UnitedHealthUnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a health care company in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Optum Health, Optum Insight, Optum Rx; and UnitedHealthcare. The Optum Health segment provides care delivery, care management, wellness and consumer engagement, and health financial services with patients, consumers, care delivery systems, providers, employers, payers, and public-sector entities. The Optum Insight segment offers software and information products, advisory consulting arrangements, and managed services outsourcing contracts to hospital systems, physicians, health plans, public entities, life sciences companies and other organizations. The Optum Rx segment provides pharmacy care services and programs, including retail network contracting, home delivery, specialty and community health pharmacy services, infusion, and purchasing and clinical capabilities, as well as develops programs in the areas of step therapy, formulary management, drug adherence, and disease and drug therapy management. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; Medicaid plans, including Temporary Assistance to Needy Families; Children’s Health Insurance Programs; Dual SNPs; Long-Term Services and Supports; Aged, Blind and Disabled; and other federal, state, and community health care programs. and health care benefits products and services to state programs caring for the economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated was founded in 1974 and is based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.Web22 evaluationsHealthcare companies and projects
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UnitedHealthUnitedHealth Group Incorporated operates as a health care company in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Optum Health, Optum Insight, Optum Rx; and UnitedHealthcare. The Optum Health segment provides care delivery, care management, wellness and consumer engagement, and health financial services with patients, consumers, care delivery systems, providers, employers, payers, and public-sector entities. The Optum Insight segment offers software and information products, advisory consulting arrangements, and managed services outsourcing contracts to hospital systems, physicians, health plans, public entities, life sciences companies and other organizations. The Optum Rx segment provides pharmacy care services and programs, including retail network contracting, home delivery, specialty and community health pharmacy services, infusion, and purchasing and clinical capabilities, as well as develops programs in the areas of step therapy, formulary management, drug adherence, and disease and drug therapy management. The UnitedHealthcare segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; Medicaid plans, including Temporary Assistance to Needy Families; Children’s Health Insurance Programs; Dual SNPs; Long-Term Services and Supports; Aged, Blind and Disabled; and other federal, state, and community health care programs. and health care benefits products and services to state programs caring for the economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated was founded in 1974 and is based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.Web22 evaluations
ColoplastColoplast A/S engages in the development and sale of intimate healthcare products and services in Denmark, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and internationally. The company operates through Chronic Care, Continence Care, Voice and Respiratory Care, Interventional Urology, and Advanced Wound Dressings and Biologics segments. It provides ostomy care products, including SenSura Mio, which provides fit individual body shapes and discretion for various types of ostomies; and SenSura Ostomy care solutions, as well as ostomy accessories under the Brava brand. The company also offers continence care products, such as Conveen Active urine bags; SpeediCath catheters that offer catheterization for both genders; Peristeen Plus, a transanal irrigation system; and Peristeen Light, a low-volume transanal irrigation. In addition, it provides wound care products comprising conforming dressing under the Biatain Silicone brand and hydrocolloid dressing under the Comfeel brand. Further, the company develops, produces, and markets products for the surgical treatment of urological and gynecological disorders, such as erectile dysfunction, urinary stone diseases, benign prostate hyperplasia, voiding dysfunctions, and urinary incontinence. Additionally, its voice and respiratory care solutions include laryngectomy care products comprising Provox, a voice prosthesis for speaking, HMEs, adhesives, laryngectomy tubes for breathing, devices for speaking hands-free, and accessories, as well as tracheostomy care products under Tracoe brand. Coloplast A/S was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Humlebæk, Denmark.Web21 evaluation
BayerBayer Aktiengesellschaft operates as a life science company in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Germany, Switzerland, North America, the United States, the Asia Pacific, China, Latin America, and Brazil. It operates through Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health, and Crop Science segments. The Pharmaceuticals segment provides prescription products primarily for cardiology and women’s health care; specialty therapeutics in the areas of oncology, hematology, and ophthalmology; and diagnostic imaging equipment and contrast agents, as well as cell and gene therapy. The Consumer Health segment offers nonprescription over-the-counter medicines for self-medication and self-care; nutritional supplements; allergy, cough, and cold; dermatology; pain and cardiovascular risk prevention; and digestive health products. The Crop Science segment offers chemical and biological crop protection products, improved plant traits, seeds, digital solutions, and pest and weed management products, as well as customer services for agriculture. It also engages in the breeding, propagation, and production/processing of seeds, including seed dressing. The company distributes its products through wholesalers, pharmacies and pharmacy chains, supermarkets, online and other retailers, and hospitals, as well as directly to farmers. Bayer Aktiengesellschaft has a strategic alliance with The University of Colorado Anschutz, along with UCHealth and Children's Hospital Colorado to advance drug development and clinical trials. Bayer Aktiengesellschaft has a strategic alliance Henry Ford Health. Bayer Aktiengesellschaft was founded in 1863 and is based in Leverkusen, Germany.Web21 evaluation
