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Life sciences solutions: Turning evidence into action

We connect data. We connect ideas. We connect the life sciences industry to the rest of the health care ecosystem to catalyze innovation and impact.

The need for trusted, actionable evidence has never been greater

With our robust life sciences solutions, we can help you navigate the interdependencies and conflicting incentives within the current health care ecosystem.

Generate evidence

Unlock insights from the industry’s largest repository of longitudinal, linked real-world data.

Elevate your value story

Engage our experts to anticipate and address the demands of payers, providers, patients and regulators throughout the product lifecycle.

Put theory into practice

Leverage our enterprise connections across all sectors of health care to accelerate clinical development and improve population health.

What’s shaping your strategies in 2025?

While tackling your biggest business challenges remains key, Advisory Board and Optum Life Sciences experts break down the 3 healthcare trends to inform your planning throughout the year and beyond.

Our latest e-book provides an in-depth look into these trends and the implications for the life sciences industry. Read more about: the promise and limitations of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning (ML), areas where the life sciences industry can lead to make progress in health equity, and why it’s time to prioritize elevating the patient voice.

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Explore our life sciences solutions

Our data and insights help to accelerate adoption to improve patients’ lives.

Design and Pilot Engagement Programs

Work with the Cross Optum team and take advantage of our connections to all parts of the health system.

Empower Commercial, Brand & Access Teams

CMM is a self-service, web-based reporting tool built on our proprietary data warehouse that gives a deeper understanding of product performance.

Engage Payers with Value-Based Contracts

Generate valuable evidence, leverage real-world data and analytics and track clinical outcomes over time.

Enhance Clinical Trial Design and Performance

Modernize your approach to protocol design and patient finding.

Gain a Truer Picture of Disease Prevalence

Optum Enlighten is a groundbreaking pharma intelligence platform that identifies disease prevalence in populations at a hyper-local level.

Generate Evidence with Real-World Data

Derive evidence from the unmatched depth and scale of our data assets.

Partner with Our Epidemiology Consultants

Advance public health and safety with our trusted experts and data.

Plan with Confidence to Surveil Infectious Diseases

With the Optum® Infectious Disease Platform, you can target the right audience at the right time with the right message using precise data.

Strengthen your value story with HEOR

Tap into our expertise in health economics and outcomes research.

Clinicogenomics for Greater Data Insights

Better understand diseases and drug development opportunities.

Analyst recognition

Optum continues to be a proven leader across a wide range of services and solutions.

Frost & Sullivan

Optum Life Sciences named Company of the Year

IDC MarketScape

Optum positioned as a leader

HFS Horizons

HFS named Optum an 'Enterprise Innovator’ in its 2023 Life Sciences Horizons report.

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