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IMS Health AppScript Now Available to Healthcare Professionals on QuantiaMDQuantia, Inc., the Physician Engagement Platform, and IMS Health, a leading global provider of information and technology services to the healthcare and life sciences industries, today announced the immediate availability of AppScript via Quantia's web and mobile physician community, QuantiaMD, which counts more than one-third of all U.S. physicians as members. AppScript is a mobile health discovery and distribution platform that helps physicians and other healthcare professionals easily evaluate, select and prescribe the right mobile health applications, connected devices, and educational content for use by patients and caregivers. QuantiaMD is an award-winning web and mobile community where 225,000 physician members learn from experts and collaborate with peers to improve the quality of health care. The company's Physician Engagement Platform taps into this established community to help hospitals and health systems improve collaboration among their physicians and meet a variety of clinical, operational, and financial objectives. Today, 34% of U.S. physicians are registered on QuantiaMD, with the average site visit spanning 20 minutes. This partnership with AppScript offers physician members a convenient way to add mobile health tools to their practice and effect behavior change. "QuantiaMD is designed to help physicians make better clinical decisions for their patients," said Dan Malloy, executive vice president of Quantia. "We are thrilled to be partnering with AppScript, which will offer our active physician community easy access to a suite of over 65000 healthcare-specific apps, backed by an organization they can trust. We believe members of our physician community - over half of which visit QuantiaMD from a mobile device - will understand and appreciate the value AppScript will bring to their practice, and to the health of the patients they serve." "As the largest social learning and collaboration platform for physicians, QuantiaMD is a perfect match for AppScript," said Matt Tindall, general manager, Consumer Solutions, IMS Health. "Changing physician practice behaviors requires collaboration, education, technology standards and quality measures, and that's what IMS Health and QuantiaMD are bringing to healthcare professionals under this collaboration. With AppScript, QuantiaMD members can deliver a digital prescription to their patient's pocket or wrist in 20 seconds or less. We are simplifying an otherwise complex mobile health market for physicians and patients."
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About IMS Health As a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy, IMS Health uses anonymous healthcare data to deliver critical, real-world disease and treatment insights. These insights help biotech and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders to identify unmet treatment needs and understand the effectiveness and value of pharmaceutical products in improving overall health outcomes. Additional information is available at www.imshealth.com.
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