IQVIA’s CENTER FOR HEALTH DATA SEMANTICS

Modern solutions
to codify health
information

Harmonize data with consistent, transparent, and logically linked terms and concepts. Enable and scale your data innovation via consistent, transparent and linked terminologies and codes.

Semantic accuracy at scale

Coordinate how related health terms and concepts are described across different datasets at scale. Adopt a systematic, holistic  approach to achieving — and sustaining — the most usable data. Drive cost-saving efficiencies and unlock AI-driven insights to accelerate better patient health.

What can semantic accuracy do for you?

Healthcare data fragmentation is an enduring challenge for all stakeholders. Clinicians capture and share health information using words and language. IT systems rely on alphanumeric codes.

Organizations across the healthcare ecosystem use different standards and code sets.  Even within a single organization, multiple versions of the same code sets may exist, complicating data integration and management.

Work with IQVIA’s Center for Health Data Semantics to overcome data fragmentation:

  • Transformative strategies and modern tools: Ad-hoc approaches fuel “data debt”, hinder agility, and create barriers to AI-driven innovation. IQVIA helps you modernize how you maintain the meaning of terms and concepts in your data.
  • Information interoperability at scale: By dramatically improving your ability to codify, curate, and cleanse data, you become faster and nimbler in how you leverage health information within your organization and across the broader ecosystem.
  • Alignment with data coding standards: Implement an approach that aligns with applicable data coding standards, such as SNOMED CT, ICD-10, LOINC, CDISC, and MedDRA.

Comprehensive, strategic solutions tailored to your unique context and needs

Client success: NHS England

IQVIA’s Center for Health Data Semantics helped NHS England improve the quality of patient care delivery with an integrated solution for streamlining management and publication of SNOMED CT for more than 1 million concepts spanning clinical, drug, and pathology data. Key results included:

  • 99% reduction in release integration time:
    • Integration and release of authoring changes was reduced from 12 weeks to a daily automated build.
  • Increased productivity with 350% increase in release frequency: 
    • The number of releases increased from 2 to 7 annually.
  • Reduced authoring stress: 
    • More frequent but individually smaller releases enables the authoring workload to be smoothed out over the full year. There are now many smaller deadlines instead of two enormous ones.
  • Elimination of faulty releases:
    • Automated full nightly builds ensured ongoing quality assurance and has eliminated the need for patch releases.
  • 2-day turnaround for unscheduled emergency releases:
    • The system allows for a full, unscheduled release to be completed in 2 days, compared to months previously.

Achieve information interoperability and enable AI-powered innovation

  • All-in-one Approach: Define, customize, and map your unique data vocabulary and recognized standards — with consulting support and a technology platform tailored to your needs. You also can tap into IQVIA strengths across natural language processing, Defensible Data & AI, and data transformation solutions, as well as privacy-enhancing technologies.
  • Connect Multiple Healthcare Workflows: IQVIA brings decades of experience supporting diverse workflows — including regulatory submissions, clinical trials, safety monitoring, and real-world evidence. This experience is key to navigating complex and private sources of structured and unstructured health data.
  • Local and Global Presence: Get stable, reliable support from a large global company. IQVIA also offers unique expertise on the local nuances and regional interrelationships you must navigate when modernizing your approach to health data semantics.
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