Health & Public Service

ARLINGTON, Va.; Oct. 9, 2018 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced that Lt. Gen. Mary Legere, USA (Ret.), a managing director in Accenture Federal Services, has received the Saint Isidore Army Cyber award. Sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the award recognizes individuals who demonstrate exceptional initiative, leadership, insight and cyber excellence within their area of expertise.

ORLANDO; Oct. 8, 2018 – Three-fourths (76 percent) of policing personnel expect that they will need new digital skills to be effective in their roles over the next three to five years, and half (50 percent) are willing to learn new digital skills if they receive the necessary training from their employer, according to findings of a six-country survey released by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) at the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).

ARLINGTON, Va.; Oct. 3, 2018 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been awarded a contract to build a new cloud solution for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Chief Financial Officer. The contract, which has an estimated value of $501.2 million over a 10-year performance period, is part of the USDA’s broader modernization effort.

SAO PAOLO; Brazil; Oct. 2, 2018 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has built an application on SAP Cloud Platform using SAP Leonardo® technologies and virtual reality to help amputees overcome challenges when confronted with phantom limb pain.

ARLINGTON, Va.; (Sept. 20, 2018) – Enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to drive heightened citizen expectations for government innovation and personalized services, according to results of a multi-country survey from Accenture (NYSE: ACN).

ARLINGTON, Va.; Sept. 17, 2018 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has awarded Accenture Federal Services (AFS) a position on the ONE IT contract – a multiple-award, indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity contract with a total estimated value of $2.5 billion.

CHICAGO; Sept. 12, 2018 – A new report by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has found that half of U.S. consumers are unable to navigate the complexity of the healthcare system on their own and that this low level of health system “literacy” costs the industry an estimated $4.8 billion annually in administrative expenses alone.

DUBLIN; Sept. 6, 2018 – Accenture and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners are piloting a voice-driven Virtual Digital Assistant to provide more streamlined tax-related services to Irish citizens. The Virtual Digital Assistant is powered by advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies. Revenue, Ireland’s tax and customs administration, is one of the first revenue agencies in the world to implement a voice-bot service for citizens.

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA; Aug. 29, 2018 – Penn State has successfully completed the implementation of a new enterprise-wide human resources and payroll system based on Workday^® software. The University partnered with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) on planning and implementation following a competitive procurement process for the multi-year project, which began in 2015.

CANBERRA; Aug. 1, 2018 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today opened an innovation hub in Canberra, providing defence and national security organisations in Australia and New Zealand with access to the latest technology innovations and digital solutions to help them innovate and stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape.