What OpenHealth does

OpenHealth Company is a privately-held French health data processing specialist founded in 2001, headquartered in France and serving pharmaceutical companies, healthcare research institutions, and marketing organizations across Europe. The firm operates a six-module platform comprising Consumer Health (marketing and sales efficiency for consumer-health products), Drugs (pharmaceutical market intelligence), Real World Data (real-world evidence access), Consulting-Scoring (pharmacy network performance and benchmarking), Direct Marketing (emailing campaigns to healthcare providers), and Third Party Data Management (a health data warehouse). Underlying technology rests on three production Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and a panel of 15,000 pharmacies that supply longitudinal sell-in and sell-out data, augmented by a catalog of additional data sources and a Data Search custom-request service. The platform extends across pharmacy, parapharmacy, Amazon, and organic (BIO) channels, with a stated multinational data-analysis footprint and an Open Health Group relationship for adjacent coverage.

The company's business model combines subscription and recurring data subscriptions (Consumer Health, Drugs, Real World Data, Direct Marketing, Third Party Data Management) with professional-services consulting engagements anchored on its pharmacy-scoring methodology. Go-to-market is sales-led and enterprise-focused: customers include Eli Lilly, Forte Pharma, Santarome, Le Nature, Nielsen, Théradial, Octopize, the French regulator ANSM, and research centers CHU Lyon and IHU Marseille. The firm is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds or institutional investors. Operational governance is led by a General Manager, COO, CSO, CTO, and a Director of Offerings and Client Delivery, supported by a small team that OpenHealth itself describes as a "human-sized player."

Beyond the core platform, OpenHealth runs a Knowledge Base/ROADMAP customer-success portal, a Transparency Portal, a Press section, and active LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. It holds RGPD/GDPR compliance certification via DIPEEO and is pursuing a data-provider marketplace ("Become a Data Provider") that points toward multi-sided ecosystem ambitions. The company is actively operating, with public job postings and continued product development across the eight listed offerings.

Name

OpenHealth

Legal name

OpenHealth Company

Website

https://openhealth.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

OpenHealth is a France-based health data processing company, founded in 2001, that sells pharmacy-panel, Real World Data, scoring, and direct-marketing analytics to pharmaceutical firms, research institutions, and healthcare marketers across Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Franceau

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Data Solutions and Analytics: Revenue from providing health data solutions including Real World Data, Consumer Health analytics, and pharmacy panel data to pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations
2. Consulting Services: Revenue from consulting and scoring services for pharmacy network evaluation and healthcare analytics
3. Direct Marketing Solutions: Emailing solution to healthcare providers for targeted communications
4. Third Party Data Management: Health data warehouse services for managing external healthcare data

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

OpenHealth sells a health-data processing platform that ingests, analyzes, and distributes real-world healthcare data through six product modules: Consumer Health, Drugs, Real World Data, Consulting-Scoring (pharmacy performance), Direct Marketing (emailing to healthcare providers), and Third Party Data Management (health data warehouse). Offerings are priced and packaged for enterprise clients such as pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and research institutions, with data drawn from a 15,000-pharmacy panel and three production EDS systems.

