Definitive Healthcare Review, Pricing and Alternatives for Healthcare Sales Teams (2026)
What Definitive Healthcare does, what it costs, where it stops for outbound teams, and the alternative built for selling into US healthcare.
Supreet Gupta, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Dmand AI
Short answer
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Definitive Healthcare is a market intelligence platform for analytics teams. It maps US hospitals, health systems, physician groups and claims, sold on custom annual contracts with no sales engagement. Sales teams that need the buying committee use Dmand AI: people attached at each site of care, plus sequences, dialer and inbox, from $249 per user per month, 30 days free.
Definitive Healthcare fits if you
- Size markets by procedure volume or all-payer claims
- Map referral patterns and payer dynamics
- Identify KOLs and medical experts for life sciences
- Run an analytics or strategy function with its own data team
Dmand AI fits if you
- Need the buying committee at a specific site, with direct dials
- Run email, calling and LinkedIn sequences from the same records
- Want a warm path into an account, not a cold list
- Want published per-seat pricing and no contract
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Key takeaways
Built for market analysis. Its core buyers are strategy, market access and commercial analytics teams at biopharma, MedTech, health IT and consulting firms.Four suites, four logins, custom contracts. Vendr puts 1 to 5 users at $25,000 to $60,000 a year and 10 to 25 users at $100,000 to $250,000.No sales engagement. No sequences, dialer, intent data or relationship intelligence. Outbound teams buy those separately.People at the site of care. Dmand AI attaches 7.4M+ HCPs and 11M+ executives to the site they work at, in a hierarchy down to 997K+ sites of care.Published pricing. Dmand AI is $249 or $499 per user per month, no contract, with a 30-day self-serve trial.Claims are Definitive's row. Definitive covers all-payer medical and prescription claims. Dmand AI's claims coverage is limited to Medicare filings.
What is Definitive Healthcare?
Definitive Healthcare is a healthcare commercial intelligence company. It sells data and analytics about the business side of US healthcare: hospitals, health systems, IDNs, physician groups, post-acute facilities, claims and the people who run them.
It was founded in 2011 and lists offices in the US, Sweden and India.1 It grew by acquisition, adding Monocl, a Swedish expert intelligence platform, in October 2020, and listed on the Nasdaq as DH on September 20, 2021, raising about $483 million in gross proceeds.2
- Q1 2026 revenue, down 6% from a year earlier
- $55.9M
- Revenue decline in its 2026 guidance of $220M to $226M
- 6 to 9%
- Customers at the end of Q1 2026 (approximate), down year over year
- 2,260
Sources: Definitive Healthcare Q1 2026 results and Form 10-Q (SEC)34
The same Q1 release notes early improvements in retention. Its site groups solutions for five buyers: biopharma, MedTech, healthcare providers, software and IT, and consulting and financial services. Its provider data covers the United States; Monocl covers experts globally.
The four Definitive Healthcare product suites
Definitive Healthcare is four products, assembled through acquisition, each behind its own login page.5
| Suite | What it covers |
|---|---|
| View Suite (reference and affiliations) | HospitalView, PhysicianView, PhysicianGroupView, ClinicView, ImagingView, SurgeryCenterView, LongTermCareView, ConnectedCareView, and Atlas all-payor and prescription claims |
| Monocl Expert Suite | ExpertInsight, Conferences and ExpertClaims, for KOL and expert identification |
| Populi Suite | Digital Audiences, Population Intelligence and Market Intelligence, for claims-based consumer analytics |
| Carevoyance | Sales enablement for MedTech |
What Definitive Healthcare includes, and what it does not
The left column is what Definitive lists. The right column is what a team running outbound has to buy somewhere else.
| Included | Not included |
|---|---|
| All-payor medical and prescription claims (Atlas) | Sales engagement: sequences, dialer, LinkedIn steps or inbox |
| Nine separate View databases | Relationship intelligence between contacts |
| Executive contacts in HospitalView; physician contact information in PhysicianView | Intent data or buying signals |
| KOL and expert identification through Monocl, 16 million+ experts | Published pricing or self-serve purchase |
| DefinitiveConnect for Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake and Databricks sharing, APIs and SFTP under a data integration license | A single login across the four suites |
| Advanced Analytics services | Published free trial terms |
Definitive Healthcare products: View Suite, Monocl, Populi and Carevoyance explained
Here is each product, described from its own page, with a screenshot of that page.
