffing levels
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Accenture: Data Collaboratives Hold Great Promise for Accelerated Healthcare Progress and Precision Medicine

by Syed Hamza Sohail 03/16/2023 Leave a Comment

Accenture: Data Collaboratives Hold Great Promise for Accelerated Healthcare Progress and Precision Medicine

What You Should Know: - Accenture published Fast-Forwarding Healthcare through Data Collaboratives Report to discover how best health ecosystem players access data to fast-forward healthcare. - Data generated by technical and scientific advances, like connected health devices, consumer health and medical-grade digital apps, individual multi-omics profiling data and the move to cloud storage, holds great promise for accelerated healthcare progress and precision medicine, and data
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CMS Awards Accenture Federal Services with $628M Contract to Support Healthcare.gov

by Fred Pennic 03/02/2023 Leave a Comment

CMS Awards Accenture Federal Services with $628M Contract to Support Healthcare.gov

What You Should Know: - Accenture Federal Services has won a five-year, $628 million recompete of a contract award from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to continue its work supporting Healthcare.gov. CMS made this award through the Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC) vehicle. - In 2014, Accenture Federal Services was awarded a prime contract to take over management of the Federally-Facilitated Exchange (FFE). FFE is the backbone of
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