Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) announced the launch of thecompany's new

Healthcare Sector, a dedicated vertical business unit servinghealthcare providers, health plans, pharmaceutical and medicaldevice manufacturers, and allied industries globally.

CSC's Healthcare Sector will leverage core intellectual propertyto help clients innovate new or enhanced clinical and businessprocesses, including processes related to supply chain management,revenue cycle management, claims processing, document management,and clinical trial management. The group is bolstered by the 2007acquisitions of First Consulting Group, an IT services organizationdedicated to healthcare and providing increased offshore deliveryscale, and Covansys, which strengthened CSC's offshore domainexpertise while creating an additional market channel for industry,consulting and outsourcing solutions.

Deward Watts has been named president of Healthcare Sector.Watts has been with CSC for 12 years, and previously led theAmericas Healthcare practice as vice president and managingpartner. "Organizing CSC's global healthcare resources into asingle vertical organization better positions CSC to help ourclients use information to transform healthcare," says Watts. "Ourmain focus will be delivering IT-based innovation that improvespatient outcomes and the decision making of providers, payers andlife sciences organizations."