Sponsor/Exhibitor List

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
It is the mission of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. We fulfill that mission by providing for effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health, and social services. Visit our website at www.hhs.gov.

PROMETHEUS Analytics
The PROMETHEUS Analytics are a state-of-the-art big data analysis system that generate transformative insights for health plans, health systems and self-insured employers. The unique combination of embedded metadata tags pulls out information on the misuse, overuse and underuse that characterizes healthcare today, and leads providers and payers to actionable strategies to improve quality and affordability. The leading edge adjustments for patient severity of illness and demographics generates adjusted episode costs that can be used to compare provider performance and power bundled payment programs. The flexible architecture allows for customizing episode of care and bundle definitions, creating the most complete analytics tool on the market today. More information can be found at www.hci3.org.

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Imagine the power of 200,000 people in 157 countries with a common purpose... building relationships that create value for you and your business. This is who PwC is. We work with you to build the value you are looking for.

PwC's healthcare consulting focuses on health services (payer and provider), pharmaceutical and life sciences in both the public and private sectors, as well as new market entrants in our new health economy practice. This year, we're introducing DoubleJump Health™, the new consumer health accelerator from PwC. DoubleJump Health™ is dedicated to helping organizations speed the pace of innovation in person-centered health and medicine and bring breakthroughs to market more quickly.

Watson
Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing capability representing a new era in computing. The system, delivered through the cloud, analyzes high volumes of data, understands complex questions posed in natural language, and proposes evidence-based answers. Watson continuously learns, gaining in value and knowledge over time, from previous interactions. In April 2015, the company launched IBM Watson Health and the Watson Health Cloud platform. The new unit will help improve the ability of doctors, researchers and insurers to innovate by surfacing insights from the massive amount of personal health data being created and shared daily. The Watson Health Cloud allows this information to be de-identified, shared and combined with a dynamic and constantly growing aggregated view of clinical, research and social health data. For more information on IBM Watson, visit: ibm.com/watsonhealth.

For more information on IBM Watson Health, visit ibm.com/watsonhealth.

Aetna Foundation
The Aetna Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Aetna (NYSE: AET). Since 1980, Aetna and the Aetna Foundation have contributed nearly $500 million in grants and sponsorships. As a national health foundation, we promote wellness, health, and access to high-quality health care for everyone. This work is enhanced by the time and commitment of Aetna employees, who have volunteered over 4.2 million hours since 2003. For more information, visit www.aetnafoundation.org.

Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy's mission is to shape policy and practice with evidence and experience from the nation's largest private integrated health care delivery and financing organization. Founded in 1999, the Institute draws on experts from a variety of backgrounds – physicians and other health care providers, clinical and health services researchers, public health professionals, economists, policy analysts, and communications experts.

The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy –

• Proactively identifies and analyzes significant national health policy issues;
• Produces customized policy reports for a variety of audiences;
• Studies policy approaches in countries facing challenges similar to those in the United States;
• Connects health care experts, advisers, policymakers and providers through national and international networks, publications and conferences;
• Collaborates with other organizations to shape and influence policy.

PCORI
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent, non-profit organization authorized by Congress to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better-informed healthcare decisions. PCORI's work is continuously guided by input from a broad range of healthcare stakeholders to see that its research is timely, useful, and addresses outcomes that matter to patients. For more information visit www.PCORI.org.

RowdMap
An Ernst and Young EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® winner, RowdMap's Risk-Readiness® benchmarks help health plans, physician groups, and hospital systems identify, quantify, and reduce no-value care that physicians deliver -- a central tenet of successful pay-for-value programs. For more information visit www.RowdMap.com.

Surescripts
Surescripts is committed to unleashing the potential of American healthcare by creating a more connected and collaborative healthcare system. Our nationwide health information network connects doctor's offices, hospitals, pharmacists, and health plans through an integrated and technology neutral platform. Surescripts has built unique and powerful assets that differentiate us from others: We have a directory of more than 800,000 providers nationwide. Our master patient index includes benefit and eligibility data on more than 270 million insured lives in the U.S. We are one of only 105 U.S. companies certified for the highest level of information security (ISO 27001). This means that users can send and receive a broad range of information, all from a single, secure point of connectivity. For more information, go to www.surescripts.com and follow us at twitter.com/surescripts.

