Quintiles received the 2013 Informatica Innovation Award for “Enterprise Data Integration” through the Quintiles Infosario solution, to integrate and master both clinical research and healthcare data across numerous institutions and at a scale never before accomplished in the biopharmaceutical industry.

The Informatica Innovation Awards honor organizations that have demonstrated leadership through the application of Informatica technologies that yielded significant business results.

Quintiles Infosario integrates data, systems, processes and Quintiles’ therapeutic expertise to unlock faster, better-informed decisions from clinical trial planning and design to trial execution services, through post-market outcome studies.  It allows for scientific and operational design to inform and optimize operations based on real-time alerts and data insights, mitigating risk, while improving patient safety, productivity and time to market.

 “At the core of Quintiles Infosario is our data factory, which integrates a wide variety of clinical, healthcare and operational data across a significant number of sources ranging from pharmaceutical companies to hospital and care provider networks. Being able to combine this data and add context/meaning results in highly actionable analytics, which our customers really appreciate,” said Quintiles chief information officer Richard Thomas.