Definitive Healthcare, a data analytics and business intelligence company, has acquired the data services business and assets of HIMSS Analytics, the organizations announced today.
The purchase includes the Logic, Predict, Analyze and custom research products from HIMSS Analytics, which is commonly known as the data and research arm of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
According to Definitive officials, the acquisition builds on the company’s “articulated growth strategy to deliver the most reliable and consistent view of healthcare data and analytics available in the market.”
Definitive Healthcare will immediately begin integrating the datasets and platform functionality into a single source of truth, their executives attest. The new offering will aim to include improved coverage of IT purchasing intelligence with access to years of proposals and executed contracts, enabling transparency and efficiency in the development of commercial strategies.
Broadly, Definitive Healthcare is a provider of data and intelligence on hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers. Its product suite its product suite provides comprehensive data on 8,800 hospitals, 150,000 physician groups, 1 million physicians, 10,000 ambulatory surgery centers, 14,000 imaging centers, 86,000 long-term care facilities, and 1,400 ACOs and HIEs, according to officials.
Together, Definitive Healthcare and HIMSS Analytics have more than 20 years of experience in data collection through exclusive methodologies.
“HIMSS Analytics has developed an extraordinarily powerful dataset including technology install data and purchasing contracts among other leading intelligence that, when combined with Definitive Healthcare’s proprietary healthcare provider data, will create a truly best-in-class solution for our client base,” Jason Krantz, founder and CEO of Definitive Healthcare, said in a statement.