ABILITY Network
ABILITY Network is a leading healthcare information technology company helping providers and payers simplify the administrative and clinical complexities of healthcare through innovative applications and data analytics. Through the use of ABILITY services, our customers improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase cash flow and more effectively manage their business operations.

For more information visit www.abilitynetwork.com.

American Medical Association (AMA)
The American Medical Association seeks to help people live longer, healthier lives. By bringing bold initiatives and visionary partners together, the AMA’s core work strives to improve the health of the nation by reinventing medical education, improving health outcomes, and enhancing practice efficiency and professional satisfaction. For the AMA, better delivery of care means delivering real-life impact to meet the changing needs of America’s patients and physicians. For more information visit www.ama-assn.org.

Esri
Esri was founded in 1969 to help solve some of the world’s largest problems. From natural disasters to humanitarian crisis, the important work our users do will always be the focus of what we do. We develop GIS technology that makes a difference in society.

Today, our confidence in GIS is built on the belief that geography matters – it connects our many cultures and societies and influences our way of life. GIS leverages geographic insight to ensure better communication and collaboration.

Explore our website to discover how our customers have obtained the geographic advantage by using Esri software to address health, social, economic, and environmental concerns at local, regional, national, and global scales. We hope you will be inspired to join the Esri community in using GIS to create a better and healthier world.

For more information visit www.esri.com.

Midas+, a Xerox Company
Founded as MIDS, Inc. in 1987, Midas+, a Xerox Company was established as a pioneer in quality management in the acute care setting. Today, Midas+, a Xerox Company continues to innovate and has built integrated care management solutions, advanced analytics and population health capabilities. Our vision is to provide a holistic solution platform for healthcare organizations looking to leverage the advantages of a single vendor while transforming strategic performance management capabilities. Our success is found through high retention rates and continued client satisfaction. For more information visit www.midasplus.com.

Milibank Memorial Fund
The Milbank Memorial Fund is an endowed operating foundation that works to improve the health of populations by connecting leaders and decision makers with the best available evidence and experience. Founded in 1905, the Fund engages in nonpartisan analysis, collaboration, and communication on significant issues in health policy. It does this work by publishing high-quality, evidence-based reports, books, and The Milbank Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal of population health and health policy; convening state health policy decision makers on issues they identify as important to population health; and building communities of health policymakers to enhance their effectiveness. www.milbank.org.

OPTUM
Optum is a leading health services and innovation company dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 100,000 people worldwide, Optum combines technology, data and expertise to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care. Optum uniquely collaborates with all participants in health care, connecting them with a shared focus on creating a healthier world. Hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, employers, health plans, government agencies and life sciences companies rely on Optum services and solutions to solve their most complex challenges and meet the growing needs of the people and communities they serve. For more information visit www.Optum.com.

Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology for more than 100 years. We partner with clients to solve their toughest challenges, many in today’s world of big data and analytics. From our portfolio of data services and solutions (http://www.boozallen.com/consulting/strategic-innovation/nextgen-analytics-data-science), we will showcase three – SailfishTM (http://www.boozallen.com/sailfish), Project Jellyfish (http://projectjellyfish.org/), and HealthMap by our subsidiary Epidemico (http://epidemico.com/). These solutions pair our domain expertise from public and private health clients with leading edge technology to help our clients take advantage of data to derive transformative insights.

With international headquarters in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen Hamilton employs more than 22,500 people globally, and had revenue of $5.27 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2015. To learn more about Booz Allen visit www.boozallen.com. (NYSE: BAH)

Castlight Health
Our mission is to empower people to make the best choices for their health and to help companies make the most of their health benefits. We offer a health benefits platform that engages employees to make better healthcare decisions and guide them to the right program, care, and provider. The platform also enables benefit leaders to communicate and measure their programs while driving employee engagement with targeted, relevant communications. Castlight has partnered with more than 190 customers, spanning millions of lives, to improve healthcare outcomes, lower costs, and increase benefits satisfaction. For more information visit www.CastlightHealth.com.

