Verispan's Healthcare List Division Launches Pharmacy/Retail Clinic Database

YARDLEY, Pa.--(Business Wire)--Verispan's Healthcare List Division, widely recognized as a leader
in the industry, today announced the availability of its Retail Clinic
Database, a comprehensive database of pharmacy retail clinics and the
allied healthcare practitioners affiliated with these facilities.
These clinics are primarily staffed by nurse practitioners, physician
assistants, and sometimes physicians.

Verispan's Pharmacy/Retail Clinic Database is the only such
database and currently offers more than 830 clinic locations and
parent/satellite relationships. The file includes all practitioner
demographics, including clinic names and locations.

This service pinpoints the number of retail clinics and how many
practitioners are affiliated with them. For example, according to
Verispan's database, there are 921 clinics operating across 36 states
today. The attached chart shows the rapid growth since the first
clinic opened in 2006.

Below are the top five major players in the United States:

1. Minute Clinics are the fastest-growing pharmacy retail clinics,
with over 390 locations in the United States. Minute Clinics are
operated in CVS stores nationwide.

2. Take Care Clinics are operated in Target stores and have 101
locations.

3. The Little Clinic has 40 locations across the United States, in
Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

4. Redi Clinic has 33 locations in various Wal-Mart and H-E-B
locations.

5. Corner Care Clinic has 25 locations across the United States,
in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

While the pharmacy/retail clinic industry has yet to fully
establish itself, these clinics have shown tremendous potential in
providing inexpensive and exceptional healthcare to consumers.
Verispan will continue to collect information on this growing trend in
the healthcare industry.

For more information about the Pharmacy/Retail Clinic Database,
please contact Tina Galasso at 800-982-5613 or
tina.galasso@verispan.com.

About Verispan's Healthcare Lists

Verispan's Healthcare List Division is widely recognized as one of
the best in the industry. Verispan's list management and maintenance
expertise make our files over 97% deliverable. This is achieved
through data collection, data cleansing, data verification and
franchising agreements. This division maintains the following
comprehensive and up-to-date prescriber databases:

-- AMA franchise

-- AOA franchise providing demographic and state license
information on DOs

-- Allied healthcare practitioners, including nurse
practitioners, physician assistants, nurse midwives, certified
registered nurse anesthetists and clinical nurse specialists

-- Healthcare Market Index File on healthcare facility locations

-- Hospital-affiliated physicians and allied healthcare
practitioners

-- Vector One(R): Prescriber Extract (VOPEX), targeting
physicians and allied healthcare practitioners by the specific
drugs, markets or USC classes they prescribe

-- VOPEX MX, linking physicians to specific procedures and
diagnoses they are performing

Verispan helps clients target marketing programs to these
healthcare professionals to promote a product launch, drive brand
awareness, offer CME credits, invite them to an online market research
program, or receive a journal.

Please contact a Healthcare List account executive for more
information or log on to our Web site, www.ehealthlist.com.

About Verispan

Verispan, a healthcare informatics joint venture of Quintiles
Transnational Corp. and McKesson Corp., provides a broad array of
information products and services to the healthcare industry,
including sales targeting and compensation products; market research
audits; healthcare profiles; comprehensive managed care offerings;
data integration, warehousing and mining; data analysis and
consulting; direct mail; list services; disease management studies;
clinical trial investigator targeting and protocol recruitment
evaluation; healthcare outcomes; and cost/benefit analyses, among many
others. Verispan is also the nation's leading provider of
patient-centric longitudinal data, with dozens of products used by
clients spanning the industry.

Headquartered in Yardley, Pa., Verispan employs over 500 dedicated
healthcare information professionals. The company's Web site is
www.verispan.com.

Verispan
Clients
Tina Galasso
tina.galasso@verispan.com
or
Media
Tracy Everly
tracy.everly@verispan.com

800-982-5613
267-685-4300
www.verispan.com

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