STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of MEDai Inc., US, a leading healthcare predictive analytics and data mining solutions provider. Terms of the arrangement were however not disclosed.
MEDai's predictive analytics and data mining solutions combined with Elsevier's existing evidence and experienced-based medical content will enable the global publisher to provide integrated clinical decision support (CDS) solutions to improve performance and patient care and support quality and cost improvement. In addition, this acquisition will provide Elsevier with an expanded customer base of large health insurance companies, providing an important distribution channel for Elsevier's payer/provider and e-clinical decision support solutions.
MEDai has solutions that include severity adjustment (determining the severity of a disease and its affect on the patient's outcome through the analysis of relevant data), benchmarking and evidence-based care processes. Payers and care management organisations use MEDai to predict patients at risk, identify cost drivers for high-risk populations, forecast future health plan costs, evaluate patient patterns over time and improve outcomes.
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