View Suite: nine databases covering the US provider landscape
The View Suite is the core product. Each database covers one provider segment. HospitalView states 9,000+ hospital and IDN profiles covering every hospital and IDN in the United States. PhysicianView states more than 3 million physicians, nurses and allied health professionals, with hospital and physician group affiliations, specialties, and contact information with primary practice locations.
The other databases cover 130,000+ physician groups, 60,000+ clinics, 22,000+ imaging centers, 14,000+ ambulatory surgery centers, 100,000+ long-term care organizations, 4,500+ ACO, HIE and payor organizations, and all-payor and prescription claims.
Underneath sits the Atlas Dataset, built from government and regulatory sources, websites, journals and first-party research calls, and Definitive ID, an identifier assigned to every organization and individual to map industry relationships.
In practice, a device company searches by procedure code, finds the surgery centers doing that procedure, sees volume trends and affiliated physicians, and pulls financial and technology data on each facility. Health IT vendors use the technology install data to find displacement targets.
Monocl Expert Suite: KOL and expert identification
Monocl serves medical affairs and life sciences teams looking for key opinion leaders. ExpertInsight states coverage of more than 16 million experts globally across therapy areas. Conferences covers sessions, speakers and topics before, during and after events. ExpertClaims adds medical claims insights to expert profiles.
Populi Suite: claims-based consumer analytics
Populi is aimed at healthcare marketing and provider organizations. Digital Audiences describes privacy-safe HCP and direct-to-consumer targeting for digital campaigns. Population Intelligence supports campaigns and activation. Market Intelligence states that Populi holds Qualified Entity status and receives 100% of Medicare Parts A, B and D data.
Carevoyance: sales enablement for MedTech
Carevoyance builds patient cohorts from diagnosis and procedure codes with inclusion, exclusion and time-based logic. It then finds the providers and sites treating those cohorts, for MedTech territory targeting. It runs as its own application behind its own login.
Definitive Healthcare integrations and data access
Definitive's data management page lists DefinitiveConnect for Salesforce, a HubSpot integration announced in its May 21, 2026 release, Snowflake Direct Data Sharing and Databricks Delta Sharing, RESTful APIs for HospitalView, PhysicianView and Monocl, and a managed SFTP site. All of it is sold under a data integration license.
Definitive Healthcare pricing: custom quotes, no published tiers
The pricing page has no prices. It offers three ways to buy: single solutions, bundles of a suite at a reduced rate, and add-ons for extra licenses, seats or custom reports. It ends in a custom quote form. The free trial page is a request form; length, scope and limits are not published.
Vendr's anonymized transaction data puts 1 to 5 users at roughly $25,000 to $60,000 a year and 10 to 25 users with multiple modules at $100,000 to $250,000. Enterprise agreements often go above $250,000 and can reach $500,000 or more. Contracts are annual and priced per named user.6
Definitive Healthcare limitations for sales and outbound teams
These themes come up in public reviews on G2 and TrustRadius and in conversations with teams evaluating the platform. They are not failures of the product. They are what happens when a platform built for market analytics is used as a daily sales tool.
Definitive Healthcare data accuracy: what to test
Definitive says its executive contacts are regularly updated and its physician contact information is up to date. Contact accuracy on generated lists comes up often in G2 reviews, so treat it as something to test, not take on trust.
A wrong affiliation costs more than a missing contact. A physician filed under the wrong parent organization sends a rep to the wrong buying committee.
| Definitive Healthcare |  Dmand AI |
|---|---|
| Contact fields inside each View database | 7.4M+ HCPs and 11M+ executives |
| Executive name, title, email, phone and LinkedIn in HospitalView; physician contact information and primary practice location in PhysicianView | Email, direct dial and LinkedIn from waterfall enrichment across healthcare-specific sources, validated; affiliations at the site level with primary and secondary practice locations |
Test it
Test it on a territory your reps know
Pull a territory your reps know cold and check three things: is each person attached to the site they actually practice at, is the parent organization right, and how many contacts bounce.
Definitive Healthcare contract terms, cancellation and auto-renewal
Definitive sells annual subscriptions per named user, with add-ons for extra licenses, seats or custom reports. Terms are negotiated per contract and not published. Vendr reports that most contracts renew automatically unless canceled 30 to 60 days before they end, that annual increases of 3% to 5% are common, and that two- and three-year terms are offered in exchange for lower pricing.6
Its Q1 2026 Form 10-Q puts the customer count at about 2,260, down year over year. A buyer renewing in 2026 has leverage.
| Definitive Healthcare | Dmand AI |
|---|---|
| Annual, per named user | No contract |
| Auto-renewal with a 30 to 60 day notice window (Vendr) | Monthly, or annual at 20% off. Stop when you want |
Ask in writing
Get four answers in writing before you sign
The term length, the exact cancellation window, the annual escalator, and whether CRM sync is included or a separate license.
Definitive Healthcare cost: what you pay for and what you use
If the daily job is find providers, get contacts and reach out, then claims analytics, referral mapping and market sizing are features the team rarely opens. Vendr's ranges start at $25,000 a year for a small team.
| Definitive Healthcare | Dmand AI |
|---|---|
| $25,000 to $60,000 a year | $249 or $499 per user per month |
| 1 to 5 users; $100,000 to $250,000 for 10 to 25 users with multiple modules (Vendr) | Published. Five Kickstarter seats cost $14,940 a year billed monthly, or $11,940 billed annually, sales engagement included |
Tip
Run the usage test
List the features your team opened in the last 90 days. If the answer is contact lists, you are paying for an analytics platform to do a sales job.
Is Definitive Healthcare easy to use? The analyst layer most teams add
Four suites, claims tooling and analytics dashboards are built for data teams. Reviewers describe the data as hard to arrange and manipulate, which is a separate question from whether it is correct. Many teams put an ops or analyst between the platform and the rep, and every list request waits in that person's queue.
| Definitive Healthcare | Dmand AI |
|---|---|
| An analyst layer is typical | Plain English, 100+ filters |
| Depth and breadth designed for data and strategy teams | An SDR describes the ICP in a sentence. AI Research Columns answer custom questions row by row |
Definitive Healthcare Salesforce and HubSpot integration: what is included
DefinitiveConnect pushes data into Salesforce, and a HubSpot integration was announced in May 2026. Data sharing, APIs and file transfers sit under a data integration license. The outreach still runs in another tool you buy, so ask about export limits before you sign.
| Definitive Healthcare | Dmand AI |
|---|---|
| Export, then outreach elsewhere | Integrations included |
| Integrations licensed separately. Sequencing runs in a separate tool you buy | Salesforce, HubSpot and Slack. Sequences, dialer and inbox run on the same records, so nothing has to move |
Definitive Healthcare login: four products, four login pages
The View Suite, Monocl, Populi and Carevoyance run as separate products, each with its own login page. A user doing KOL identification and territory planning switches between them.
| Definitive Healthcare | Dmand AI |
|---|---|
| 4 logins | 1 login |
| Four separately branded suites, each with its own interface | Search, profiles, enrichment, sequences, dialer and inbox in one application |
Definitive Healthcare implementation and free trial: how long to first list
Five- and six-figure contracts go through procurement, legal and budget before implementation starts. On its Q2 2026 earnings call, Definitive said enterprise data integration now takes about 45 days, which it presents as an improvement. The free trial is sales-assisted and its terms are not published.
| Definitive Healthcare | Dmand AI |
|---|---|
| About 45 days | Same day |
| Procurement, then implementation | 30 days free, self-serve, no credit card |
Test Dmand AI on Definitive Healthcare accounts before your renewal date
Build a list, check the affiliations and run a sequence on accounts your team already knows. 30 days free, self-serve, no credit card.
30 days free, self-serve, no credit card
Top Definitive Healthcare alternative for healthcare sales teams: Dmand AI
Dmand AI is a healthcare sales intelligence and outbound platform. It covers the same US healthcare universe Definitive maps, then does two things Definitive does not: it attaches every HCP and executive to the site they work at, and it runs the outreach from the same screen.
