Accenture Partners with SAP on Healthcare Product
September 20, 2006 8:03AM
SAP and Accenture will work together to market, support and service the new product, which is expected to be released in mid-2007. As appropriate, the new product also will be a component of the Accenture Electronic Health Record Connection Platform, the company's global approach to providing information management and exchange services to the health care industry.
Management and technology consulting firm Accenture Ltd. and German business software maker SAP AG said Wednesday they agreed to co-develop a health network service designed to improve patient care by streamlining the way health care organizations access, integrate and share information.
The new product will be based on SAP NetWeaver and will provide an infrastructure to link a range of information and data. The product also will help maintain reliable, accurate electronic health records that are accessible quickly by multiple parties.
Gartner research projects that with a 4.6 percent increase in IT spending, health care will lead all other industry sectors in the growth of information technology in 2006.
SAP and Accenture will work together to market, support and service the new product, which is expected to be released in mid-2007. As appropriate, the new product also will be a component of the Accenture Electronic Health Record Connection Platform, the company's global approach to providing information management and exchange services to the health care industry.
This partnership will use the Accenture Innovation Center for SAP NetWeaver, located at SAP's development headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. This is Accenture's global hub for developing and delivering next-generation SAP-based services.
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