Regions
MAIN/REGIONS
regions/
Regions
  1. Americas
  2. Asia & Oceania
  3. Europe
  4. Middle East & Africa
  1. Solutions
  2. Products
  3. Insights
  4. About
  5. Contact Us
MAIN/search
MAIN/Solutions
Solutions/
SOLUTIONS
  • Primary Intelligence
  • Commercial Analytics
  • Management Consulting Services
  • R&D Solutions
  • Contract Sales and Medical Solutions
  • MedTech Solutions
  • Oncology Solutions
  • Real World Evidence Solutions
  • Technology Solutions
  • Supply Chain Solution
  • Provider Solutions
  • Public Health Solutions
Primary Intelligence

Today there is more data than ever. Each set of primary and secondary data provides important insights, but that data needs to be integrated. Current market research solutions leave a gap because they are unable to integrate the depth and breadth of insights required in today’s complex markets. IQVIA's Primary Intelligence is the exception.

Learn More
Primary Intelligence Quick Links
Commercial Analytics

IQVIA provides segmentation and targeting, call planning and resource optimization, multichannel marketing, and performance management and compensation solutions for clients throughout the Middle East and Africa.

Learn More
Commercial Analytics Quick Links
Management Consulting Services

IQVIA can help you take the decisions that lead to success. With a wide array of management consulting services and a patient-centric approach, we can help you succeed in today's healthcare market.

Learn More
Management Consulting Services Quick Links
R&D Solutions

IQVIA brings together human data, data science and human science to harness advances in technology, analytics and human ingenuity and enable a more modern approach to clinical development.

Learn More
R&D Solutions Quick Links
Contract Sales and Medical Solutions

Healthcare is in a constant state of perpetual advancement and development, and healthcare businesses need to innovate and grow ahead of the market to succeed.

Learn More
Contract Sales and Medical Solutions Quick Links
MedTech Solutions

Today’s constantly developing technologies are pushing the boundaries of medical devices’ capabilities, adding new benefits and features that enhance patients’ lives and create new categories of buyers and influencers who play a larger role.

Learn More
Guiding through unprecedented innovations to reshape oncology

In the Middle East, oncology is increasingly becoming a major focus in healthcare. Today, it is the 6th highest selling therapy area and one of the fastest growing therapy areas in the region.

Learn More
You know your questions – let us bring you the right real-world answers

Your work promises the potential to improve health outcomes. At IQVIA, we strive to help you by providing you with the complete understanding, tools, evidence and communications you need to realize that potential. It’s an exciting time to reimagine what’s possible.

Learn More
Technology Solutions

With state-of-the-art technology and a global database, we help push the potential of human science higher and help our clients achieve it by improving healthcare professionals’ understanding of their patients’ needs.

Learn More
Technology Solutions Quick Links
Re-imagine pharmaceutical distribution and supply chain management

Digital disruption is empowering companies across industries with unbeatable competitive edge. Organizations that do not adopt and integrate digital technologies will experience debilitating disadvantages in a competitive marketplace.

Learn More
Provider Solutions

IQVIA's comprehensive suite of healthcare provider solutions equip you with latest tools and technologies needed to build a smart and sustainable health setup. Talk to our experts and let us help you get started on your pathway to sustainable growth.

Learn More
Provider Solutions Quick Links
IQVIA Public Health interventions work to improve the health of entire populations

IQVIA’s Public Health solutions offer powerful insights and innovative digital solutions with speed and agility to introduce modern approaches for public health surveillance and quality improvement.

Learn More
MAIN/Products
Products/
PRODUCTS
  • HCP Space
  • Hospital Information System
  • Mobile & Home Health
  • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Patient Level Information Costing System
  • IQVIA Health Insurance Management
  • SmartSolve eQMS: Enhance Quality Assurance and Control
HCP Space

Build deep HCP engagement journeys. Maximize digital engagement impact. Drive better brand outcomes.

Learn More
Hospital Information System

IQVIA’s cloud based solutions for healthcare providers and institutions are designed to minimize medical errors, increase physician efficiency, reduce costs, facilitate regulatory compliance and promote standardization of care to build a safer, more convenient way of managing healthcare.

Learn More
Mobile and Home Health Tech Solutions

IQVIA’s complete mobility suite for healthcare providers can help improve clinical teamwork, expand boundaries of care and drive better patient outcomes.

Learn More
Revenue Cycle Management

IQVIA can help you improve your billing and collection cycles, save processing time and help with better record keeping so that you can focus on providing the best patient care.

Learn More
Patient Level Information Costing System

IQVIA's PLICS, a patient costing solution, designed to help you better analyze your cost built using a bottom up Activity Based Costing methodology, developed by team of cost accountants specializing in Healthcare.

Learn More
IQVIA Health Insurance Management

An integrated platform that seamlessly connects patients, healthcare providers and payers to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and improve quality of care.

Learn more
SmartSolve eQMS: Enhance Quality Assurance and Control

The complete eQMS for the Life Sciences industry.

Learn more
MAIN/Insights
Insights/
BLOGS, WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES

Explore our library of resources spanning the healthcare ecosystem. Hear from IQVIA data scientists, doctors, researchers, and other experts on the topics, trends, and market developments that matter to you.

