Deloitte Invests $150M In Healthcare Analytics

Bernie Monegain | Government Health IT | February 21, 2014

Deloitte officials announced this week the launch of ConvergeHEALTH, a new business unit to give the work of transformation momentum and help healthcare organizations answer the 'hard questions.'

Envisioning a future when healthcare is data-driven in a big way, Deloitte Consulting has launched a new business unit and is investing between $150 million to $200 million in life sciences and healthcare analytics and launching ConvergeHEALTH, a new business unit to give the work of transformation momentum.

The formation of ConvergeHEALTH is one part of a $150 million to $200 million investment Deloitte is making in life sciences and healthcare analytics. It combines Deloitte's capabilities in health analytics with its services in consulting.

"Healthcare systems are facing multiple pressures now that really make analytics and in particular the secondary use of healthcare information really move from a nice-to-have to really, truly an imperative for survival in the coming years," Brett Davis, Deloitte consulting principal and general manager of ConvergeHEALTH, tells Healthcare IT News.