- HCPs
- 7.4M+
- Healthcare executives
- 11M+
- Sites of care
- 997K+
- Medical groups
- 181K+
- Health systems and IDNs
- 1.6K+
- Hospitals
- 6.2K+
- Parent organizations
- 124K+
- Solo practices
- 235K+
Dmand AI database, October 2026
Site-level affiliation: people linked to where they work, not to a domain
Healthcare sales data comes in two shapes. Facility-first vendors know the building: beds, EHR, financials, ownership. They do not tell you who runs imaging at the one in Springfield. Domain-first databases link a person to a company by email domain, so a nurse manager at a satellite clinic lands under a system 300 miles away, or nowhere.
Dmand AI is built on a third model. Every entity sits in a parent-child tree: site of care, hospital or operating organization, division, health system, IDN. HCPs and executives attach at the site, with primary and secondary practice locations, refreshed continuously.
That answers the questions a rep actually has. Which of this system's sites runs the service line I sell into? Who runs that department, and who sits above them? Which operating organization signs? Where else does this physician practice?
7.4M+ HCPs and 11M+ executives with verified contacts
PhysicianView states more than 3 million physicians, nurses and allied health professionals. Dmand AI covers 7.4M+ HCPs and 11M+ executives, each with email, direct dial and LinkedIn from waterfall enrichment across healthcare-specific sources, validated before it reaches a list.
Coverage spans health systems, hospitals of every type, physician groups and independent practices, ASCs, imaging, urgent care, FQHCs, dialysis, behavioral health, post-acute care, ACOs and GPOs.
I like Dmand AI’s extremely curated and comprehensive healthcare database, which you won’t find on any other platform with this level of detail. The ability to filter by specialty, location, independent physician or not, and many others is incredibly useful.
One platform, one login: data and sales engagement in the same workflow
Definitive maps the market across four suites and four logins, and outreach happens in a tool you buy separately. Dmand AI runs universe search, 360-degree profiles, enrichment, multi-channel sequences, an auto-dialer, LinkedIn steps and a unified inbox in one application behind one login.
Salesforce, HubSpot and Slack are included, along with role-based access, teams, custom rulesets and custom fields.
Natural language search, AI Research Columns and Zeus AI
Describe the list you want in plain English, for example "cardiologists at ASCs in Texas with more than 100 procedures last year," and Dmand AI returns it as a filterable list. Definitive's May 2026 release added AI search over its own data, but it has no intent data or buying signals.
AI Research Columns add a plain-English question as a column on any list of HCPs, executives, sites, physician groups or HCOs. Every row is researched and filled, with sources, and the answers can be filtered and used as merge fields.
Zeus AI pulls live insight on each prospect and organization and writes a unique email for every row in bulk. 80+ pre-built healthcare buying signals surface the accounts to work now.
I love how it automatically researches prospects and writes hyper-personalized emails, saving me hours every day by eliminating manual research. […] The real value is speed and scale, as I can reach significantly more prospects every week with personalized, high-converting messages that don’t look like generic automated spam.
NPI contact enrichment API: emails and direct dials from an NPI
Give Dmand AI a Type 1 NPI and get back a verified professional email, a personal email for recruiting outreach, or a direct dial. It works in the app and through a REST API, one NPI at a time or in batches, with webhook or polling delivery.
Credits are charged only when a contact is found, and repeat lookups within 30 days are free. Staffing firms use it to reach candidates. Sales teams use it to keep the HCP records in their CRM current. The API documentation is public.
Claude MCP connector: query the US healthcare universe inside your AI workflow
Dmand AI ships a Model Context Protocol connector for Claude. Connect it once and ask Claude for lists, affiliations, hierarchies and contacts in plain English, inside the workflow you already use. Definitive's data is reached through its own applications, DefinitiveConnect, data sharing or a licensed API. See how the connector works.
Physician Network Discovery: relationship intelligence Definitive does not list
Definitive does not list relationship intelligence. Dmand AI maps how the people you already know connect to the people you want to reach, across five path types: current coworkers, past colleagues, shared medical school, residency and fellowship, co-authors on publications, and co-investigators on clinical trials.
A CMIO at a target system stops being a cold name when you can see that your existing customer trained with her, published with her or ran a trial site with her.
