Accenture signs on the dotted line for medicine's paperless drive
By Jo Best
Published: 19 April 2004 17:55 GMT
Xerox Global Services has landed a £1.3m, two-year contract with Accenture to provide the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) with digitised versions of paper documents.
Xerox Global Services will digitise 25 million documents from the Department of Health in the first year and 40 million in the second and upload them into a specially customised document management scheme.
The MRHA hopes that the digitisation will mean greater efficiency for the agency and will mean that medicines can be delivered to those who need them faster.
The company will also help the MHRA move towards a paperless working environment within the framework of IT modernisation – which is where Accenture's involvement lies.
David Hodgson, partner at Accenture, said in a statement Xerox Global Services landed the deal because they had "the understanding of how people work with documents, particularly in an environment where paper and digital documents coexist".
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