Press Releases

Archimedes, Inc. Collaborates with HHS and CMS to Provide Researchers and Software Developers Unprecedented Access to Health Data

San Francisco, CA – May 1, 2013 – Archimedes, Inc., a healthcare modeling and analytics company, announced today that it has begun collaborating with the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide unprecedented access to synthetic CMS claims data. More...

NCQA to Test Pioneering Way to Measure Quality, Foster Wider Use of Prevention Strategies

Washington, DC – Apr 9, 2013 – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced a new approach to measuring quality that will provide a more sensitive gauge of risk factors and make it possible to create clinically meaningful incentives for providers to improve disease prevention. More...

Archimedes, Inc. Expands Use of Big Data in Healthcare Modeling and Analytics

San Francisco, CA – Mar 27, 2013 – Archimedes, Inc., a healthcare modeling and analytics company, announced today that it is substantially expanding its modeling and analytics solutions. New product offerings and disease models will enable users to more quickly and easily access and analyze information related to their complex questions. Archimedes customers will be able to further enhance their modeling and analytic projects by integrating their own electronic health records (EHR), claims, clinical trial, and.. More...

Archimedes, Inc.'s IndiGO Tool Serves as Risk Engine for New Mobile App to Help Consumers Improve Heart Health

San Francisco, CA – Feb 14, 2013 – The Million Hearts™ initiative, a national public-private collaboration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, today announced the winner of its Risk Check Challenge to create a mobile app powered by Archimedes Inc.’s clinical-decision support tool, IndiGO. The winning mobile app, developed by Wisconsin’s Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, will help consumers assess their risk of heart attack or stroke and direct them to participating health screening locations in their community. More...

Five Innovators Selected as Finalists in Challenge to Develop App to Improve Blood Pressure Control, Cholesterol Management

Washington, DC – Dec 3, 2012 – Sponsors of the Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge have selected five finalists in the competition to develop an application to support the prevention of one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.

Surescripts CEO Harry Totonis named the finalists at the annual mHealth Summit, taking place this week at the National Harbor facility in the Washington, DC area. Other sponsors of the challenge are the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the Million Hearts initiative, and Archimedes, Inc., a health care modeling company. More...

Archimedes, Inc. Receives Best of Care Applications Award for Clinical Decision Support Tool, IndiGO

San Francisco, CA – June 13, 2012 – IndiGO (Individualized Guidelines and Outcomes), the  physician and patient decision support tool, created by the healthcare modeling company Archimedes, Inc., was recognized with the ”Best of Care Applications” award at the 2012 Health Data Initiative III: The Health Datapalooza annual event held earlier this month in Washington, D.C. More...

HHS Enlists Archimedes Inc. To Expand Government’s Use Of Health Care Modeling For Forecasting Quality And Cost Outcomes

San Francisco CA and Princeton NJ – May 3, 2012 – To put high-powered mathematical analytics in the hands of its agencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has contracted with Archimedes Inc., a healthcare modeling company based in San Francisco CA. The contract will put the Archimedes model at the fingertips of its agencies, enabling them to research, analyze, and evaluate the effects of specific health care interventions more quickly and accurately. More...

Quintiles To Quantify Healthcare Decisions Using Archimedes Simulator

San Francisco, CA and Research Triangle Park, NC – March 28, 2012 – Quintiles and Archimedes Inc. today announced an agreement to co-promote clinical and commercial solutions for biopharmaceutical companies to help reduce the time and expense associated with developing and marketing novel therapies. Through this partnership, Quintiles will incorporate Archimedes’ industry-leading healthcare modeling technology, the ARCHeS Innovator, and expertise into its existing solutions that span the product lifecycle. More...

Archimedes’ Individualized Guidelines and Outcomes (IndiGO) Deployed at Tulsa Health System

San Francisco, CA and Tulsa, OK – January 19, 2012 – Archimedes Inc., a healthcare modeling company, and MyHealth Access Network, a Beacon Community in Oklahoma, today announced the planned deployment of Archimedes’ Individualized Guidelines and Outcomes (IndiGO) platform, a physician and patient decision support tool.  IndiGO could ultimately be used by doctors to work with their patients to inform the health decisions of as many as 810,000 Oklahomans.  The MyHealth Access Network deployment marks the third deployment of the tool in the past three months. More...