Published pricing, no contract, 30-day self-serve trial
Definitive is quote-only, annual and priced per named user, with add-ons and a sales-assisted trial. Dmand AI publishes its pricing: Kickstarter is $249 per user per month, or $199 billed annually. Growth is $499, or $399 billed annually, and adds buying signals, AI Research Columns and the Claude MCP connector. Enterprise is custom for 10 or more seats.
There is no contract. The trial is 30 days, self-serve, with no credit card. Five Kickstarter seats cost $11,940 a year billed annually, with the sales engagement that would otherwise be a third line item.
See Dmand AI on your own Definitive Healthcare accounts
Bring a target list. See the hierarchy, the buying committee, the contact coverage and the warm paths in, on accounts you already know.
30 days free, self-serve, no credit card
Definitive Healthcare vs Dmand AI: comparison summary
Apples to apples, for a team that needs provider affiliations, people contact data and a way to run outreach.
| Dimension | Dmand AI | Definitive Healthcare |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Healthcare sales intelligence and outbound for sales, marketing and recruiting teams | Healthcare market data and analytics for strategy, market access and analytics teams |
| HCP database | 7.4M+ HCPs with site-level affiliations and verified contacts | 3M+ physicians, nurses and allied health professionals (PhysicianView) |
| Healthcare executive contacts | 11M+ executives with email, direct dial and LinkedIn, attached to the site they run | Name, title, email, phone and LinkedIn in HospitalView, PhysicianGroupView and other Views |
| Provider affiliations | HCP and executive affiliations at each site of care inside the IDN, system, hospital, division and site hierarchy | Physician affiliations to hospitals and physician groups, with primary practice location (PhysicianView) |
| Health system hierarchy | 1.6K+ health systems and IDNs, 6.2K+ hospitals, 181K+ medical groups and 997K+ sites of care in one parent-child tree | 9,000+ hospital and IDN profiles; Definitive ID maps relationships between organizations |
| Contact data verification | Waterfall enrichment across healthcare-specific sources, validated before it reaches a list | Described as regularly updated; accuracy comes up in G2 reviews |
| Claims data | Medicare filings only | All-payer medical and prescription claims (Atlas) |
| Relationship intelligence (warm introductions) | Physician Network Discovery, five path types | Not offered |
| Intent data and buying signals | 80+ healthcare buying signals | Not offered |
| Sales engagement (sequences, dialer, inbox) | Email, auto-dialer, LinkedIn steps, tasks, unified inbox | Not offered |
| AI search, research and personalization | Natural language search; AI Research Columns; Zeus AI writes per-row outreach | AI search over its own data (May 2026) |
| Contact enrichment API | NPI lookup for professional email, personal email and direct dial, charged only when found | RESTful APIs for HospitalView, PhysicianView and Monocl under a data integration license |
| AI assistant access (Claude MCP) | Claude MCP connector | Not offered |
| CRM integrations | Salesforce, HubSpot and Slack, included | Salesforce (DefinitiveConnect) and HubSpot (May 2026), under a data integration license |
| Logins | 1 | 4: View, Monocl, Populi, Carevoyance |
| Pricing | $249 and $499 per user per month, published | Custom quote |
| Contract | None; monthly or annual billing | Annual, per named user (Vendr) |
| Free trial | 30 days, self-serve, no credit card | Request form; length and scope not published |
Definitive Healthcare competitors and alternatives, and who each is for
Teams looking for an alternative are solving one of two problems. Some want cheaper analytics. Some want to stop doing analytics and start reaching people.
Scroll the table sideways
Read the head-to-heads: ZoomInfo for healthcare sales teams and Apollo.io for healthcare sales teams.
Who switches from Definitive Healthcare to Dmand AI
The teams that switch are the ones whose daily work is reaching people, not modeling the market. Here is what each gets.
Health IT and services vendors
EHR, revenue cycle, population health, care management, prior authorization, clinical decision support and interoperability vendors. Definitive tells you the system has 42 sites and runs Epic. Dmand AI tells you who runs IT at the site you are targeting, who sits above them, and gives you the direct dial.
Healthtech and digital health companies
Virtual care, remote monitoring, patient engagement and care navigation. Find physicians by specialty, procedures and patient volume, see every site and group they practice at, find the operating organization above them, and sequence clinicians and executives together.
