IQVIA receives €7m Italian GDPR fine over coded patient records
By Giorgi Dvalishvili ( October 2, 2026, 16:15 GMT | Insight) -- IQVIA has been fined €7 million under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, after Italy’s privacy regulator found that its coded database contained health data that could be linked to around a million patients. The decision signals that health-data companies could remain subject to GDPR obligations where detailed records and patient codes allow individuals to be singled out, even if direct identifiers have been removed.Health-data analytics company IQVIA Solutions Italy has been fined €7 million under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, after the national privacy regulator found that a database it treated as anonymous contained health information that could be linked to about a million patients (see here)....
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