Real-world evidence powered by integrated healthcare data
Carelon delivers data and research services that help life sciences companies inform regulatory submissions, product adoption, and commercialization strategies.
Connecting stakeholders to accelerate impact
As the research arm of Elevance Health, we combine scientific rigor and clinical expertise with a payer’s perspective. By engaging patient advocates, clinicians, public health experts, and regulators, we help ensure the evidence we generate is actionable and representative.
This integrated perspective enables us to:
- Align stakeholders across the healthcare system
- Generate evidence relevant to payers, providers, regulators, and patients
- Support faster and more informed adoption of research findings
Proven expertise. Expansive data.
Research and data offerings
As a full-service clinical research organization (CRO), we connect data, clinical expertise, and scientific rigor with patient perspectives to help solve complex clinical challenges and accelerate your impact.
Developed through decades of rigorous quality control, our data is designed to tackle complex healthcare challenges and empower you to generate meaningful real-world evidence and market access insights — quickly and effectively.
Demonstrate the value, safety, and effectiveness of your products in diverse patient populations. We deliver real-world evidence that supports better decision making throughout the product lifecycle and strengthens market access and adoption.
Research partnerships that deliver
We collaborate with research partners to reduce complexity, align evidence strategies, and accelerate timelines.
Innovative approaches to data collection: the PRIME study
In a large study focused on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes concerning preterm births, Carelon’s clinical research team employed an innovative and industry-leading approach to data collection.
Download our case study, or read the peer-reviewed publication .
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As we uncover and apply insights to drugs, devices, and programs, we help our clients impact the future of healthcare.
The right data is just the start
Data sharing
Carelon manages the Healthcare Integrated Research Database (HIRD®), a closed claims dataset linked with electronic health records, lab results, provider details, and information about social drivers of health (SDoH) for the data quality, depth, and breadth that your real-world evidence requires.
The HIRD is the foundation for end-to-end research services and a source of Carelon real-world data .
Expertise
Our multidisciplinary teams include scientists, biostatisticians, pharmacists, public health specialists, and therapeutic area experts with experience spanning academic, clinical, life sciences, and payer environments. Project teams are structured to align with each partner’s scientific, regulatory, and strategic objectives.
Partnerships
We maintain long-standing collaborations with leading life sciences companies and government agencies. We’re proud that much of our work is with repeat partners, which reflects their ongoing trust in our scientific rigor and operational execution.
Integrity
Our data and research meet the standards of peer reviewers, regulators, and payers. We prioritize methodological transparency, data quality, and responsible stewardship of health information.
Insights for life sciences partners
Explore how our approach to real-world evidence generation supports our life sciences partners' goals with insights and research shaping real-world evidence and healthcare decisions.
1 Internal data, 2026
2 Internal data, 2026
3 Healthcare Integrated Research Database (HIRD), 2026