NEW YORK & DURHAM, N.C. -- (Business Wire)
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Duke University have formed an alliance
focused on jointly developing new advanced analytics solutions to
address real-world, client-specific business challenges. The Accenture
and Duke University Analytics Research Program, which will have an
initial focus on health management research, aims to bring together
data, modeling and analysis to achieve sustainable business and patient
outcomes.
The relationship combines Accenture’s industry and analytics expertise
with Duke University’s leading interdisciplinary research capabilities.
It leverages expertise from the Information Initiative at Duke (IID),
with a close connection to the Duke Health System. The collaboration
will address complex and challenging global business problems through
the joint development of new analytics tools and techniques.
“Effectively leveraging leading-edge analytics capabilities is critical
for Accenture to deliver the next generation of outcome-focused,
business process services to our clients,” said Mike Salvino, group
chief executive, Accenture Operations. “We plan to operationalize the
predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions we develop with Duke to
tackle problems currently facing our enterprise clients. We look forward
to expanding our relationship beyond health management research into
other relevant areas in support of our business process outsourcing and
infrastructure services offerings.”
Duke graduate and undergraduate students who participate in the program
will closely collaborate on campus with Accenture professionals on two
initial projects:
- Patient care and disease management:An effective care
management program is critical to reducing the time needed to achieve
desired business outcomes and medical expenses. Within diabetes
management, the research will look to identify the key contributing
factors that can provide predictive insights into the efficacy of a
prescribed patient care path or clinical intervention. The research
team will apply predictive analysis to determine effective care
management interventions for achieving desired patient outcomes, in
the shortest amount of time, with the most efficient cost structure.
- Data mart: The health industry lacks a standardized approach
for categorizing and structuring patient data related to clinical
care, which can result in inconsistent results and interpretations of
data. This project will develop and implement a consolidated and
standard approach to create focused therapeutic data marts that can
answer specific research or clinical care questions.
“Our collaboration with Accenture will drive significant progress in the
field of advanced analytics and enable us to achieve more together than
we could alone,” said Dr. Lawrence Carin, vice provost for research,
Duke University. “Teaming with Accenture will help us translate our
ideas into results by providing us with invaluable insights on how our
research can be best applied in a real-world business context. The
alliance with Accenture also emphasizes the strong focus within IID on
teaming with the Duke Medical Center to address data-driven challenges
in medicine.”
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with more than 336,000 people serving clients in
more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience,
comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions,
and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies,
Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance
businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of
US$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page
is www.accenture.com.
About Duke University
Younger than most other prestigious U.S. research universities, Duke
University consistently ranks among the very best. Its graduate and
professional schools – in business, divinity, engineering, the
environment, law, medicine, nursing and public policy – are among the
leaders in their fields. Duke’s home campus is situated on nearly 9,000
acres in Durham, N.C, a city of more than 200,000 people. Duke also is
active internationally through the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in
Singapore, Duke Kunshan University in China and numerous research and
education programs across the globe. More than 75 percent of Duke
students pursue service-learning opportunities in Durham and around the
world through DukeEngage and other programs that advance the
university’s mission of “knowledge in service to society. The
Information Initiative at Duke (IID) brings the entire university
together to address the biggest societal challenges, as viewed through
the lens of data, leading analysis methods and subject-matter expertise.”
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Contacts:
Accenture
Oriana Branon, + 415 537 5032
oriana.branon@accenture.com
or
Duke
Research Communications
Robin Smith, + 919 681 8057
robin.a.smith@duke.edu
Source: Accenture
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