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
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
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
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
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
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
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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KLAS Names Chartis, Nordic, Tegria Top Performers for IT Advisory Services
What You Should Know: - In the IT advisory space, many firms perform well, but the breadth of their expertise varies—some firms offer many services, while others focus on a specific area. KLAS's latest report examines the breadth of firms’ validated services as well as client satisfaction and performance consistency. - To provide better transparency into IT advisory services, KLAS has broken them into the following four segments: IT planning and assessment, revenue cycle optimization,
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Accenture, UKG Partners with Ardent Health Services to Transform Workforce Management
What You Should Know: - Accenture, UKG and Ardent Health Services announced a collaboration to help Ardent Health Services improve workforce visibility and agility across its network of 30 hospitals and 200 sites of care. - Ardent is using technology to transform its workforce operations and empower frontline talent with more flexible scheduling solutions that support work-life experiences, while remaining focused on providing quality healthcare services. - The Accenture and UKG
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How Chatbots Can Be the Next Best Thing in Healthcare
Today’s healthcare facilities are facing critical staffing problems. Over 19% of U.S. hospitals are experiencing staffing shortages, according to government data posted earlier this year. Caused primarily by the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses and doctors have left hospitals and healthcare clinics because of the dangerous, high-stress conditions. More recently, the U.S. saw rulings and changes that could affect an individual’s access to healthcare – driving more questions and concerns from patients
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