IQVIA
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Contract Research Organization Pharmaceutical Service, AI, IT, Consulting |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founder | Dennis Gillings |
| Headquarters | Durham, North Carolina, U.S. |
Key people | Ari Bousbib (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products | Strategy & Operation Consulting, Support services for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical companies and individuals |
| Revenue | US$16.3 billion (2025) |
| US$2.18 billion (2025) | |
| US$1.36 billion (2025) | |
| Total assets | US$29.9 billion (2025) |
| Total equity | US$6.63 billion (2025) |
Number of employees | 93,000 (2025) |
| Website | iqvia |
| Footnotes / references | |
IQVIA Holdings, Inc. is an American company based in Durham, North Carolina, focused on health information technology and clinical research.
The company operates three divisions: Technology & Analytics (40% of 2024 revenues), focused on health information technology with access to 1.2 billion unique non-identified patient records globally, offers cloud-based customer relationship management application software as well as analytics consulting services all to the healthcare industry; Research & Development (55% of 2024 revenues), which is a contract research organization that handles all aspects of clinical trials including phase I through IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, post-approval services, regulatory affairs, protocol design, operational planning, study and site start-up, patient recruitment, project management, monitoring, data management and biostatistics; and Contract Sales & Medical (5% of 2024 revenues), which offers contract sales to healthcare providers and patient engagement services.
The company is ranked 282nd on the Fortune 500 and 680th on the Forbes Global 2000.
The company has been criticized for collecting and selling patient medical records even though the data is anonymized.
IQVIA was formed in 2016 from the merger of Quintiles, a contract research organization, and IMS Health, a healthcare data and analytics provider and the largest vendor of U.S. physician prescribing data. The IQVIA name is a combination of: I (IMS Health), Q (Quintiles), and VIA (by way of).