Modern Healthcare ranks top Health IT consultants

Modern Healthcare has released its annual survey of healthcare consultants ranked by their healthcare practice revenue for 2004. Coming in at No. 1 is Deloitte with $830 million in revenue. Following close behind are Accenture ($800 million) and CapGemini ($750 million). Not surprisingly, many analysts see the most significant deal of the year in the consulting space is Accenture's purchase of CapGemini, which created a consulting titan with $1.5 billion in combined revenues. The recent emphasis on healthcare IT in Washington, where lawmakers are pushing for the creation of a national health infrastructure and urging hospitals to modernize their networks and software, is widely seen as making the sector one of the hottest in the technology business.

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