Accenture, SAP Team on Health Network

Accenture and SAP  have inked an agreement to co-develop what they call a collaborative health network (CHN), a technology solution expected to help healthcare organizations improve patient care by streamlining the way they access, integrate and share information.

Under this agreement, the CHN solution will be based on SAP technology and designed to help the industry enhance quality of care and control healthcare costs by providing an infrastructure to link a range of information and data, the companies said. The solution will also seek to help organizations maintain more reliable, accurate electronic health records that are accessible quickly by multiple parties. SAP said the solution will use an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) to help reduce IT costs and enable automated collaborative processes among industry participants—including healthcare providers, health insurance companies, public health authorities, pharmaceutical companies, physicians and pharmacies.