Quintiles has received the 2013 Informatica Innovation Award for “Enterprise Data Integration” recognizing its efforts, through the Quintiles Infosario solution, to integrate both clinical research and healthcare data across numerous institutions. 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 aimed at enabling better-informed decisions from clinical trial planning and design to trial execution services, through post-market outcome studies. According to the company, 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.
 
“We are honored to have Quintiles Infosario recognized as one of the world’s leading data integration solutions,” said Quintiles chief information officer Richard Thomas. “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.”