Initiate

As of March 1, 2010, Initiate Systems, Inc. was acquired by International Business Machines Corp. Initiate Systems, Inc. provides master data management software solutions for organizations. The company offers Initiate Master Data Service, a master data management product for customer data that delivers versions of critical data assets and their relationships; Initiate Inspector, a solution to inspect data, visualize relationships, and collaborate to resolve issues; and Initiate Patient, an enterprise master patient index or patient registry to manage and link patient identification information between various systems. It also provides Initiate Provider, a provider registry to manage and share the information about providers; Initiate Exchange, which provides services to support health information exchange between acute care health system and participating ambulatory physician practices, reference labs, and imaging centers; and Initiate Data Quality Suite, a solution to control enterprise master data. In addition, the company offers business management consulting, data implementation, data migration, and health data management implementation services; and optimization services, including system upgrade, system extension, performance analysis, data analytics, and custom services. The company serves financial services, insurance, health plans, healthcare providers and payers, RHIO/health information exchange, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail industries, as well as government agencies, pharmacy benefits managers, and healthcare integrated delivery networks. Initiate Systems was formerly known as Madison Information Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Initiate Systems, Inc. in May 2003. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in Austin, Irvine, and Phoenix in the United States; Sydney, Australia; Toronto, Canada; and London, United Kingdom.