Accenture has announced the acquisition of German healthcare management consultancy consus.health, with the aim of building capabilities around digital transformation and managed services and enhancing consus.health’s reach across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Consus.health provides services including medical strategy, patient management, infrastructure management and construction management services, and has a “strong presence in the German market” at present with more than 600 healthcare provider and hospital customers.
The acquisition will see 140 experts from consus.health joining Accenture’s Health Strategy and Consulting practice in Germany. It also marks the “latest in a series of strategic investments” from Accenture to build its remit around consulting, digital transformation and managed services within healthcare.
Dr Djordje Nikolic, consus.health founder and CEO, comments: “By joining Accenture, we will continue our mission of structurally and economically empowering healthcare organizations to care for their patients. I am convinced that with Accenture’s digital expertise and consus.health’s healthcare know-how, we will help make a difference in healthcare and offer exciting new opportunities to our employees.”
In other acquisitions news, HTNI reported how Spanish digital healthcare company Mediktor acquired San Franciso-based Sensely, provider of an “empathy-driven” conversation platform designed to support hospital systems and insurance services with member management.
Also from Germany, we explored the Future Plan 2050 from German teaching hospital Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf.
- 1
- 2