Clover Health
Clover Health is reinventing the health insurance model by using its data and analytics platform to identify at-risk members and intervene with its care management team to proactively improve health outcomes, fill gaps in care and reduce avoidable costs. Built with technology at its core, Clover aggregates and structures data from a wide range of sources – from primary care providers and lab results, to customer service interactions and home visits – for continuous, real-time monitoring. For more information visit www.CloverHealth.com.

Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
Those of us in the Davis Wright Tremaine health care practice group devote nearly all of our time to industry-specific matters. This allows us to develop niche practices within the field that serve needs unique to the health care market. We also understand the business issues and regulatory developments that affect health care delivery and compliance, and as a unified team we can match the attorney with the niche expertise that best addresses client needs. For more information visit our website at www.DWT.com.

Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds provides a platform that delivers improved clinical outcomes for patients while reducing care delivery inefficiencies. It does this through an end-to-end solution that connects patients with highly specialized care that is informed by the latest and best practices – preventing and correcting misdiagnoses, unnecessary and failed treatments. Founded in 2011, Grand Rounds helps restore individual health and quality of life, and benefits employers by facilitating decreased health care cost and increased employee productivity. For more information, please visit grandrounds.com.

Healthcare Leadership Council
The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) is a coalition of chief executives from all disciplines within American healthcare. It is the exclusive forum for the nation's healthcare leaders to jointly develop policies, plans, and programs to achieve their vision of a 21st century health system that makes affordable, high-quality care accessible to all Americans. Members of HLC--hospitals, academic health centers, health plans, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, biotech firms, health product distributors, pharmacies, post-acute care providers, and information technology companies--advocate measures to increase the quality and efficiency of healthcare by emphasizing wellness and prevention, care coordination, and the use of evidence-based medicine, while utilizing consumer choice and competition to enhance value. For more information visit www.hlc.org.

HealthPocket
HealthPocket is a leading website that compares and ranks the health plans available in all areas of the country and provides valuable research about Obamacare, Medicare, and other types of health insurance available to consumers. HealthPocket is neither a broker nor an insurance company and is committed to providing unbiased information to help consumers make more informed insurance decisions. For more information visit www.HealthPocket.com.

Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
In health care, there's no time to waste. There are diseases to be treated, medicines to be developed, and lives to be enhanced and transformed.

At the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, we focus on some of the most devastating diseases and the most complex medical challenges of our time, across the following five therapeutic areas:

• Cardiovascular and Metabolism
• Immunology
• Infectious Diseases and Vaccines
• Neuroscience
• Oncology

Mana Health
Mana Health helps data flow in healthcare. Our ManaCloud platform supports needs for interoperability and data unification to support efficient deployment of advanced healthcare applications. Our HIPAA-compliant cloud unifies patient data from EHRs, apps, and devices and supports access through a robust API. With our solution, we enable health organizations to address major issues across patient engagement, population health, and chronic condition management. In addition, we offer an integrated web and mobile portal to support MU-2 requirements for patient access. Our products are supported by robust developer tools, a sandbox environment, and Mana Health's support team in order to help customers reduce their costs and increase their pace of innovation. Our solutions are deployed to major healthcare clients reaching over 200 hospitals and millions of patients.

For more information visit www.manahealth.com.

National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC)
The National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC) is a health policy research organization dedicated to the advancement of good evidence and science, and to fostering an environment in the United States that supports medical innovation.

Founded in 1953 and supported by the nation's major research-based biopharmaceutical companies, NPC focuses on research development, information dissemination, and education of the critical issues of evidence, innovation and value of medicines for patients. For more information, visit www.npcnow.org and follow us on Twitter @npcnow.

Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC (Noridian)
Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC (Noridian), a wholly owned subsidiary of Noridian Mutual Insurance Company, delivers innovative business solutions for government agencies to reduce cost and enhance value in the health care industry. Since 1966, Noridian has served as a government claims contractor for Medicare. Today Noridian serves 12.4 million beneficiaries and 300,000 health care providers nationally. Noridian is the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for Medicare Parts A/B for Jurisdictions E and F, the Durable Medical Equipment (DME) MAC for Jurisdictions A and D. Noridian is also a Medicaid administrator for the state of Iowa, holds the national Pricing Data Analysis and Coding contract for DME, and performs clinical reviews for predictive modeling in support of the Michigan Medicaid program. The company currently employs more than 1,700 individuals across the United States. Noridian provides business processing services nationwide with staff located throughout the country. For more information, visit www.noridiansolutions.com.

