Question

Name five companies that use health care clinical data and list the type of data they collect and its use.

Answer 1

Name of companies that uses health care data are:

• Accenture
• Novo Nordisk
• PPD
• Indegene
• IQVIA

Type of data they collect:

• Patient health record
• Patient/ disease registries
• Health surveys
• Clinical trial data
• Adverse effects
• Informed consent
• Clinical research forms

Patient health records can help heath care providers for better manage patient care. It helps to identify the effect, adverse effect and toxicity of medication.

Disease or patient registries are collections of secondary data related to patients with a specific diagnosis, condition, or procedure, and they play an important role in post marketing surveillance of pharmaceuticals.

Health surveys are a critical survey tool to measure a population's health status, health behavior, and risk factors, in addition to evaluating the quality of health care.

Clinical trials data are important for assessing new treatments for diseases, new ways to detect, diagnose, and reduce the chance of developing the disease.

Adverse effect helps to assess the safety boundaries of the drugs.

Informed consent: it is the agreement of the patient or individuation and researcher for getting involved in any clinical trial.