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IQVIA

iqvia.com · Healthcare · IQV

Ranked 411 of 2,047 companies in the study

40Overall score
  • Visibility29
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment79
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness21
What this means for IQVIA

AI assistants name the company in 11.7% of answers, more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 40 out of 100, ranking 411th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the healthcare market: none named IQVIA. AI assistants named it in 7 of 60 answers (11.7%). The typical healthcare company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, IQVIA ranks 20 of 105 in its sector.

Named by AI in
11.7%
7 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
53.8%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
10 of 105
by overall score, where the typical healthcare company scores 31
How IQVIA compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
29

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
1

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
79

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with healthcare

105 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score40
Ranks 10 of 105. Typical company: 31
Named in answers12%
Ranks 20 of 105. Typical company: 3%
AI readiness21
Ranks 53 of 105. Typical company: 21
What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

“Best technology platforms for accelerating drug development in the US healthcare industry”

Based on current developments in the pharmaceutical industry, here are the best technology platforms for accelerating drug development in the US healthcare sector:

Key Technology Platforms

Clinical Operations & Regulatory Compliance

Veeva Systems is the industry-standard platform for clinical operations, regulatory affairs, and quality management in biopharma, particularly for clinical trials management and regulatory submissions across the drug development lifecycle.

AI-Enabled Drug Discovery

AI drug discovery platforms use artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learn …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

IQVIA
87.5%
PPD (Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific)
12.5%
Syneos Health
0.0%
Parexel
0.0%
ICON plc
0.0%
Labcorp Drug Development (formerly Covance)
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Perplexity
3/15
Claude
2/15
OpenAI
2/15
Gemini
0/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.

To reach level 1:
  • 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
36 of 100
  • robots.txtNot met

    Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 15 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.iqvia.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
42
intuitionlabs.ai
31
mckinsey.com
14
pharmaphorum.com
14
prezent.ai
11
deloitte.com
9
lifebit.ai
9
aws.amazon.com
9
iqvia.com (its own website)
8
worldmetrics.org
7

In the study as S&P 500.

Every question, and where the company came up (4 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Why might a pharma analytics dashboard show inconsistent patient outcome data?
  • How do AI-powered life sciences analytics compare to traditional consulting services?
  • Best technology platforms for accelerating drug development in the US healthcare industry
  • Alternatives to full-service life sciences consulting for small pharma companies
  • What are other ways to access real-world evidence if you can't use specialized analytics platforms?
  • Examples of using technology solutions to enhance patient recruitment in clinical trials
  • Is investing in advanced analytics worth it for mid-sized biotech companies?
  • Are there affordable options for cloud-based healthcare data management solutions?
  • Typical costs for implementing enterprise analytics platforms in life sciences
  • How can advanced analytics improve time-to-market for new treatments?
  • What are the most effective data analytics solutions for pharmaceutical research?
  • Should healthcare organizations outsource technology solutions for clinical trials?
  • Common issues when integrating healthcare data from multiple sources
  • Clinical data analytics vs real-world evidence platforms: what's the difference?
  • Top trends in data-driven innovation for biotech and healthcare organizations
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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