Pfizer
At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products. Our global portfolio includes medicines and vaccines as well as many of the world's best-known consumer health care products. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with health care providers, governments and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 150 years, Pfizer has worked to make a difference for all who rely on us.

For more information visit www.pfizer.com.

Prominence
Prominence advises the nation's leading healthcare organizations as they work to solve their toughest challenges. Our team has industry leading skills in:

• Advanced Analytics – Our analytics suite consists dozens of production-ready, pre-built solutions that can solve complex problems in 30-45 days. These solutions are architected to scale to the enterprise and ensure you're always prepared to answer the next question.
• Strategic Planning – We have a keen aptitude for unveiling bottlenecks, providing insight, implementing process, and strengthening leaders within your organization. This has led to our successful collaboration with the nation's foremost healthcare organizations, including 4 of the top 7 academic medical institutions.
• IT Deployment – Whether you're implementing a new module for your EHR, optimizing workflows, or placing a novel piece of technology into production, we have an advisor with that experience and knowledge.

Sanofi
For Sanofi, a global leader in life sciences, promoting an integrated approach that spans the care continuum, from prevention to detection, early diagnosis, treatment, care and disease management, we believe it is critical to build robust healthcare systems that ensure equitable access for all.

In the context of a changing world -from climate issues to longer life expectancy- the world's population is now facing new health challenges, such as age-related, environment-related and chronic diseases. Willing and passionate to contribute to improving access to healthcare across the globe, Sanofi's teams strive to transform scientific innovations into therapeutic solutions that make a difference to patients' daily lives.

For more information visit www.sanofi.com.

Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP is a premier law firm with an internationally recognized life sciences practice. Our lawyers regularly advise the most prominent consumer technology companies in the world, supporting their efforts to explore the use of mobile tools, wearable consumer devices, wellness products and innovative software to improve healthcare. We are experienced in devising and implementing strategies to manage risks associated with the development and commercialization of novel platforms that, while not intended for clinical therapeutic use, might be put to such use. Our privacy and data security team also regularly advises pharmaceutical, device and healthcare companies in relation to data protection, privacy and information security matters. Sidley recently was named one of Law360's "Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year" and "Health Practice Groups of the Year" for 2015. For more information visit www.Sidley.com.

Signet Accel
At Signet Accel, it's our mission to bring true interoperability to healthcare that emboldens discovery at the bench and beyond--profoundly affecting the ability of investigators and clinicians to understand, treat, and cure.

Our Avec™ platform delivers true interoperability to healthcare. As the sole alternative to traditional, centralized data management solutions, Avec™ delivers the industry's only purpose-built commercial federated data integration platform, developed and refined over 12 years at The Ohio State University. Our software products and services power the work of consortia, institutions, and health professionals with unmatched security, sharing capability and speed of discovery--advancing academic research, achieving meaningful use objectives, and enabling the continuum of care.

We know this isn't easy. It takes a diversity of skills--not unlike the diversity of data we work with--and we've assembled a team of expert technologists, researchers, and engineers with a shared focus and depth of experience in healthcare. Visit us at www.signetaccel.com for more information.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. For more information visit www.ahrq.gov or call 301.427.1364.

Carahsoft
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider, supporting an extensive ecosystem of manufacturers, value-added resellers, system integrators, and consulting partners committed to helping government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best value. As a top-ranked, award-winning GSA Schedule 70 Contract holder, Carahsoft proactively markets, sells and distributes VMware, Symantec, EMC, Adobe, F5 Networks, Open Source, HPE Software, SAP, and Innovative and Intelligence products and services, among others.

Carahsoft provides an innovative portfolio of leading healthcare technology solutions aimed at improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system. Our health IT solutions improve health care quality, increase productivity, reduce health care costs, increase administrative efficiencies and healthcare work processes, decrease paperwork and unproductive or idle work time, extend real-time communications of health informatics among health care professionals; and expand access to affordable care.

For more information, visit www.carahsoft.com.

CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse and Virtual Research Data Center
The CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) and Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. Developed and managed by New Wave and General Dynamics Health Solutions (contracted as NewWave-GDIT, LLC), healthcare management services include: database architecture, data access and dissemination, user applications, security, operations support, and data science analytical services. The CCW/VRDC serves as the primary source of Medicare and Medicaid research data, combining claims, assessment, and enrollment/eligibility data in a beneficiary-centric, longitudinal research environment. By enabling better access and data transparency for CMS data users, the CCW/VRDC promotes a better understanding of population health, quality of care, health services costs and utilization of services.

To learn more, visit www.ccwdata.org.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Qualified Entity Medicare Data Sharing Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Qualified Entity Medicare Data Sharing Program makes Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) claims data and Part D prescription drug event data available to “qualified entities” (QEs) to produce publicly available provider performance reports. Visit www.qemedicaredata.org and @QEMedicareData for more information.

CMS Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics
CMS is the federal agency that provides health care services for Americans enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP, enforces quality standards, and establishes payment policies. The Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics supports data collection and dissemination at CMS and efforts to help CMS better harness its vast data resources to drive higher quality, patient-centered care at a lower cost. It also conducts leading-edge research and analysis, as well as efforts to make its considerable data sets available to external researchers seeking to promote better understanding of health care in the United States.

For more information visit www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems.html.

Dataiku
Dataiku develops the most productive Predictive Services Development Platform for the whole data team - from beginner data analysts to expert data scientists. In this all-in-one platform called Data Science Studio (DSS), teams of data scientists, data analysts, and developers can collaboratively build and deploy end-to-end services that turn raw data into impacting predictions quickly. Whether you're trying to solve problems such as appointment no-shows, under or over staffing, lack of data interoperability, fraud detection, physician profiling, claim projection, care coordination and much more, DSS will help you build and run your own solutions. Visit www.dataiku.com for more information.

Doctor Evidence
Doctor Evidence is a leader in technological solutions for evidence-based medicine (EBM) with a mission to provide stakeholders across the healthcare spectrum with timely and reliable research evidence and quality analytics to inform the best clinical decisions. Since 2004, Doctor Evidence has been committed to advancing knowledge acceleration through the use of its advanced Digital Outcome Conversion (DOC™) integrated software platforms. The DRE platforms encompass all aspects of EBM work, from study identification/screening to digitization, ontology management, and final outputs including evidence tables, statistical analyses, grading, and more. Evidence from published clinical studies is digitized creating dynamically updatable and scientifically curated data hubs. Doctor Evidence recently launched GROWTH (Guideline and Research Organizations Worldwide for Transparency and Harmonization), a set of initiatives to facilitate collaborative stakeholder engagements encouraging high quality evidence-based knowledge to improve the health and wellbeing of patients worldwide.

For more information visit GROWTHevidence.com and drevidence.com.

etherFAX
Founded in 2009, etherFAX® offers a unique solution that extends existing fax server solutions to the cloud. By eliminating the need for costly network fax systems, such as fax boards and recurring telephony fees, etherFAX leverages the Internet to manage all business-critical fax communications. For more information, visit www.etherFAX.net.

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is an information technology services firm providing total solutions to government and corporate clients. The GDIT Health Solutions division provides a variety of health data management services, including database architecture, user applications, security, operations support, scientific and analytical services. NewWave-GDIT oversees the CMS Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) within the Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse which serves as a primary source of Medicare and Medicaid research data.

For more information visit www.ccwdata.org.

Health Affairs
Health Affairs, published monthly, is ranked as one of the top-cited, peer-reviewed journals in health care policy and health care sciences. For 35 years, Health Affairs has provided timely nonpartisan health policy research, analysis and commentary to inform and guide policy makers, healthcare executives, industry leaders, academics, opinion leaders, and the public. Its policy impact reaches around the globe as Health Affairs articles are cited by US administration officials and ministry of health leaders. Health Affairs content is available through multiple channels including the Journal in print, online, and now on iPad; Web First articles, Health Affairs Blog, Health Policy Briefs, Issue and Media Briefings, Event Videos, and Narrative Matters Podcasts. Individual and institutional subscriptions are available at www.healthaffairs.org.

