Pharmaceutical companies are facing significant pressures to reduce costs while growing or maintaining product growth where price pressures and access barriers are increasing significantly
To help our clients achieve maximum success, IMS offers Healthcare Relational Services (HCRS), the most comprehensive and accurate reference data set that serves as the foundation to identify, quantify and operationalize commercial strategies across the U.S. healthcare delivery system. HCRS supports informed business decision-making to optimize commercial effectiveness and maximize growth across the healthcare industry.
The offering includes Healthcare Professional Services (HCP) and Healthcare Organization Services (HCOS).
In HCOS, IMS has leveraged the market’s best knowledge-base of healthcare professionals, their locations, addresses and profiles to help clients gain the greatest understanding of physician-to-organization and organization-to-organization relationships. HCOS provides comprehensive, timely reference information about hospitals, medical groups, long-term care facilities, outpatient surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers and home-health agencies, including 200,000-plus integrated links to de-identified data (DDD) shipping locations and more than 2 million professional affiliations integrated with Xponent for prescribing transactions.
Comprised of more than 500,000 organizations in over 145 different classes of trade, HCOS provides profile details about healthcare delivery sites, their purchasing and contracting relationship to a corporate parent and buying organization, and their affiliated professionals.
HCOS captures the relational hierarchy to reflect accurately the structure of the U.S. healthcare delivery system.