Product overview

OpenHealth is a health data processing company offering a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core platform is built around six interconnected product modules: Consumer Health (marketing and sales efficiency), Drugs (pharmaceutical data), Real World Data (real-world evidence), Consulting - Scoring (pharmacy performance analytics), Direct Marketing (healthcare provider email campaigns), and Third Party Data Management (health data warehouse). The platform is complemented by a Knowledge Base resource center, transparency portal, and data sourcing capabilities. With 25 years of experience, 3 production environments, 15,000 panel pharmacies, and partnerships with 20 research institutions, OpenHealth processes health data from collection through analysis for pharmaceutical, parapharmacy, and e-commerce channels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Consumer Health Marketing and sales efficiency solution for consumer-health products, providing consumer-health analytics for healthcare and consumer-goods clients operating in pharmacy, parapharmacy, and organic (BIO) channels.
• Drugs Comprehensive drug data platform providing pharmaceutical market intelligence and analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturers, including sell-in and sell-out multinational data analysis across pharmacy and parapharmacy channels.
• Real World Data Real-world evidence data solution providing access to real-world clinical and healthcare data sourced from OpenHealth's 15,000-pharmacy panel and partner network, used by pharma companies and research institutions for real-world evidence studies.
• Consulting - Scoring Pharmacy scoring solution providing analytical consulting services for pharmacy performance evaluation and benchmarking, intended for pharmaceutical manufacturers and healthcare organizations evaluating pharmacy networks.
• Direct Marketing Emailing solution targeting healthcare providers for direct marketing campaigns, enabling compliant communications from pharmaceutical and healthcare companies to healthcare professionals via OpenHealth's curated provider panel.
• Third Party Data Management Health data warehouse solution for managing and integrating third-party healthcare data sources, with a "Become a Data Provider" program that allows external organizations to offer their datasets for sale through the platform.
• Studies and Publications Catalog of OpenHealth's published real-world evidence studies and research outputs, produced in collaboration with the company's 20 research partners, including CHU Lyon and IHU Marseille.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3 EDS systems in production demonstrating operational scale and reliability
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• CHU LyoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity hospital of Lyon - research collaboration partner with published studies and healthcare data research projects
• IHU MarseillecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInstitut Hospitalo-Universitaire Marseille - healthcare research institute partnership for clinical and healthcare data analysis
• LillycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEli Lilly and Company - major pharmaceutical company partnership for real world data and market intelligence solutions

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Eversana: Pharmaceutical data, analytics, and commercial services provider serving life sciences clients. Comparable to OpenHealth across pharma market intelligence and direct-to-provider marketing solutions.
• IQVIA: Global leader in healthcare data, analytics, and Real World Evidence serving pharmaceutical companies. IQVIA is the largest competing dataset and overlaps directly with OpenHealth's market intelligence, RWE, and pharmacy data offerings.
• Indegene: Healthcare analytics and commercialization company serving global pharma with medical affairs, commercial, and RWE solutions. Comparable to OpenHealth in serving pharma customers with data-driven marketing and real-world insights.
• GlobalData: Global data and analytics provider with a dedicated healthcare division offering pharma market intelligence and competitive intelligence. Competes with OpenHealth's Drugs and Consumer Health modules for pharma commercial insight budgets.
• Cegedim: French healthcare data, CRM, and market intelligence company with deep European pharmacy and pharmaceutical coverage. Cegedim is the most direct domestic competitor to OpenHealth, with overlapping products in pharmacy data and pharma CRM.
• Symphony Health: US-based healthcare data and analytics provider (now part of ICON/PRA) specializing in integrated patient, prescription, and pharmacy claims data. Directly comparable to OpenHealth's pharmacy panel and Real World Data offerings for pharma commercial clients.
• Decision Resources Group (Clarivate): Healthcare-focused data and analytics provider (now part of Clarivate) offering RWE, market access, and pharma intelligence. Comparable to OpenHealth in addressing evidence-based commercial decision support for pharma clients.
• Definitive Healthcare: Healthcare commercial intelligence provider offering data on providers, including pharmacy and clinical intelligence. Competes with OpenHealth in delivering market intelligence and provider targeting for pharma commercial teams.

Broad incumbents

• Real Chemistry: Healthcare marketing, communications, and data analytics firm serving pharma and life sciences. Overlaps with OpenHealth's Direct Marketing module for HCP communications and pharma campaign analytics as part of a wider communications portfolio.
• ICON plc: Global clinical research and healthcare data organization with RWE and commercial analytics services. A broader incumbent that overlaps with OpenHealth in RWE and clinical data analytics but spans a much wider portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/OPENHEALTH_Co
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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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