LEARN MORE
PODCASTS

Listen to our podcasts to hear from key opinion leaders and experts.

LEARN MORE

OUR LATEST WHITE PAPER

"Learn how digitalization has transformed the patient journey and why mapping the digital patient journey offers myriad of opportunities for pharma.

LEARN MORE
MAIN/About
About/
ABOUT IQVIA MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

The IQVIA team in the Middle East and Africa works to provide clarity in these dynamic markets.

LEARN MORE
NEWSROOM

Read the latest updates and press releases.

LEARN MORE

CAREERS

"Learn about work and life at IQVIA and find all the opportunities we have for your next step in your career journey.

Learn more
MAIN/Contact Us
Contact Us/
Blog
COVID-19: Leveraging technology to solve problems now and tomorrow
Technology has become a critical tool for governments, international health organizations, and populations to enhance our collective response to the crisis.
Amine Mansouri, Senior Principal, North, East, and West Africa, IQVIA
Apr 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting societies and economies across the globe, and creating unprecedented challenges for the healthcare industry. IQVIA is proud to be part of the fight against the disease, helping governments, healthcare workers, researchers, clinics, and pharmaceuticals better understand and address the virus. 

Around the world communities are taking drastic measures to try to stop the spread of this novel coronavirus through social distancing, curfews and lockdowns. Technology, therefore, has become a critical tool for governments, international health organizations, and populations to enhance our collective response to the crisis, and publish and receive reliable disease-related information, symptom guides, medical orientation and training, and more. 

Beyond just addressing COVID-19, technology is also at the center of our ability and commitment to ensuring that healthcare continues to move forward. Patients must continue to be seen, diagnosed and treated. Doctors must continue to receive information on treatments, innovations, and new ideas. 

Now more than ever, technology is both an immediate solution and a longer-term platform for human health. 

Technology, Health, and COVID-19

In several countries, health tech companies have designed Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots1, based on local governments and ministries of health guidelines, that provide the public with interactive information, answer FAQs and support COVID-19 symptom screenings and potential coronavirus case detection. AI has also learned to track the spread of the coronavirus by analyzing social media platforms, news reports and government publications, providing those fighting the virus with critical and accurate real-time updates.

Telemedicine has also been quickly adopted since the pandemic struck. E-consultation volumes have increased significantly, and telehealth platforms are being used to enable safe communication between isolated patients and their families. In fact, doctors are now being trained on conducting e-visits with patients, suggesting that this new paradigm can take hold in the long-term beyond the pandemic, and disrupt traditional doctor-patient interactions.

The Need for Holistic, Scalable, and Connected Digital Solutions

The current crisis has brought in many innovative use cases for existing technology. In Tunisia, to enforce the curfew and prevent the spread of the coronavirus, local authorities have deployed robots to check their awareness of lockdown rules and the reason for their movements. Other African countries, such as Kenya, have turned to mobile money as a public tool; A major telecom operator has joined forces with the country's central bank to make all person-to-person transactions of less than 1,000 Kenyan Schillings (10 USD) free for 3 months to reduce the physical money exchange in response to the pandemic.

As we look to how technology is helping in this current crisis, we would be remiss not to focus on creating more sustainable, scalable solutions that bring together all the players in the ecosystem. COVID-19 is compelling patients and healthcare providers to keep a safe physical distance, creating a challenge for quality care delivery. Healthcare must remain effective while being remote in crises such as the current pandemic. Doctors and health workers need to be able to monitor their patients remotely, provide at-home services when necessary and possible, and provide consultation without having to be physically present with the patient.

One tangible example of how technology is changing the face of healthcare through this pandemic can be found in Italy, one of the countries most affected by COVID-19. A Brescia-based hospital with 250 patients in intensive care ran out of valves that connect patients to breathing machines. A local 3D-printing2 company raced to the hospital, analyzed the valves, and, within three hours, delivered a prototype, tested (with positive results), and printed 100 valves in 24 hours, saving many lives. The 3D-printed valves costed no more than 1€ each, proving that innovation and affordability can sometimes go hand in hand.

In Morocco, several 3D-Printer companies3 are contributing to the collective effort by making, for free, hundreds of 3D-protective visors, which will be used to protect doctors working at the front during this period of crisis.

Certainly the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed gaps in medical infrastructure and resources of many countries, underscoring the need for more proactive adoption of technology as a critical tool in supporting and ensuring the availability and effectiveness of resources and logistics for any health system. As a community, we need to join together to build digital health solutions that are effective and efficient at handling needs through the care cycle and beyond. A new paradigm that provides patients with the attention and monitoring they need, enables the safe delivery of treatment, and provides the entire ecosystem with the ability to communicate and connect whenever they need to – in this crisis and beyond.

For more details on healthcare technologies and digital trends in Africa, please contact us.

 

 

1 Read more on Virtual Patient Communities: https://www.iqvia.com/blogs/2020/04/virtual-patient-communities-a-response-to-covid-19-and-other-infectious-diseases

2 https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/3d-printed-valves-covid-19-italy/

3 https://www.lereporter.ma/actualite-economie/innovation-des-visieres-imprimees-en-3d-fabriquees-au-maroc/

Contact Us