Alpine Data and eviCore Healthcare Win 2015 Ventana Research Leadership Award


SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 4, 2015) - Alpine Data today announced that the company and its customer eviCore healthcare have been honored as the winner of the 2015 Ventana Research Leadership Award for Predictive Analytics. Ventana Research analysts awarded Alpine Data and eviCore with the Leadership Award based on the merit of their work to optimize eviCore decision making in securing the best possible healthcare outcomes for its clients and patients. This is the second time Ventana Research has recognized Alpine Data for leadership in Predictive Analytics. In 2014, Alpine Data won the Ventana Research Technology Innovation Award for Predictive Analytics.

eviCore is a leading provider of medical benefits management solutions, serving more than 97 million insured members and processing over millions of patient transactions every month. In an effort to achieve more efficient processes for the authorization of clinical procedures, eviCore looked to better leverage the constant influx of data the company dealt with daily. By using Alpine Data's advanced predictive analytics, business analysts at eviCore are able to more efficiently develop and deploy analytical models into their business workflows to improve their product delivery. To learn more about eviCore's collaboration with Alpine, visit http://alpinedata.com/case_study-healthcare-analytics/

"Alpine enables us to effectively operationalize analytics throughout our organization, so we can hand the business back to our business people," said Matthew Cunningham, Executive Vice President at eviCore healthcare. "With Alpine, we significantly reduce the analytic life cycle and improve our ability to unlock the power of our data within the business environment."

"Congrats to eviCore and Matthew Cunningham for its Leadership Award and its use of predictive analytics technology from Alpine Data that enables data science to be applied to business processes for optimizing best possible outcomes," said Mark Smith, CEO & Chief Research Officer of Ventana Research. "Alpine Data should be congratulated for its work with eviCore and enabling them to meet its advanced analytics needs through a simple but sophisticated approach."

"eviCore's use of Alpine is another sign of the critical shift that's happening across industries," said Joe Otto, CEO, Alpine Data. "The companies who will win the war of data are those that operationalize data science and put insights into business workflows for business people. That's what this revolution in data is all about."

About the Ventana Research Leadership Awards
The 2015 Ventana Research Leadership Awards recognize individuals and organizations that have advanced business leadership by effectively utilizing their people, processes, information and technology to achieve the best outcomes. The Leadership Awards showcase not only organizations but also the leaders and pioneers who have contributed to their organizations' successes. These practitioners exemplify the fact that delivering business success requires the successful efforts of a team guided by strong, visionary, effective leadership.

The awards are judged by the analysts at Ventana Research, an industry-renowned research team with hundreds of years of experience in business and technology. The team evaluated each submission to assess the organization's use of people, processes, information and technology, the best practices it developed, and the project's business impacts on the organization in 2014 and 2015 as well as the projected value in 2016.

About eviCore healthcare
eviCore healthcare offers proven, diversified medical benefit management solutions that help clients reduce costs while increasing quality of care for their members. The company provides these solutions to managed care organizations and risk-bearing provider organizations serving commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid populations. Powered by a team of specialized medical professional resources, extensive evidence-based guidelines, and advanced technologies, the company supports clients by ensuring the right evidence-based care is delivered at the right time to the right patient at the right site of care. Flexible medical benefit management solutions are offered in: Diagnostic Testing and Imaging; Cardiology; Comprehensive Musculoskeletal and Pain Management; Medical and Radiation Oncology; Sleep Services; Lab Management; Specialty Drugs; and Post-Acute Care (including participating in the CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative). eviCore is proud to help over 97 million Americans receive higher quality, lower cost healthcare. For more information, please visit evicore.com.

About Alpine Data
Alpine Data enables organizations to create a culture of analytics at scale by providing the most comprehensive platform for Advanced Analytics. Using Alpine, organizations can manage the entire analytic lifecycle in one environment, and enable people to build, deploy and consume analytic applications and insights in an agile and collaborative manner. Leaders in all industries, from Financial Services to Healthcare, use Alpine Chorus to outsmart their competition. Find out more at: www.alpinenow.com.

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