For the last eight years, Accenture has released its annual Technology Vision to identify the top trends that will impact major enterprises in the next few years. These trends represent the next wave of technology that are important for industry leaders to pay attention to and plan for. Below are examples of how five of the trends in the 2014 Technology Vision are driving disruption in healthcare. 1. Digital–physical blur 2. From workforce to crowdsource 3. Data supply chain 4. Harnessing hyperscale 5. Business of applications Courtesy: Accenture Copyright © 2014 Accenture All rights reserved. Accenture, its logo, and High Performance Delivered are trademarks of Accenture.

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5. Business of applications: Software as a
core competency in the digital world
An unintended benefit of the electronic health record (EHR) is its
potential to create a shared platform for decision-making among
patients and doctors – a possibility that is almost universally
appealing to consumers. According to a recent Accenture survey,
nearly all consumers (95 percent) want at least some online access
to their records.
4. Harnessing hyperscale: Hardware is back
(and never really went away)
Healthcare is a data-intensive environment, accounting for more
than 500 petabytes of data today, a number that is expected to rise
to 25,000 petabytes by 2020. Combine this with a growing need for
providers and payers to retrieve, analyze, and share data, and it’s
clear why healthcare organizations are increasingly migrating from
their traditionally fragmented technology infrastructure to the
cloud. With economical storage, convenient access and scalability,
cloud platforms can enable the high-speed, low-cost collaboration
essential to delivering more patient-centered, data-driven care.
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1. Digital–physical blur
“Basque Country: Managing Increased Chronicity Through Public Health Transformation,”
www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/success-basque-country-managing-increased-chronicity.aspx
2. From workforce to crowdsource
Patients Like Me: www.patientslikeme.com
“Accelerated Clinical Discovery Using Self-Reported Patient Data Collected Online and a Patient-Matching Algorithm,” Nature Biotechnology,
4/24/11, www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n5/full/nbt.1837.html
3. Data supply chain
“Accenture Technology Vision 2014,”
www.accenture.com/microsite/it-technology-trends-2014/Documents/TechVision/Downloads/Accenture_Technology_Vision_2014_Trend3.pdf
4. Harnessing hyperscale
“A New Era for the Healthcare Industry: Cloud Computing Changes the Game,” Accenture,
www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-healthcare-industry-cloud-computing.aspx
5. Business of applications
“Accenture Consumer Survey on Patient Engagement—The Virtual Waiting Room Infographic,”
www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-accenture-consumer-survey-patient-engagement.aspx
2. From workforce to crowdsource:
Enabling new data sources for
population management
When a group of individuals on Patients Like Me self-organized a
clinical trial, they observed that a common off-label use of a drug
did not work as commonly believed for patients with Lou Gehrig’s
Disease (ALS). Once they shared their experience that a relatively
dangerous drug did not have the benefits they had hoped, most
voluntarily stopped using the drug.
1. Digital–physical blur: Enabling location-
independent care
52,000 hospital visits were eliminated and cost per patient was
reduced by 7 percent during the first year of a telehealth platform
deployment in Basque Country in Spain. The platform enables
patients to access health services using an Xbox Kinect console.
3. Data supply chain:
Putting information into circulation
Faced with a vast volume of highly complex data, Texas Medical
Center uses technology with built-in statistical tools that enables a
visual representation of large data sets and empowers individuals to
perform “semi-supervised analysis” of data.
Insight Driven Health
Healthcare IT
Top Five Digital Trends Fueling
Disruption in healthcare
For the last eight years, Accenture has released its annual
Technology Vision to identify the top trends that will impact major
enterprises in the next few years. These trends represent the next
wave of technology that are important for industry leaders to pay
attention to and plan for.
Below are examples of how five of the trends in the 2014
Technology Vision are driving disruption in healthcare.
1. Digital–physical blur
2. From workforce to crowdsource
3. Data supply chain
4. Harnessing hyperscale
5. Business of applications
Copyright © 2014 Accenture
All rights reserved.
Accenture, its logo, and
High Performance Delivered
are trademarks of Accenture.
According to a recent Accenture survey,
nearly all consumers (95 percent) want at
least some online access to their records.
95%