4Dmedical4DMedical Limited operates as a medical technology company in the United States and Australia. The company engages in the medical research technology and development of a non-invasive respiratory imaging solution using four-dimensional imaging. It offers CT:VQ, non contrast post processing technology; CAC, a non-contrast cardiothoracic risk assessment sotware; CT LVAS, a regional lung function imaging software; IQ-UIP, a state-of-the-art software; LDAf, Patented Parametric Response Mapping (PRM) technology; LDAi, an automated detection of potential emphysema software; LTA provides visualization and quantification of the lung textures; PHA Analysis, a cutting-edge, fully-automated imaging solution; XV LVAS, a lung airflow imaging software; and XV Scanner, a lung function scanner. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Carlton, Australia.Web22 evaluations
Charles River LaboratoriesCharles River Laboratories International, Inc. provides drug discovery, non-clinical development, and safety testing services in the United States, Europe, Canada, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The Research Models and Services segment produces and sells rodents, and purpose-bred rats and mice for use by researchers. This segment also provides a range of services to assist its clients in supporting the use of research models in research and screening pre-clinical drug candidates, including genetically engineered models and services, insourcing solutions, and research animal diagnostic services; and engages in development and production of cell therapies. The Discovery and Safety Assessment segment offers in vitro and in vivo discovery services for the discovery, development, and safety testing of novel drugs, molecule compounds, oligonucleotides, and biotherapeutics, and antibodies through delivery of preclinical drug and therapeutic candidates ready for safety assessment; safety assessment services, such as toxicology, pathology, safety pharmacology, bioanalysis, drug metabolism, and pharmacokinetics services; and vivarium space services. The Manufacturing Solutions segment provides in vitro methods for conventional and rapid quality control testing of sterile and non-sterile pharmaceuticals and consumer products; offers specialized testing of biologics that are outsourced by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies; and contract development and manufacturing products and services. The company has strategic collaborations with Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles across its contract development and manufacturing organization. Additionally, it has a strategic alliance with Francis Crick Institute (Crick), Inc. for the development of Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) drug discovery and development. Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.Web21 evaluation
CenteneCentene Corporation operates as a managed care company that provides programs and services to under-insured families, and commercial organizations in the United States. It operates through four segments: Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial, and Other. The Medicaid segment offers the temporary assistance for needy families; medicaid expansion; aged, blind, or disabled; and children's health insurance programs, as well as long-term services and supports; foster care; and medicare-medicaid plans. This segment also provides healthcare products and services. The Medicare segment offers special needs and medicare supplement, and prescription drug plans. The Commercial segment provides health insurance marketplace product for individual and commercial group. The Other segment operates clinical healthcare and pharmacies, as well as offers vision and dental, behavioral health, and centralized services. It provides services through primary and specialty care physicians, hospitals, behavioral health practitioners, and ancillary providers. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.Web21 evaluation
ICON PLCICON Public Limited Company, a clinical research organization, provides outsourced development and commercialization services in Ireland, Europe, the United States, and internationally. The company specializes in the strategic development, management, and analysis of programs that support various stages of the clinical development process from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. It also provides clinical development services, including all phases of development, peri and post approval, data solutions, and site and patient access services; clinical trial management, consulting, contract staffing, data solutions, and laboratory services; and commercial services comprising clinical development strategy, planning and trial design, full study execution, and post-market commercialization. In addition, the company offers testing services comprising bioanalytical, biomarker, vaccine, good manufacturing practice, and central laboratory services, as well as full-service and functional service partnerships to customers. Further, the company provides adaptive trials, cardiac safety solutions, clinical and scientific operations, consulting and advisory, commercial positioning, decentralized and hybrid clinical trials, early clinical, medical imaging, real world intelligence, site and patient, and strategic solutions. Additionally, it provides therapeutics for cardiovascular, central nervous system, endocrine and metabolic disorders, hepatology, infectious diseases, internal medicine immunology, and oncology. It serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, as well as government and public health organizations. ICON Public Limited Company was incorporated in 1989 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.Web21 evaluation
