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[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 ]
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 ...
In 2008, he became director of Quintiles Transnational Corp, a healthcare company in the field of clinical research. [5] In 2016, Quintiles merged with IMS Health, a health IT company, to become IQVIA. Connaughton became a director of IQVIA in October of that year. [5] Connaughton was appointed to the board of HCA Healthcare for a term through ...
Data compiled by American company Quintiles IMS showed China's share of global demand for immunosuppressant drugs, which are necessary to prevent the bodies of patients from rejecting transplanted organs, were approximately in line with the proportion of global transplants China said it performed. [8]
Gillings is the founder and former chairman of Quintiles, a contract research organization. [6] 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 ]
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."
The 5-quantiles are called quintiles or pentiles → QU; The 6-quantiles are called sextiles → S; The 7-quantiles are called septiles → SP; The 8-quantiles are called octiles → O; The 10-quantiles are called deciles → D; The 12-quantiles are called duo-deciles or dodeciles → DD; The 16-quantiles are called hexadeciles → H
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.