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Unlocking Strategic Growth with Market Intelligence: How Hospitals Can Win Outside Their Walls
Melanie Verburg-Williams, Associate Director of Marketing, Health System Solutions
Sep 09, 2025

In today’s competitive healthcare landscape, growth isn’t just about expanding services, it’s about expanding insight. For strategy and business development leaders at hospitals and health systems, the ability to understand patient care demand beyond your current footprint is no longer a luxury. It’s a necessity.

IQVIA’s Market Strategy Solution (MSS) empowers provider organizations to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions by delivering unparalleled visibility into market dynamics, patient density, and payer trends across geographies.


Why Traditional Market Views Fall Short

Hospitals often struggle with:

  • Limited visibility into target markets
  • Uncertainty about where patients are receiving care
  • Incomplete data on treatment conditions by geography
  • Gaps in understanding managed care and payer financial trends

These blind spots can stall strategic initiatives, misalign resource allocation, and leave growth opportunities untapped.


MSS: A Data-Driven Advantage

IQVIA’s MSS closes these gaps with two powerful components:

  • Market Strategy Data Extract (MSDE): A flat-file dataset delivered via SFTP, S3, or Snowflake, offering deep claims and patient-level insights.
  • Market Strategy Analytics Suite (MSAS): A SaaS-hosted dashboard experience that visualizes trends, behaviors, and activities at the geographic level.

Together, they provide a panoramic view of the healthcare ecosystem—beyond your walls.


Value-First Outcomes for Strategy Leaders

Here’s how MSS delivers measurable value:

What You Need What MSS Provides
Access to market data Expanded view of claims activity to drive growth
Analyze market trends Understand impact from procedures, claims, and managed care activity by geography
Understand patient density Optimize planning with visibility across service lines and coverage
Identify behavioral trends Leverage financial insights to anticipate provider and patient actions
Close payer data gaps Analyze trends across all U.S. payer types with IQVIA’s Managed Care Universe

Powered by IQVIA’s Health Information Ecosystem

With access to:

  • 1.6B remittance claims
  • 10.8M healthcare professionals
  • 751K healthcare organizations
  • 300M anonymized patients
  • 90% of retail Rx claims

MSS is built on the most comprehensive healthcare data foundation in the industry.


Strategic Planning Starts with Strategic Intelligence

Whether you're evaluating new markets, refining service line strategies, or navigating payer dynamics, MSS equips you with the intelligence to act decisively.

Let’s talk about how IQVIA can help your health system grow smarter. Contact us today.

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