<p>Simply put, data is the lifeblood at Express Scripts, a $44 billion pharmacy benefits management company based in St. Louis.</p><p>The Fortune 100 company processes close to 1.5 billion prescriptions for some 300 million consumers per year, all the while analyzing the wealth of information that accompanies each order.</p><p>"As we track a prescription through data entry and the pharmacy process and into the fulfillment system, we're tracking all sorts of information that gets fed to an analytics team that is focused on process improvement," says CTO Jim Lammers. Internally, it's how the company speeds delivery and cuts errors, he says.</p><p>But Express Scripts also processes more than 1 billion pharmacy insurance claims annually, and they represent a gold mine of information that could help cut healthcare costs and address the multibillion-dollar healthcare problem created by people who don't take their medications as prescribed, says Lammers.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/applications/3457511/data-analytics-eye-popping-results-from-intel-ups-and-express-scripts/">Keep reading...</a></p>