Merative has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Life Sciences R&D RWD/RWE for Data Platforms, Technology Solutions, and Consulting Services 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #US54122226, September 2026).
The IDC MarketScape evaluates technology vendors based on a comprehensive framework of qualitative and quantitative criteria, providing organizations with a structured approach to assessing software providers and their capabilities. The report is designed to help agencies identify solutions that align with their operational priorities, modernization strategies, and long-term technology investments.
MarketScan by Merative helps life sciences teams strengthen research with regulatory-grade, longitudinal closed-claims data trusted across healthcare research. With the scale, depth, and continuity to study utilization, outcomes, safety, treatment patterns, and costs over time, MarketScan supports stronger evidence generation across HEOR, epidemiology, and regulatory-focused research.
The MarketScan® Research Databases provide a robust foundation for real-world evidence generation, bringing together longitudinal, de-identified claims data that captures healthcare utilization, treatment patterns, outcomes, and costs across large populations in the United States. This depth and breadth help organizations evaluate patient journeys over time, examine variations in care, and better understand the clinical and economic impact of therapies, interventions, and benefit strategies.
Through the MarketScan Partner Ecosystem, clients can extend this trusted claims foundation with curated, fit-for-purpose data sources that add greater clinical and specialty detail to their analyses. By linking MarketScan data with complementary datasets such as electronic health records, laboratory and diagnostic results, chargemaster data, and other patient-level information collected across care settings, researchers can address more complex questions with greater precision and confidence.
Together, MarketScan’s data assets, analytic expertise, and ecosystem of collaborators help healthcare stakeholders generate actionable insights that support better decision-making across the healthcare landscape. From life sciences organizations evaluating real-world outcomes to payers and employers seeking to manage cost, quality, and population health, MarketScan helps organizations turn complex healthcare data into evidence that can drive meaningful clinical and financial outcomes.
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About IDC MarketScape:
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.