Pharmaceutical and healthcare information provider IMS Health, US, has acquired US-based software solutions company Med-Vantage to further expand its presence and capabilities in the payer marketplace. Med-Vantage offers its clients a comprehensive suite of provider performance management and member engagement solutions that promote quality care and address the complexities of new reimbursement and care delivery models.
IMS will integrate its unique healthcare data, analytics, benchmarks and quality measures into Med-Vantage's suite of payer solutions. This combination will enable payers to proactively engage providers and members with objective information and analysis to change behaviours and create more transparent, clinically grounded performance management programmes.
IMS Payer Solutions provides comprehensive provider and de-identified patient insights, clinical benchmarks and analytical services to more than 50 health plan and pharmacy benefit management clients. In its services, IMS leverages the largest non-plan-owned integrated medical claims database with more than 70 million lives and a comprehensive pharmacy data platform covering three-quarters of all prescription activity in the US.
IMS's proprietary suite of evidence-based quality metrics drives performance programmes for both primary care and complex specialty and hospital care.
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