Optum Evidence Engine
Our consulting service enables market access and evidence generation for test and application developers.
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STACEY DACOSTA BYFIELD: Precision medicine has the potential to transform human health.
STACEY BROWN: By making it possible to prevent certain diseases.
JILL HAGENKORD: And to provide individualized treatment. This will lead to better patient experiences, better provider experiences, improved health outcomes, and a lower overall cost of care.
STACEY DACOSTA BYFIELD: But despite advances in research and a decline in sequencing costs.
STACEY BROWN: There are still huge barriers to making it readily available.
JILL HAGENKORD: We've developed a series of strategic businesses and capabilities to help solve these challenges, including the Optum Evidence Engine.
STACEY BROWN: It's a consulting service that helps labs generate impactful evidence and successfully navigate the coverage, adoption, and reimbursement path.
JILL HAGENKORD: Our team of experts has more than 70 years of combined experience in molecular diagnostics.
STACEY DACOSTA BYFIELD: We leverage our enterprise capabilities and assets by connecting to key stakeholders from across the industry and proprietary, real world data.
STACEY BROWN: We've published multiple academic studies, advanced promising precision medicine tasks that are helping employers, health systems, and health plans integrate innovative testing solutions.
STACEY DACOSTA BYFIELD: Optum Evidence Engine helps you develop the evidence.
JILL HAGENKORD: And market access strategy.
STACEY BROWN: Needed to accelerate the coverage and adoption of your technologies.
STACEY DACOSTA BYFIELD: Together, we can unlock the promise of precision medicine.
STACEY BROWN: And help people live better lives.
Our Services
Optum Evidence Engine provides industry-leading expertise in everything from assessing clinical needs to conducting retrospective studies. Our full suite of solutions includes:


- Research and development
- Market access and evidence strategy
- Market access strategy
- Medical policy landscape and gap analysis
- Coding, coverage and reimbursement insights
- Market insights
- Evidence strategy
- Evidence strategy refinement and development
- Intended use refinement
- Stakeholder feedback
- Payer and provider stakeholder research
- Market access strategy
- Real-world evidence generation
- Study design and execution
- Retrospective study (claims + clinical records)
- Prospective study
- Evidence dissemination
- Abstract and manuscript development
- Study design and execution
- Pilot and implementation
- Pilot exploration
- Value proposition and pilot development
- Pilot exploration
- Claim implementation
- Implementation study design
- Implementation exploration
- Pilot exploration
- Market uptake