Providence St. Joseph Health partnered with Accenture, IBM and Deloitte to better manage its administrative services, the Renton, Wash.-based integrated health system announced late Thursday.

Accenture is tasked with modernizing accounting, accounts payable and procurement, IBM will oversee payroll, talent acquisition and human resources, and Deloitte will implement a new cloud-based enterprise resource planning IT system. It will impact about 700 of its 119,000-person workforce and Providence St. Joseph will look to redeploy affected administrative employees where possible, the organization said.

Streamlining these administrative tasks will allow Providence St. Joseph to focus on patient care, executives said. Most of the new structure and processes will be in place by October.

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