Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and business performance. It is built on the strength of leading healthcare brands including Medstat, MercuryMD, Micromedex, PDR, and Solucient. Through these offerings, Thomson Healthcare provides the solutions, information, insight, and analysis its customers need to manage healthcare cost, quality, market positioning, and enterprise growth.

The company’s solutions are comprised of comprehensive healthcare databases, analytics, professional services, and research services to help professionals make better decisions faster. Thomson Healthcare offers business solutions for clinicians, hospitals and healthcare providers, employers, health plans, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies.

Organizations across the healthcare industry rely on Thomson Healthcare to diagnose and treat patients anywhere at anytime; improve clinical, financial, and operational performance; and develop sound growth plans and effective marketing strategies. Thomson Healthcare also assists its customers in designing effective benefits plans, targeting and evaluating preventative medicine programs, structuring disease management programs, improving access to care, and stewarding government dollars.

Through its legacy brands, Thomson Healthcare has been a trusted partner to healthcare decision makers, delivering reliable and innovative solutions since 1944 — longer than any other company in the industry. Professionals and stakeholders from every facet of healthcare use Thomson Healthcare products and services to understand markets, access medical and drug information, manage costs, and improve the quality of healthcare.

Thomson Healthcare is part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), a worldwide provider of value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of healthcare, law, tax, accounting, scientific research, and financial services. In 2007, Thomson renamed its healthcare assets under the combined name of Thomson Healthcare. For more information, visit www.thomson.com.