Introduction

Many companies have sustainability goals and we are hugely appreciative and supportive of this.

Some customers have asked if we can help achieve their goals…

We would like to calculate the environmental sustainability in using ClinSpark, moving from paper to completely electronically based source documentation and lab integration.

Can ClinSpark provide any data on the following over time while using ClinSpark eSource?

• Amount of carbon emissions reduced

• Amount of water conserved

• Amount of wood saved

• Amount of waste eliminated

This is a difficult question for us to address for two reasons:

• We don’t have data on the costs of doing this using traditional paper-based approaches

• We have not analysed the environmental footprint of developing, maintaining and supporting ClinSpark nor detailing and measuring operational efficiencies that users may expect to achieve once they adopt it

IQVIA’s Position

More broadly, outside the scope of just ClinSpark,

IQVIA is committed to sustainability and you can find more information here:

Suppliers

Some of the key suppliers we use to develop and support ClinSpark have clear sustainability goals.

AWS

See AWS for example:

Innovation is key to achieving sustainability goals—challenges such as decarbonization of operations to water conservation are addressed through technologies that drive sustainable transformation. AWS enables customers to build sustainability solutions ranging from carbon tracking to energy conservation to waste reduction, using AWS services to ingest, analyze, and manage sustainability data.

Atlassian

Atlassian…

We’ve committed to achieve net zero by 2040

To get there, we’ve set near-term science-based targets to limit warming to 1.5° C.