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Under the agreement, Accenture will work with Stanford to enhance clinical processes and deploy new capabilities, including business intelligence, health analytic tools and patient-centered technology. Accenture will assume certain operational and administrative responsibilities for Stanford Hospital's information technology environment.

"Our goal is to utilize technology to benefit patients while assuring that we have the most advanced capabilities and a cost-effective solution for managing operations," said Carolyn Byerly, Chief Information Officer, Stanford Hospital & Clinics.

Stanford Hospital will migrate to Accenture's virtualization offering, which will be a key component of the hospital's new technology infrastructure. Accenture will manage applications and infrastructure including applicable data centers, network, help desks and device support.

"Few hospitals have reached Stanford's technology sophistication and application of IT to patient care. We are honored to have been selected to help achieve their technology vision," said Mark A. Knickrehm, global managing director of Accenture's Health industry practice. "The use of IT in healthcare is growing dramatically and our support to Stanford Hospital demonstrates the value of Accenture's connected health vision to hospitals."

Stanford Hospital earlier this year received the highest level designation for its electronic medical record system from the HIMSS Analytics Database, the industry organization focused on the use of information technology in health care. Stanford Hospital is the fourth healthcare organization and one of only six nationwide among more than 5,000 in the HIMSS Analytics Database to achieve this top-level designation, known as Stage 7. Stanford Hospital was recently named to the "Most Wired" list in the annual Hospitals & Health Networks survey.

Source: Accenture