HealthDataViz
HealthDataViz harnesses the best practices of data visualization to design and build dashboards, reports, and infographics exclusively for health and healthcare organizations. Expert in the science of how people see and understand data, we create visualizations that are clear and compelling using many software tools including Tableau®, SAS® Visual Analytics, and Qlik®. HDViewPrints™, turnkey analytic dashboards for ACOs, hospital systems, and providers, connect to your data using Tableau® so that you can see how you are doing with high-priority performance indicators including:

• Hospital Readmissions, LOS, Mortality and Morbidity
• Patient Experience
• Patient Access
• Care Transitions

HHS IDEA Lab
The ultimate goal of the IDEA Lab is a more modern and effective government that is responsive to the needs and challenges of our times. In 2013, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) established the IDEA Lab to improve how the Department delivers on its mission. This effort was started as a response to input from the workforce and public to promote advances in organizational management centered around three core beliefs:

• Every individual has the ability to improve the health and well-being of Americans;
• People are more powerful when working together; and
• There is a solution to every problem.

IMS Health Government Solutions
IMS Health is a leading global information and technology services company dedicated to improving healthcare performance by strengthening science and business results. We provide insights into diseases, treatments, costs and outcomes using end-to-end proprietary information, applications and configurable solutions to connect 10+ petabytes of complex healthcare data.

IMS provides a foundation of Real-World Data from expanding sources of anonymous patient-level data across geographies. We leverage innovative technologies and analytic advances to extract, analyze and visualize data quickly and effectively. We increase robustness and timeliness of relevant information, using our larger data sets and expertise in connecting disparate data sets.

IMS Health operates in over 100 countries and employs 15,000 individuals. Our 5,000+ clients include pharmaceutical, consumer health and medical device manufacturers and distributors, healthcare providers, payers, government agencies, policymakers, researchers and the financial community. Our uniquely rich insights support all functions, including R&D;, HEOR, drug safety and pharmaco-epidemiology.

For more information visit http://imshealth.com/en_US/segment-solutions/government-solutions.

KeepItSafe
KeepItSafe is a premium, white-glove service for online backup, disaster recovery and business continuity -- and one of the only global recovery providers awarded IS0 27001 certification for information security management.

We're on a mission to protect customers' data, 24/7, from anything -- natural disasters, cyber theft, human error, system corruption. If disaster does strike, we're there -- at a moment's notice -- to restore everything.

Our suite of backup and recovery solutions will protect your business's entire digital footprint -- and, should you ever lose any data, have you back up and running in no time.

KeepItSafe understands how vital your data is to your business, which is why we're so passionate about protecting it, with the highest levels of encryption and security -- day and night -- and why we guarantee you a full recovery, quickly, if you ever face a disaster.

For more information, please visit www.keepitsafe.com.

The Leapfrog Group
Founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization driving a movement for giant leaps forward in the quality and safety of American health care. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey collects and transparently reports hospital performance from over 1,700 hospitals throughout the country. Leapfrog data empowers purchasers to find the highest-value care and gives consumers the lifesaving information they need to make informed decisions. The Hospital Safety Score, Leapfrog's other main initiative, assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety, helping consumers protect themselves and their families from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections.

For more information visit www.leapfroggroup.org/.

Minitab
Healthcare is your calling. Providing tools that help you with quality improvement is ours. Minitab makes it easy to analyze your data, with an Assistant that guides you step-by-step. See why Via Christi Health, Akron Children's Hospital, UnitedHealth Group and thousands more rely on Minitab statistical software at www.minitab.com.

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides statistical information that guides actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS leads the way with accurate, relevant, and timely data.

For more information visit www.cdc.gov/nchs.

NHS England
For the fourth year running, a hand-picked delegation of UK companies will be showcasing solutions and services that are transforming the delivery of health and care. With its comprehensive National Health Service (the NHS), serving a diverse population across a range of care settings, the UK is uniquely positioned as a testbed of innovation and at the forefront of the growing digital health industry.

These small and medium-sized companies have been selected for their pioneering solutions, capable of translating well into the US market and their potential for investment under the US/UK MoU. From mobile apps to help patients proactively manage their own care, to pioneering clinical review software, their solutions are already supporting clinical practice to improve patient outcomes across the NHS in the UK. Visit the UK booth to find out more and explore the potential of these suppliers.

