Kantar Health

The consulting company Kantar Health provides analytics of data from researches in the field of sciences about lives and also medicine.

History

2020: Cerner purchased Kantar Health

In the middle of December, 2020 the ERP-sistemy developer for medicine of Cerner purchased consulting company Kantar Health (enters into the Kantar group) for $375 million. The buyer is going to use information obtained within the transaction for increase in security, efficiency and effectiveness of clinical trials in pharmaceutics and health care in general.

The syndicated information products Kantar Health, including CancerMPact, Claritis, National Health & Wellness Survey and also its extensive experience in the field of oncology and rare diseases, use all leading medicobiological companies. According to Cerner, the annual income of Kantar Health is more than $150 million.

Cerner purchased Kantar Health

It is expected that this acquisition will allow client consortium Cerner's Learning Health Network to interact with the scientific data used in the financed researches directly. Cerner's Learning Health Network offers health care systems free access to network of the depersonalized resource data. The purpose of the company - to advance research initiatives and to give an income acquisition opportunity at the expense of the financed researches conducted in the field of biology.

Besides, it is expected that merge of Cerner and Kantar Health will provide bilateral cooperation between service providers and pharmaceutical industry so researchers will be able to generate the ideas and to use the differentiated resources of the most difficult questions of clinical trials given for the solution.

We are proud of the heritage and reputation of consultants of world leading manufacturers of medicobiological products. We are glad to start the next stage in cooperation with Cerner, - the CEO of Kantar Health Lynnette Cooke said.[1]

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