Booz Allen Hamilton Buys Epidemico

(RTTNews) - Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. (BAH) said Wednesday that it has bought Boston, Massachusetts-based Epidemico, Inc.

Epidemico is an informatics company providing early insights, continuous monitoring and consumer engagement for varied aspects of population health, including disease outbreaks, drug safety, supply chain vulnerabilities and more. By combining innovative data acquisition and analysis technologies with public health expertise, Epidemico delivers sophisticated surveillance systems and consumer-centric engagement tools.

The team at Epidemico, which is a commercial spinoff of Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a deep understanding of how to extract value from multiple large data sets and a proven ability to translate that expertise into a rapidly growing business. Likewise, the proprietary software platform is transferrable to multiple industries and business use cases.

The combination of Epidemico with Booz Allen's data science capability, and federal and commercial health teams enhances the firm's collective ability to support a broad set of client needs.