Z-Index

What Z-Index does

Z-Index B.V. is a privately held Dutch company headquartered in The Hague that maintains the G-Standaard, the authoritative reference database for healthcare products in the Netherlands. The G-Standaard is a hierarchical database of approximately 80 files containing detailed information on over 100,000 products, covering licensed and unlicensed medicines, vitamins and dietary supplements, homeopathic medicines, and medical devices, with data extending from packaging level to active substance. The database is published monthly and includes pharmacovigilance, pricing, logistics, reimbursement, and regulatory information, governed by a proprietary spine structure (Ruggengraat) and more than 1,000 automated quality controls per production cycle. Over 700 manufacturers submit product information via the G-Standaard invoerloket web portal.

The company operates as a Trusted Third Party (TTP), serving six core customer segments: software vendors (which embed G-Standaard data into pharmacy, GP, hospital, and insurer IT systems), healthcare providers (pharmacies, GPs, hospital pharmacies), health insurers, product responsible parties, industry associations (KNMP, NHG, NVZA, ZN), and (semi-)government bodies. Revenue is generated through subscription licensing of the G-Standaard (annual recurring), self-serve web tools such as G-Standaard Flex (€2,270–€5,232/year), one-time and subscription fees for the invoerloket data entry portal, and add-on modules including maximum-price email services (€1,258–€1,510/year) and historical data files. All pricing is ex-VAT and indexed annually.

The firm employs 11–50 people and shows no disclosed institutional investors, parent company, or M&A activity. Its strategic posture is that of an entrenched industry utility: incremental productization of its data assets (self-serve filtering, insurer-facing web apps, historical files), a structural data partnership with KNMP's Medicines Information Centre for pharmacotherapeutic content, and continued monthly publication cadence through a publicly available production schedule.

Name

Z-Index

Legal name

Z-Index B.V.

Website

https://z-index.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Z-Index B.V. is a Dutch Trusted Third Party that maintains and publishes the G-Standaard, the authoritative Dutch healthcare product database covering 100,000+ medicines and devices used by all Dutch pharmacies, insurers, and software vendors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare pharmaceutical reference database

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), Information (51)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Master Data Management (MDM) & Patient/Provider Identity Data (HLACAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

FHIR/HL7 Data Repositories & Canonical Data Models (HLACAIAI), Healthcare Data Quality, Profiling & Observability (HLACAIAE), Medication Analytics, Outcomes & Cost Optimization (HLACAKAL)

Keywords

• Healthcare product database
• Pharmaceutical data management
• Medication information system
• Drug pricing database
• Healthcare data standards

Headquarters

HQ city

The Hague

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. G-Standaard Subscription: Annual subscription-based licensing for access to the complete G-Standaard database, distributed monthly to subscribers. Pricing varies by customer type and usage volume.
2. G-Standaard Flex: Web-based subscription allowing users without programming knowledge to filter information from the G-Standaard. Includes various modules and additional selection quotas.
3. Data Entry Portal (Invoerloket): One-time registration fee plus annual subscription for product responsible parties to submit product information to the G-Standaard.
4. Add-on Services: Monthly email services including historical add-on files, substance name add-ons, and maximum price notification services.
5. Custom Reports (Lijst op Maat): Custom-made data selections from the G-Standaard, available as one-time or monthly subscriptions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Z-Index manages the G-Standaard, a hierarchical Dutch healthcare product database containing information on over 100,000 licensed medicines, unlicensed medicines, vitamins, dietary supplements, homeopathic medicines, and medical devices. The database covers pharmacovigilance, pricing, logistics, and reimbursement data, and is distributed via monthly subscriptions alongside supporting web applications for data entry, custom selections, and pricing/claim-status management.