Medical staffing and recruiting firms
Two lists from one platform: facilities with demand, and candidates. Search 7.4M+ HCPs by specialty, site, group, employer, education and certifications. Reach the administrators, directors of nursing and regional clinical operations leaders that horizontal databases miss, and reach candidates on personal email through the NPI contact enrichment API.
Consulting firms and agencies serving healthcare
Hierarchy and ownership data to size markets, executive contacts by function, AI Research Columns for client-specific questions, exportable lists, and team workspaces with role-based access.
MedTech and medical supplies companies
Surgeons by procedure volume, the ASCs and imaging centers where procedures happen, KOLs through publications, trials, boards and open payments, plus service line leaders and value analysis committees. Physician Network Discovery finds the introduction through co-investigators, co-authors and former colleagues.
Pharma, biotech and CROs
Prescribers by therapy area, KOL profiles with education, associations, boards and open payments, investigators and the sites, groups and systems they belong to, then personalized sequences.
Definitive Healthcare pricing 2026 vs Dmand AI
Definitive sells custom quotes, so its column uses Vendr's ranges from anonymized transactions. Dmand AI's column is its published list price.
| Dimension | Dmand AI | Definitive Healthcare |
|---|---|---|
| Transparent pricing | Yes, dmand.ai/pricing | No, quote only |
| Entry | Kickstarter, $249 per user per month or $199 billed annually | $25,000 to $60,000 a year for 1 to 5 users |
| Mid-tier | Growth, $499 per user per month or $399 billed annually | $100,000 to $250,000 a year for 10 to 25 users with multiple modules |
| Enterprise | Custom, 10 or more seats | Often above $250,000 a year, up to $500,000 or more |
| Contract | None | Annual, per named user |
| Billing | Monthly, or annual at 20% off | Annual prepayment is standard |
| Add-ons | Credit packs from $49 for 500 credits | Extra licenses, seats, modules or custom reports |
| Sales engagement (sequences, dialer, inbox) | Included | Not offered; bought separately |
| Free trial | 30 days, self-serve, no credit card | Request form; terms not published |
Questions to ask before you renew Definitive Healthcare
Whether you switch or not, get these answers in writing.
Before you sign or renew
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How to switch from Definitive Healthcare to Dmand AI
Most teams test Dmand AI on accounts they already know, then time the move to their renewal date.
Start the free trial
30 days, self-serve, no credit card and no sales call.
Rebuild one list you already trust
Compare it field by field: site-level affiliation, parent organization, title accuracy, and email and direct dial coverage.
Run one sequence
50 records, one AI Research Column and Zeus AI personalization, then email, calls and LinkedIn. Measure connect and reply rates against your current stack.
Check the warm paths
Run Physician Network Discovery on your top 20 accounts and count how many have a path in.
Time it around your renewal window
Find the cancellation date and work backward. If you keep Definitive for claims analytics, the conversation is about seat count, not the whole contract.
Definitive Healthcare or Dmand AI: which to choose
The choice depends on which layer of the problem you own.
Choose Definitive Healthcare if your work is understanding the structure of the US healthcare market: sizing a therapy market by procedure volume, mapping referral patterns across an IDN, finding KOLs for a launch, or modeling prescribing from all-payer claims. That is what the platform is built for, and it is sold to strategy, market access and analytics teams on that basis.
Choose Dmand AI if your work is reaching people inside that market: building a list of the right HCPs and executives at the right sites, knowing who sits above them, finding a warm path in, and running email, calls and LinkedIn from the same records, at published per-seat pricing with no contract.
“Definitive maps the market. Dmand AI puts your team inside it.”
Sources
- About Definitive Healthcaredefinitivehc.com
- Definitive Healthcare IPO closing release, Exhibit 99.1U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Definitive Healthcare Q1 2026 results, Exhibit 99.1U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Definitive Healthcare Form 10-Q, Q1 2026U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Definitive Healthcare data productsdefinitivehc.com
- Definitive Healthcare pricingVendr marketplace, October 2026
- Dmand AI pricingdmand.ai
Written by
Supreet Gupta
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Dmand AI
Supreet is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Dmand AI. He leads the product and the healthcare data behind it, and writes Selling Into Healthcare, a newsletter on how US health systems buy.