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IMS stood for Intercontinental Medical Statistics. It was the largest vendor of U.S. physician prescribing data. [2] [3] [4] IMS Health was founded in 1954 by Bill Frohlich and David Dubow with Arthur Sackler having a hidden ownership stake. [5] In 2010, IMS Health was taken private by TPG Capital, CPP Investment Board and Leonard Green ...
[28] [29] IMS Health shareholders received 0.384 shares of Quintiles common stock for each share of IMS Health common stock they held, leaving the split of ownership at 51.4% IMS and 48.6% Quintiles. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The merger was completed in October and the resulting company was a $17.6 billion company called QuintilesIMS. [ 9 ]
In the ancient Roman calendar, Quintilis or Quinctilis [1] was the month following Junius (June) and preceding Sextilis (August). [2] Quintilis is Latin for "fifth": it was the fifth month (quintilis mensis) in the earliest calendar attributed to Romulus, which began with Martius ("Mars' month," March) and had 10 months. After the calendar ...
In 1994, he took Quintiles public through an IPO. [6] Quintiles is the "largest global provider of clinical trials and commercial marketing services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry". [5] In December 2015, Gillings retired as executive chairman of Quintiles, but remains a director. [6]
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Its new name maintains parts of its original formation, with the ‘I’ representing IMS and the ‘Q’ taken from Quintiles. However, the latter and newest part of the name - ‘via’ - is representative of “seeking to inspire and ignite real change via a new path forward”, explains Ari Bousbib, chief executive officer of IQVIA."
However, in the mid-1990s the industry, through third-party prescribing data (e.g., Quintiles/IMS) switched to "script-tracking" [10] technologies, measuring the number of total prescriptions (TRx) and new prescriptions (NRx) per week that each physician writes. This information is collected by commercial vendors.
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