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SOLUTION BRIEF Comprehensive analysis to help organizations shape smart business strategies

The IBM® Market Expert® Get insight into your local market solution can help you: In today’s healthcare environment, we believe –– Quantify market volume and hospitals and health systems need current, market position by service and reliable and relevant information about their site of care local markets to help them make sound business ––Anticipate service decisions. But collecting and processing this development opportunities complex data requires time and resources—two competitively commodities many organizations can’t afford to –– Guide appropriate capital spare. budgeting, investment and resource allocation decisions The Market Expert strategic planning solution –– Reduce time spent gathering from IBM® Health™, is a comprehensive, and formatting data web-based tool that is designed to make it quick –– Streamline the planning and easy to capture, report and analyze your process market data.

Results Market Expert combines public data with proprietary Watson Health research data to Simple-to-use mapping help strategic planners better understand and interface anticipate healthcare needs and buying habits within a community. Through both standard Custom configuration reports and customizable queries, it provides and analysis a wealth of information about competitive position, emerging market trends, consumer Presentation-ready characteristics and potential business impacts documents to support you in making informed strategic decisions.

Watson Health © IBM Corporation 2018 Visualize your opportunities Support more informed decision-making to help grow your business Mapping is a critical component of your planning process. The mapping function in Market Expert Market Expert provides detailed analyses utilizes Esri®, one of the leading providers of of historic and projected market and facility geographic information systems (GIS) technology. patient volume and offers insight into physician This allows you to see greater context of the area demand, disease prevalence and health status. surrounding your selected market, including more detail around landmarks and streets. Plus, The market intelligence delivered via Market its flexibility provides more options for thematic Expert uses advanced methodologies to data displays. identify characteristics and local variations in utilization and practice patterns and is backed Quickly identify high-volume or high-growth ZIP codes in relation to by comprehensive data and validation studies. current or targeted locations within a given service area or radius. To with creating forecasting models, norms and benchmarks, outpatient analysis is powered by one of the largest datasets in the industry. In 2015, this dataset represented more than 400 million claims. This includes the IBM® MarketScan® Research , which in 2015 contained the claims experience of more than 24 million different patients.

Market Expert also incorporates: ––Information from the Watson Health PULSE™ Healthcare Survey, which reports on the health behaviors, utilization, health status and attitudes of more than 80,000 US households ––Comprehensive, local, sociodemographic and lifestyle data from the Claritas PRIZM® Premier , available at multiple levels of geography

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