IMS Health
Summary
IMS Health is an international company that supplies the pharmaceutical industry with sales data and consulting services. IMS Health was founded in 1954 by Bill Froch and David Dubow. Today IMS has operations in more than 100 countries, a global workforce of 7,600+ employees, and revenues of $2 billion. It recently moved its headquarters from Fairfield, CT to Norwalk, CT.IMS collects pharmaceutical sales and prescription data from markets across the world. As of January 2007, they collect sales data from 75% of prescriptions in 100 countries. In the U.S. they are able to cover 90% of pharmaceutical sales. This allows IMS to cover over one million pharmaceutical products from over 3,000 companies.IMS also uses their own data to produce syndicated reports such as market forecasts.
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Interim Management Statement
This Interim Management Statement ('IMS') covers the third quarter of DMGT's financial year to 1st July 2012 and describes the Group's financial position and performance during the period, updated to the latest practicable date.
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ABM reports the total B2B media revenue grew 6.9% in 2011; digital revenue led that way according to the ABM
The Association of Business Information & Media Companies, known as the ABM, reported that its latest BIN report says that total revenue for B2B media companies in the U. S. grew up 6. 9% last year. The report is a combination of data from various sources including the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR), Inquiry Management Systems (known to publishers as IMS), and Outsell, which provides information on data sales.
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Big Tobacco Gets Top First Amendment Lawyer For New Suit
Tobacco companies are pulling out the big guns in their quest to stop the U. S. Food and Drug Administration's new graphic warnings for cigarette packaging. On Tuesday, a group of four companies filed a lawsuit with the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, charging that the scary new labelsviolate the First Amendment because they go far beyond a simple factual warning about the risks of tobacco.
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Future PLC : Interim Management Statement
7:00 AM: (FUTR) Interim Management Statement.
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Supreme Court Rules For Data Miner IMS Health
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of IMS Health and two other researchers, and against a Vermont statute that sought to prevent data about the drugs individual doctors prescribe from being used to market to those doctors without their permission.
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Supreme Court strikes down state drug data mining law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court struck down on Thursday a state law that prohibits the use of prescription drug records for marketing, in a case pitting free-speech rights against medical privacy concerns.
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Supreme Court Looks Skeptically At Prescription Privacy Law
A variety of bills are being debated in Washington now that would create some new rules for how to handle data and privacy in the digital age. But in the health care field, a few small states have already passed regulations that spurred a major clash with industry, which reached the U.
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Interim Management Statement
This Interim Management Statement ('IMS') covers the first quarter of DMGT's financial year, the three month period to 2nd January 2011. It describes the Group's financial position and performance during the period, updated to the latest practicable date.
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Supreme Court Health-Data Case Could Sway Online Privacy Debate
The Supreme Court has announced it will hear Sorrell v. IMS Health, a case relating to the sale of health data. Though not obvious at first glance, it’s a case that’s likely to have some influence on the growing debate over online privacy. In the case, pharmaceutical and data-mining companies are pushing back against a Vermont regulation that prohibits the selling of certain prescription information.
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BC Partners, Silver Lake Buying MultiPlan for $3.1 Billion
LONDON (Reuters) - BC Partners and Silver Lake are set to buy U. S. healthcare services firm MultiPlan, the private equity firms said on Friday, in the year’s largest secondary buyout worth about $3. 1 billion.
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