What Do You Know About Truven Health Analytics? Trivia Quiz

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We have built a large and loyal customer base as represented by the nearly 14-year average tenure of our top 20 clients. The length of our key client relationships highlights the value we provide to our clients and creates a platform to expand and grow our client relationships over time.

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Our 4.5 petabytes of online data includes 20 billion data records on nearly 200 million de-identified patient lives, and represents a collection of some of the most comprehensive data assets in the industry, including one of the largest collections of commercially insured patient data (MarketScan); one of the largest databases of operational benchmarks (included in ActionOI) and clinical performance data (included in CareDiscovery) for hospitals; and one of the most comprehensive databases of evidence-based clinical decision support content (Micromedex).

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The convergence of payer and provider business models, the growth in government influence in healthcare, and the increasing system-wide emphasis on value have created opportunities for us to sell our solutions across multiple end markets. Examples of our cross-market synergy include: • Our population health solutions that draw on clinical data integration from our provider capabilities and claims data integration and analysis from our payer capabilities; • The expansion of our payment integrity offerings from health plans and government markets into the employer market • The sale of our data assets and related solutions and services sourced in one market into other end markets; and • Powerful large hospital systems and government agencies with employer decision support solutions.

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With more than 8,500 customers across all health care constituencies, we have clients in all 50 states (and in 83 countries around the world). Analytics have become even more important as healthcare constituents are increasingly seeking ways to reduce costs, manage risk, improve operational performance, enhance patient outcomes and increase transparency. This has resulted in an accelerated demand for sophisticated healthcare analytics solutions and services.

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Overall, more than half (53%) say they are willing to share their de-identified data with researchers, but this rate varies with age. Millennials are most likely (61%), while members of the Silent Generation are least likely (43%) to be willing to share their data. Interestingly, fewer than 25% are willing to share their purchase history or social media activity, even if it could improve their overall health.

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Our clients include more than 50% of Fortune 100 and more than 25% of Fortune 500 companies. Our population health and cost analysis solutions help our clients integrate and analyze healthcare data. Analytic methods are integrated with clinical and claims data and tools to enable care management, health benefits management, performance measurement, data exchange and integration, treatment cost transparency and personalized consumer engagement. (Key population health and costs analysis products include: Advantage Suite, Consumer Advantage, Unify)

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Our provider performance management solutions help care delivery organizations track, measure and improve performance across core functions, including operational, financial, marketing and planning, and clinical and quality domains. (Key provider performance management products include: ActionOI, Care Discovery, Market Expert)

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We serve Medicaid agencies in 30 states covering more than 50% of Medicaid beneficiaries. According to the Institute of Medicine, 30% of U.S. healthcare spending, or approximately $750 billion, is wasted annually on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud and abuse, and other problems (e.g. medical errors and avoidable care). Payment integrity solutions support government clients, for both Medicare and Medicaid data, as well as health plans and employers, to fight fraud, waste, and abuse by way of powerful applications, advanced analytic methods, an extensive algorithm library and data mining capabilities. (Key products include: DataProbe, J-SURS)

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We provide solutions that help improve care quality and efficiency in more than 4,000 hospitals in the U.S. and more than 1,800 healthcare facilities internationally. Clinical and intelligent evidence solutions help providers combine real-time patient data with reference information to provide a point of care decision support. Our clinical solutions integrate with providers' clinical systems, giving immediate access to the evidence-based information needed, at the point of care. (Key products include: Micromedex Evidence, 360 Care Insights, Patient Connect)

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We serve nearly all of the top 25 life sciences companies. Our MarketScan solutions provide pharmaceutical, biotech and government researchers with the critical data needed to execute their studies in outcomes and comparative effectiveness research. They provide a broad, up-to-date picture of treatment patterns and costs by tracking detailed information about important aspects of care for patients as they travel through the U.S. healthcare system. (Key products include: MarketScan Treatment Pathways)