Thomson Healthcare, Inc. provides decision support solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and business performance. Its solutions include healthcare databases, analytics, professional services, and research services for clinicians, hospitals and healthcare providers, employers, health plans, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies. The company also assists its customers in designing benefits plans, targeting and evaluating preventative medicine programs, structuring disease management programs, improving access to care, and stewarding government dollars. It delivers clinical evidence-based referential and workflow solutions for nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and other professionals working in hospitals, practice, managed care, academics, and industrial settings. The company’s products include AltCareDex System, a tool for educating patients about complementary and alternative medicines and practices; AltMedDex System, which provides information about complementary and alternative medicine therapies and practices; AltMed-REAX for the patient that discusses the potential for interactions between alternative medicines and other drugs, dietary supplements, food, alcohol, and tobacco; and CareNotes System, which enables users to provide patients with information about all aspects of their care and health. Its other products comprise Clinical Checklist, a tool for clinicians to ensure patient care quality; Clinical Xpert Medication Reconciliation, an admission-to-discharge workflow solution that addresses all the hospital-based functions required for medication reconciliation; Consumer Health Solution, collection of patient-focused health information for hospitals, health plans, and managed-care organizations; and clinical knowledge solutions for medication safety. The company was founded in 1944 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thomson Healthcare, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation.