IQVIA

IQVIA Holdings, Inc. is an American health information technology and clinical research company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. The company provides clinical research services, healthcare analytics, technology solutions, and commercial outsourcing services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare organizations worldwide. IQVIA operates through three business segments: Technology & Analytics Solutions, Research & Development Solutions, and Contract Sales & Medical Solutions. Through its technology and analytics business, the company maintains access to more than one billion supposedly anonymized patient records globally, and provides healthcare data, analytics, and software services to life science organizations, health care centers like hospitals, and pharmacists worldwide. This participates in extending their access to personal health data around the globe. The company was formed in 2016 through the merger of Quintiles, a contact research organization, and IMS Health, a healthcare data and analytics provider. The combined company operated as QuintilesIMS before adopting the name IQVIA in 2017. The IQVIA name is a combination of: I (IMS Health), Q (Quintiles), and VIA (by way of).