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IMS Health AppScript Now Available to Healthcare Professionals on QuantiaMD
[May 27, 2015]

IMS Health AppScript Now Available to Healthcare Professionals on QuantiaMD


Quantia, 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."

About AppScript
AppScript™ is the leading discovery and distribution platform for mobile health technologies. The AppScript team has curated and characterized thousands of mobile healthcare apps, hundreds of connected devices, and millions of pieces of educational content by condition and stage of the patient journey. Each mobile health technology is assessed using the company's proprietary IMS Health AppScript Score, which ranks apps and devices based on six primary metrics: functionality, professional reviews, patient reviews, endorsements, developer trust ratings and clinical ratings. AppScript enables any healthcare professional to securely prescribe, track and reconcile mobile health content prescribed to patients and caregivers. Learn more at http://www.appscript.net.


About IMS Health
IMS Health is a leading global information and technology services company providing clients in the healthcare industry with comprehensive solutions to measure and improve their performance. End-to-end proprietary applications and configurable solutions connect 10+ petabytes of complex healthcare data through the IMS One™ cloud platform, providing comprehensive insights into diseases, treatments, costs and outcomes. The company's 15,000 employees blend global consistency and local market knowledge across 100 countries to help clients run their operations more efficiently. Customers include pharmaceutical, consumer health and medical device manufacturers and distributors, providers, payers, government agencies, policymakers, researchers and the financial community.

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.

About Quantia, Inc.
Quantia is on a mission to nurture the wisdom of the physician community - and tap into it to deliver better care. Every day, our membership of over 225,000 physicians (about one in three nationwide) visits the award-winning web and mobile community QuantiaMD to learn from top experts and collaborate on a wide range of topics. Our blend of expert-led content, gamification, and social framework creates an environment physicians want to explore, serving up high quality interactions that inspire change. Health systems and life sciences organizations use this platform to boost engagement among physicians, improving performance and delivering higher quality, more consistent care. Visit quantia-inc.com for more information.


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