Truven Health

Truven Health is a healthcare data and analytics business best known for real-world data, claims and benchmarking assets, and clinical decision support products used by payers, employers, providers, government agencies, and life sciences companies. The business originated as Truven Health Analytics and was acquired by IBM in 2016 for approximately $2.6 billion, later becoming part of IBM Watson Health and then Merative. Today the Truven brand continues within Merative, where it supports healthcare analytics, price transparency, employer and payer decision support, and life sciences research through products such as MarketScan and related analytics offerings. Unlike a drug developer, Truven is primarily a commercial healthcare information and software company rather than a therapeutics company. Its core value lies in curated healthcare datasets, benchmarking methodologies, and analytics used for care management, health economics, outcomes research, and operational performance improvement.