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IQVIA SmartSolve® was named "Best New Technology Solution for Drug Development" by the 2023 MedTech Breakthrough Awards
Don Soong, Senior Director and General Manager, Quality Solutions, IQVIA
Jul 10, 2023

For a company to have a robust quality system, it must be integrated and harmonized to maintain regulatory compliance, improve product quality and ensure patient safety. As part of its 7th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program, which honors the leading technology, companies, and products in the global health and medical technology industries, MedTech Breakthrough has chosen IQVIA's SmartSolve eQMS platform as the "Best New Technology Solution for Drug Development". IQVIA's SmartSolve platform simplifies quality management with a complete enterprise quality management system (eQMS) and helps organizations manage and execute global life science processes by integrating quality, regulatory and safety processes intelligently, and cross-functionally.

MedTech Breakthrough Awards recognize innovation, hard work and success in a range of healthcare and medical technology categories, including Telehealth, Clinical Administration, Patient Engagement, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Virtual Care, Medical Devices, and Medical Data, among others. In total, over 4,000 nominations were submitted from 17 countries around the world this year.

A powerhouse of connected intelligence: an eQMS designed to simplify quality management.

IQVIA is the first to offer intelligently connected, cross-functional and closed-loop processes across multiple quality, regulatory and safety solutions. SmartSolve workflows interface seamlessly with IQVIA’s RIM Smart for Regulatory, Vigilance Detect for social monitoring. Streamlining process management and optimizing time to focus on customer, commercial and compliance activities. Additionally, Regulatory Intelligence is weaved throughout operational activities to detect regulatory updates and initiate actions and manage change.

By automating a single process or optimizing a quality management program, SmartSolve's eQMS platform is designed specifically for life sciences organizations. IQVIA’s solution is used by more than one million users to simplify processes, accelerate regulatory approvals, facilitate collaborations and streamline global control. By utilizing IQVIA's Connected Intelligence approach, the eQMS can improve accuracy, speed and compliance by driving operational efficiencies.

In a rapidly changing global environment, MedTech quality decision-makers face constant challenges managing complex processes and resources and ensuring compliance. Using SmartSolve's eQMS, businesses can streamline quality compliance management, drive continuous improvement across manufacturing, distribution and sales, and focus on "go-to-market, grow-in-market, stay-in-market" organizational priorities. By serving as the central hub of continuous improvement, SmartSolve helps companies develop a compliant quality management system. It is essential to eliminate siloed quality systems, improve harmonization, reduce total quality costs and enable informed, data-driven decision making to scale and optimize a quality system.

A company can deploy and optimize an eQMS end-to-end with SmartSolve. Aside from providing professional services based on IQVIA's expertise in quality systems, processes, and regulatory insight, IQVIA provides professional services to help organizations improve their QMS processes. Depending on the specific needs and complexity of each organization, their deployments are tailored accordingly. In addition to pharmaceuticals and medical devices, the team has experience implementing and supporting technology and regulatory processes across multiple industries. The support services include process harmonization and solution design, data migration and integration, project management and collaboration, as well as testing, validation, and go-live support.

By intelligently and cross-functionally integrating safety, regulatory and quality information, IQVIA simplifies global life science processes and their execution. We offer the most comprehensive closed-loop process integration available, whether you want to automate one process or optimize your entire quality management system. By using this platform, your organization can stay compliant with regulatory requirements and continually improve. By integrating eQMS with IQVIA Vigilance Safety with RIM Smart regulatory management, it becomes an all-in-one connected intelligence powerhouse.

To learn more about why IQVIA Smart Solve was selected as a winner, read the press release. To learn more about the benefits of the IQVIA SmartSolve platform, visit our site.

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