We create value by:
- Delivering quality data and expertise.
- Leading with honesty and ingenuity.
- Building lasting relationships with clients and leaders in the field.
Our unique value
Carelon Research is the trusted partner in the industry, delivering data and generating evidence to improve healthcare.
We put clients first.
As the industry pioneer in real-world evidence, we build analysis-ready datasets, design studies, and deliver results — on time and within budget. We know what data is needed, why it is needed, and how to generate high-quality real-world evidence. That’s because our experts not only understand data and the science, but have spent years working in academia, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, pharmacies, and other clinical settings.
We bring quality data and expertise.
As the research arm of Elevance Health, one of America’s largest health insurers, we manage our own data source, the Healthcare Integrated Research Database, or HIRD®. We’ve built and managed the HIRD for more than 20 years, and it includes detailed information on more than 90 million individual lives. We know our data, and help you find the evidence you need to achieve your goals and advance healthcare.
We deliver a fresh, tailored approach.
We customize our approach to every project to ensure the data and evidence we deliver advance your business goals. We have long, strong relationships with regulators, patient advocates, research sponsors, health services providers, and payers — and can convene individualized meetings with these partners to drive projects forward. We also embrace innovation and apply new tools and new ways of thinking to projects. We’re in this to build lasting relationships so we can work together, year after year, to improve healthcare.
Our unique value: data, expertise, and partnerships
Our combination of data, expertise, and partnerships creates value for life science companies, government agencies, academic research leaders, health services providers, and payers. As part of Elevance Health, and as a Carelon company, we have access to a wealth of health data and an array of specialists in subjects ranging from behavioral health to oncology.
Data
We manage one of the largest, most comprehensive healthcare databases in the industry. The Healthcare Integrated Research Database (HIRD®) is a proprietary database created by Carelon Research. This unparalleled dataset includes health-related information for more than 90 million individuals, including historical information dating back to 2006, and is updated monthly.
Our experienced researchers link a variety of records to individual patients, ensuring a reliable and robust analysis-ready dataset for the generation of real-world evidence.
- Enrollment records
- Closed medical and pharmacy claims
- Electronic health records
- Laboratory results
- Enhanced oncology data
- Data on mortality, race, ethnicity, and social determinants of health
The HIRD is the foundation for end-to-end research services, even powering services such as survey administration, medical record extraction, and direct-to-patient studies. The HIRD also is the source of Carelon Real World Data: a subset of integrated data available for licensing.
Expertise
Our teams are the best in the business, bringing decades of research and clinical experience. To support our clients’ success, we build strong, diverse teams with the right specialized expertise for each project.
At Carelon Research, our teams are comprised of scientists, biostatisticians, pharmacists, public health specialists, and therapeutic area experts experienced across academic and clinical settings and the life sciences and payer industries. Together with our clients and industry leaders, we’ve published more than 3,000 studies in peer-reviewed journals.
Partnerships
There’s power in partnerships, and over a generation, we’ve built long, strong relationships across the healthcare continuum.
Through our parent company, Elevance Health, one of the nation’s largest insurers, we offer the perspective of a payer — and we engage a wide network of patient advocates, health services providers, public health scientists, research sponsors, and regulators to ensure appropriate stakeholder representation in the development of the datasets and evidence we deliver. Through this emphasis on relationships, we’ve built long-standing collaborations with many of the top life sciences companies and government agencies. Ninety percent of our clients are long-time partners.
Real-world data at your fingertips
Unlock the potential of Carelon Real World Data: our analysis-ready closed claims dataset linked with electronic health records - for the data quality, depth, and breadth that your research and real-world evidence requires.
Comprehensive research services
Our deep bench of researchers and therapeutic experts offer a broad range of services in health economics and outcomes research, health services research, safety and epidemiology research, clinical research, and patient-centered research.