Eurofins ScientificEurofins Scientific SE, together with its subsidiaries, provides various analytical testing and laboratory services worldwide. It provides services, such as agroscience, including biological assessment, consumer and human, environmental safety, product chemistry, regulatory consultancy, and seed services; agro testing; assurance, including sustainability, audit, certification, quality inspection, QA-QC programme, and food and dietary supplement labelling services; biopharma, and clinical diagnostics. The company also offers consumer product testing, which include sustainability, testing, certifications and approvals, expert services and regulatory, inspections, audits, consumer research and sensory evaluation, and training courses; cosmetics and personal care; and electrical and electronics laboratories services. In addition, it provides environment testing, including maritime, water, air, soil, building material, pollution, waste, fuel/oil, microplastics, and radioactivity testing; and food and feed testing that include allergen, audit and certification, authenticity, carbohydrates, consulting, dioxins and POPs, food irradiation, GMO, heavy metal, melamine, microbiology, molecular biology, mycotoxin, nutritional analyses, organic contaminants, pesticide, veterinary drug, vitamin, and residual DNA testing. Further, the company provides forensic, genomic, maritime, materials and engineering, REACH, and sensory and consumer services, as well as in vitro diagnostics and PSS insourcing solutions. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.Web21 evaluation
BridgeBio PharmaBridgeBio Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and delivers medicines for patients with genetic diseases. The company offers Attruby, a next-generation oral small molecule near-complete TTR stabilizer for the treatment of cardiomyopathy of wild-type or transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR-CM); Fosdenopterin, an intravenous formulation of synthetic cyclic pyranopterin monophosphate for the treatment of molybdenum cofactor deficiency under the NULIBRY brand name; and low-dose infigratinib, an oral FGFR1-3 selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor, which is in Phase 3 clinical stage or the treatment of children with achondroplasia and hypochondroplasia. It also develops Encaleret, an oral small molecule, negative allosteric modulator of the calcium sensing receptor, which is in phase 3 clinical study for the treatment of Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia Type 1(ADH1) and Chronic Hypoparathyroidism (CHP); BBP-418, an investigational, orally administered, and small molecule therapy that is in phase 3 clinical study for the treatment of LGMD2I; and BBP-812, an investigational adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy for Canavan disease. In addition, the company engages in developing products for mendelian, oncology, and gene therapy diseases. It has license and collaboration agreements with the Bayer Consumer Care AG, Alexion Pharma International Operations Limited Company, Leland Stanford Junior University, and Novartis International Pharmaceutical Ltd. BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.Web21 evaluation
NeurocrineNeurocrine Biosciences, Inc. discovers, develops, and commercialize pharmaceuticals for neurological, psychiatric, endocrine, and immunological disorders in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include INGREZZA for tardive dyskinesia and chorea associated with Huntington’s disease; Orilissa tablets for endometriosis; Oriahnn capsules to treat uterine fibroids; and CRENESSITY to treat congenital adrenal hyperplasia, as well as offers products under the name of ALKINDI and Efmody. Its product candidates in clinical development includes NBI-1076986 to treat movement disorders; Osavampator for inadequate response to treatment in major depressive disorder; NBI-1117568 for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar mania; NBI-1117567 for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease; NBI 921355 for the treatment of epilepsy; NBIP-01435 for the treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia; NBIP-2118 for the treatment of obesity and related metabolic diseases; and NBI-1070770 to treat major depressive disorder; and NBI-1117570, NBI-1117567, NBI-1117569, NBI-1140675, and NBI-1065890 for neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. The company also has license and collaboration agreements with Nxera Pharma UK Limited; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited; Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Voyager Therapeutics, Inc.; Sanofi S.A.; Tanabe Pharma Corporation; and AbbVie Inc. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.Web21 evaluationAbout this sector
Healthcare includes both medical businesses and projects supporting how health information or research is managed. Its application sub-sectors cover pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical research, healthcare equipment and providers, medical records, research transparency, supply-chain transparency and patient-data privacy.
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Healthcare Equipment & Supplies (1,090)
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