For more information visit www.england.nhs.uk and www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-trade-investment.

NORC
NORC at the University of Chicago is an independent research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analysis to guide critical programmatic, business, and policy decisions. Since 1941, NORC has conducted groundbreaking studies, created and applied innovative methods and tools, and advanced principles of scientific integrity and collaboration. Today, government, corporate, and nonprofit clients around the world partner with NORC to transform increasingly complex information into useful knowledge.

For more information visit www.NORC.org.

ODH
ODH, Inc. is an innovative healthcare technology solution company that leverages technology and clinical expertise to transform the delivery and economics of behavioral healthcare. ODH's flagship product, Mentrics™, is the leading edge behavioral healthcare population management technology platform. It is designed to improve the management of behavioral healthcare, network management and member care management. Mentrics aggregates healthcare data from multiple sources such as behavioral and physical medical services and prescription claims into a single platform. Using select IBM technologies, Mentrics' advanced data analytics assigns behavioral and physical health risk scores to each member, providing immediate actionable insights that alert care coordinators to treatment gaps or inconsistencies. Built specifically for managed care organizations that administer behavioral health benefits, Mentrics generates "scorecards" leading to improved network management and optimal patient care.

For more information visit www.ODHSolultions.com.

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) leads the federal government's efforts regarding the implementation and use of health information technology and nationwide health information exchange to improve health care. ONC is organizationally located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

For more information, please visit us at www.healthit.gov.

ResDAC
ResDAC, a CMS contractor located at the University of Minnesota, provides free assistance to researchers interested in using Medicare and/or Medicaid data. ResDAC staff provide individual assistance in understanding the strengths, weaknesses, and applications of Medicare and Medicaid data. ResDAC also provides in-person and online training courses on using Medicare and Medicaid data. For more information, visit www.resdac.org.

Socrata
Socrata is the global leader in software solutions that are designed exclusively for digital government. Socrata's cloud-based, SaaS solutions, supported by the Socrata Open Data Network and Socrata Partner Ecosystem, deliver unprecedented data-driven innovation and cost savings for hundreds of public-sector leaders and millions of their constituents worldwide. Learn more at www.socrata.com.

Softheon
Empowering the nation's first state health benefit exchange since 2008, Softheon's vision and strategic direction address healthcare payer, provider, and government agencies' goal of meeting Affordable Care Act (ACA) and exchange milestones. Softheon provides Exchange Integration, Direct Enrollment, Premium Billing & Payment, and Analytics solutions for insurance carriers of all sizes participating on the exchanges. Softheon's Marketplace Connector Cloud (MC2) has been trusted by health plans, in all 50 states, as an accelerated federal, state, and private exchange integration platform. Softheon MC2 is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution where insurers pay a one-time activation and ongoing PMPM fees for exchange members only, while eliminating most, if not all, risks associated with ACA enrollment compliance and other mandates.

For more info visit www.softheon.com.

Tableau
Tableau empowers healthcare organizations to see and understand the data driving patient outcomes and cost. Tableau features a simple drag-and-drop interface that gives anyone the ability to quickly create and share interactive visualizations of their data. Tableau's visualizations are easy to interact with from anywhere, including on a mobile device. Visit us at www.tableau.com for more information.

Thoroughbred Research Group
Thoroughbred Research Group is a full-service research firm specializing in healthcare quality data collection and patient experience (PXi) measurement. With extensive capabilities in mail, telephone, and online research methodologies, you benefit from our 35+ years of marketing research and data collection experience.

Thoroughbred is certified to conduct the HEDIS®1 CAHPS®2, Medicare Advantage CAHPS®, Prescription Drug CAHPS®, Health Outcomes Survey (HOS), QHP Enrollee Experience Survey, and the CAHPS® In-Center Hemodialysis surveys. As healthcare moves toward a retail environment and the healthcare consumer takes an increasing role about choices in his or her care, the reputation, or brand strength of every healthcare provider becomes critical to its favorability and success in the marketplace. Thoroughbred Research can help your organization.

Consultative. Trusted. Dependable. For more information, visit www.torinc.net.

1HEDIS® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
2CAHPS® is a registered trademark of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)