Truven Health Analytics to Showcase New Population Health Management Solution at HIMSS

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, will feature its new, comprehensive solution for population health management during the 13^th Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, March 3-7, 2013. The Truven Health Unify solution brings together powerful data management, clinical workflow, and analytic methodologies to help business and clinical leaders and care managers improve patient outcomes, enhance the health of populations, and reduce costs.

“Complete, accurate information, seamless coordination of care and effective patient engagement are the keys to improving the quality of healthcare while reducing cost; we believe Unify will play a key role in helping healthcare stakeholders attain that goal.”

Truven Health Unify is a cloud-based platform that is interoperable with all major clinical health information systems and health information exchanges. Leveraging Truven Health best-in-class healthcare data warehousing, analytic methodologies and decision-support capabilities, Unify enables health plans, accountable care organizations, hospitals and health systems, and regional health information exchanges to better manage population risk, provider networks, clinical outcomes, population health management and patient population messaging and engagement. Unify is deployed in partnership with CareEvolution.

“So much of the healthcare IT response to the challenges of healthcare reform has been focused on fragmented solutions to isolated challenges. With our Unify platform, we’ve combined the collective intelligence of disparate data sets and analytics into a single resource that captures a holistic view of the patient experience,” said Mike Boswood, Truven Health Analytics president and CEO. “Complete, accurate information, seamless coordination of care and effective patient engagement are the keys to improving the quality of healthcare while reducing cost; we believe Unify will play a key role in helping healthcare stakeholders attain that goal.”

Foundational services enabled by the Truven Health Unify solution include:

Connecting disparate clinical and administrative data sources
Transforming administrative and clinical data into an encompassing patient care record
Coordinating care under new business models
Enabling new physician strategies
Providing insights to better control costs
Responding to regulatory requirements
Engaging consumers to manage health
Driving data to support population health management

The Truven Health Unify platform will be highlighted at the 13^th Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, March 3-7, 2013.

For more information about Truven Health Unify, please email populationhealth@truvenhealth.com, or visit Truven Health at booth # 2041 during HIMSS.

About Truven Health Analytics:

Truven Health Analytics delivers unbiased information, analytic tools, benchmarks and services to the healthcare industry. Hospitals, government agencies, employers, health plans, clinicians, and pharmaceutical companies have relied on its solutions for over 30 years. Truven Health Analytics combines deep clinical, financial and healthcare management expertise with innovative technology platforms and information assets to make healthcare better, collaborating with customers to uncover and realize opportunities for improving quality, efficiency, and outcomes. Truven Health Analytics owns some of the most trusted, proven brands in healthcare such as Micromedex, Action OI and Advantage Suite. Truven Health Analytics employs approximately 2,000 people worldwide and has its principal offices in Ann Arbor, Mich; Chicago; and Denver. For more information, please visit www.truvenhealth.com.

About Care Evolution

CareEvolution is a leading provider of secure interoperability solutions. Its core offering, HIEBus™, is a proven, comprehensive suite of SOA technology solutions for healthcare interoperability. Standards-based core network services and certified web-based applications enable healthcare providers, regional exchange initiatives, and health plans to implement patient-centric quality and efficiency initiatives across the care continuum. A suite of optional applications leverage the comprehensive longitudinal patient health information in HIEBus™ to drive clinical integration, care coordination, real time dashboards, medication reconciliation, disease surveillance, advanced analytics, and multi-center observational data research. For more information, go to http://careevolution.com/.