Global information and technology services company IMS Health has acquired Dataline Software, a leader in Big Data analytics for healthcare, to extend its technology-enabled Real-World Evidence (RWE) platform and accelerate delivery of integrated clinical and cost-of-care insights for assessing healthcare value and performance. Dataline's powerful software tools significantly expand the capabilities of Evidence 360™, IMS Health's scalable and secure RWE platform that helps clients extract, analyse and visualise real-world data to better understand and measure healthcare outcomes.
UK-based Dataline has worked closely with life sciences companies, payers, healthcare authorities and academia to deliver tailored software for rapid analysis and elegant visualizations of large, complex healthcare data sets. The combination of Dataline technology with IMS Health’s mission-critical information, global data management capabilities, and scientific and commercial expertise offer clients an unparalleled portfolio of RWE solutions. Evidence 360 brings together IMS Health's vast library of patient-anonymous data with other patient-anonymous sources of health information to help decision makers interpret real-world outcomes in near real time.
Treatment and outcome insights will be enabled by a number of new features on the Evidence 360 platform, including enhanced search engine supporting fast, secure access to data; improved R&D, clinical trial and observational studies capabilities; and sophisticated visualization tools to increase usability of insights.