Product overview

Z-Index offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on the G-Standaard database. The G-Standaard is a hierarchical Dutch healthcare product database containing information on over 100,000 products including licensed medicines, unlicensed medicines, vitamins, supplements, homeopathic medicines, and medical devices. The core offering includes the monthly G-Standaard download distribution. Supporting web applications include the G-Standaard invoerloket for manufacturer data entry, G-Standaard flex for user-friendly data filtering, and web applications for health insurers (Preferentiebeleid and Prijzen). Add-on services include customized selections (Lijst op Maat), claim status overviews, historical add-on files, email services for maximum price monitoring, and Taxebrief corrections. The portfolio serves software vendors, healthcare providers, health insurers, product responsible parties, government entities, and industry organizations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• G-Standaard Database Hierarchical database containing detailed information on over 100,000 licensed medicines, unlicensed medicines, vitamins and dietary supplements, homeopathic medicines, and medical devices, covering pharmacovigilance, pricing, logistics, and reimbursement policies. Distributed to software vendors, healthcare providers, health insurers, manufacturers, and government bodies.
• G-Standaard Download Monthly subscription-based download of the complete G-Standaard database distributed to subscribers for integration into healthcare IT systems (xIS).
• G-Standaard Invoerloket Web application that enables manufacturers and other product responsible parties to submit and manage their product assortment within the G-Standaard, with tiered annual subscriptions from 1–3,000+ product packages plus a one-time registration fee.
• G-Standaard Flex Web-based selection tool that lets healthcare users filter and access G-Standaard information without programming knowledge, offering Basis, Farmaceutisch, and Prijzen/wet- en regelgeving modules with optional extra selections and add-on modules.
• Lijst op Maat Custom data selection service producing tailored extracts from the G-Standaard, delivered either as a one-time order or via a recurring monthly subscription.
• Overzicht aanspraakstatussen Overview of claim statuses for the VB/CO assortment in the Dutch healthcare system, helping healthcare providers verify reimbursement eligibility.
• Stofnamen bestand add-ons Add-on data file providing substance name information at the ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical) level for enhanced pharmaceutical classification of healthcare products.
• Taxebestand Standalone price-technical component of the G-Standaard containing pricing and tariff information for healthcare products.
• Webapplicatie Preferentiebeleid Web application allowing Dutch health insurers to submit their preferentiebeleid (preference policy) data to Z-Index for inclusion in the G-Standaard.
• Webapplicatie Prijzen zorgverzekeraars Web application that lets Dutch health insurers submit their price information to Z-Index for integration into the G-Standaard.
• Historisch bestand add-ons Historical add-on data file covering add-on information from 2017 to the present, for retrospective analyses of healthcare product add-ons.
• E-mailservice ontwerpregeling maximumprijzen Recurring email notification service providing recalculation of maximum prices alongside the AIP (Apothekers Inkoopprijs) of subscribers' assortment, delivered twice yearly.
• E-mailservice regeling maximumprijzen Monthly email service that alerts subscribers to exceedances of the Wgp (Wet geneesmiddelenprijzen) maximum prices for healthcare products.
• Taxebrief Correction bulletin containing corrections and/or supplements to published G-Standaard editions, sold for specific monthly editions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100,000 healthcare products registered in the G-Standaard database
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• KNMP (Royal Dutch Pharmacists Association) - Medicines Information CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe KNMP's Medicines Information Centre (Geneesmiddel Informatie Centrum) supplies pharmacotherapeutic information that is included in the G-Standaard database. This is a critical data partnership for maintaining medication safety information.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Cegedim: Cegedim is a French healthcare technology and data company offering drug databases, pharmacy software (WinPharma), and physician CRM. It is a broad incumbent operating healthcare informatics across multiple European markets, with comparable offerings to Z-Index's drug reference data and pharmacy workflow products.
• Elsevier (ClinicalKey / Gold Standard): Elsevier operates clinical drug reference and decision-support content (including former Gold Standard Drug Database) used by hospitals and pharmacy systems. It competes in the medication-information category at global scale, overlapping with Z-Index's drug-reference data value proposition.
• Wolters Kluwer (Medi-Span / Lexicomp): Wolters Kluwer provides clinical drug information (Medi-Span, Lexicomp) integrated into EHR and pharmacy systems globally. It competes with Z-Index in the drug-reference data category but operates at much greater scale across many countries and adjacent clinical decision support domains.
• IQVIA: IQVIA is a global healthcare data, analytics, and life-sciences technology company offering drug master data, reference information, and pharmaceutical commercial datasets. While much larger and broader than Z-Index, IQVIA serves many of the same healthcare software vendors and competes for the drug-reference data layer.

Regional players

• PharmaPartners: PharmaPartners (part of Nedap) supplies pharmacy information systems in the Netherlands that rely on G-Standaard integration. Comparable regional presence and downstream integration with the same Dutch healthcare data backbone.
• ChipSoft: ChipSoft is a major Dutch hospital EHR vendor (HiX) that consumes G-Standaard data for medication workflows. It is a downstream integrator — not a direct competitor — but the closest Dutch-region health-IT peer that depends on Z-Index data and shares the same customer ecosystem.
• Nictiz: Nictiz is the Dutch competence centre for healthcare IT standards and interoperability, including terminology, eHealth standards, and information-exchange specifications. It is a regional peer operating in adjacent Dutch healthcare data infrastructure, with overlapping customer base (insurers, providers, vendors) but a standards/policy remit rather than commercial drug data.

Direct peers

• First Databank (FDB): First Databank is one of the leading drug knowledge bases (medication clinical decision support, drug-interaction screening) embedded into US/EU hospital and pharmacy systems. It is a direct functional competitor to Z-Index's G-Standaard for medication data and decision-rule content serving software vendors.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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