IQVIA’s CENTER FOR HEALTH DATA SEMANTICS

The hidden health data problem blocking innovation: inconsistent meaning

IQVIA helps you harmonize data with consistent, transparent and logically linked terms and concepts to drive analytics, AI and insights at scale.

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The Problem

Semantic inconsistency across health data

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.

Impact on business

The Hidden Cause of Data’s Biggest Problems

In this short video, see why health data semantics matters now. Inconsistent terminology across systems drains resources, slows time to market, complicates longitudinal analytics and limits the potential of AI-driven innovation.

The solution

How Harmonization Makes Data and AI Work

Health data semantics lets you coordinate the descriptions of related health terms and concepts across datasets at scale. Adopting this holistic approach to data usability can reduce costs and unlock AI-driven insights, ultimately improving patient health.

A new way to manage health data semantics

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 use 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.

Strategic solutions tailored to your needs

IQVIA combines advanced tools, deep content resources and global expertise to harmonize data. We help you create consistency, connection and clarity across your information ecosystem.


Platform

Connect, curate and standardize healthcare ontologies with our integrated IQVIA Health Data Semantics Suite, including the IQVIA Ontology Platform, Ontology Server and Ontology Authoring Tool.


Content

Benefit from IQVIA's global terminology and reference data capabilities, with 100 billion+ records added each year.


Expertise

Rely on our 20 years of experience advancing interoperability standards and ontology governance while transforming data management across the global health ecosystem. Shape your data strategy and governance with our consulting engagements, supported by hands-on execution of health data semantics solutions.

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Customer 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

350%

Increase in release frequency

2-day

Turnaround for emergency releases

0

Faulty release since deployment

Information interoperability enables AI-powered innovation

IQVIA combines global standards of expertise with scalable ontology tools to create consistent, interoperable data structures. Our solutions enable a unified data foundation that powers AI-driven insights and 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. Lean on IQVIA’s strengths across natural language processing, Defensible Data & AI and data transformation solutions, as well as privacy-enhancing technologies.

Connect 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 offers unique expertise on local nuances and regional interrelationships essential for modernizing your health data semantics.

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IQVIA Health Data Semantics Suite

Struggling with fragmented healthcare data?

The IQVIA Health Data Semantics Suite unifies ontology management, authoring and integration — providing a scalable foundation for semantic interoperability and high-quality health data.

Meet a Few of Our Experts

Andrea Splendiani, PhD
Head of Ontologies and Metadata

• Setting the foundations for scalable data and AI operations in global pharma and healthcare

• Decades of experience in data interoperability and semantic technologies
Christina Mack, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, IQVIA Real World Solutions

• Empowering healthcare innovation with advanced insights and robust epidemiologic approaches

• Co-chair of numerous industry committees and adjunct professor in applied and computational mathematics and statistics
Luk Arbuckle, CDPSE
Global AI Practice Leader

• Leading client solutioning and discovery of advanced applications in defensible data & AI

• Testified on crucial data issues, with prior regulatory experience and publications on defensible data and AI
Jay Nanavati, MS
Head of Advanced NLP

• Driving LLM and Generative AI methodology development in Healthcare-grade AI™

• Delivered cutting-edge applied research and pragmatic tool development
Calum Yacoubian, MD
Head of NLP Healthcare Strategy

• Combining clinical expertise with advanced AI technologies to enhance healthcare solutions

• Improving patient care, reducing costs and minimizing clinician burnout with AI

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