Pursuing claims-based data on what happens to patients taking their drugs, pharma companies have been striking pacts with payers and PBMs. Now, a heavyweight in the research field, IMS Health, has ...

Once again, a drug-related legal battle stands to change the business landscape. The Supreme Court may hear a pharma case--namely, a court fight over data-mining--that could revamp the way all sorts ...

The company's intangible assets--its proprietary data sets, technology, expertise, and reputation--place Quintiles IMS well ahead of its closest competitors. IMS Health's legacy business compiles ...

IBM later this month plans to release Version 10 of its Information Management System (IMS), a 39-year-old database originally built to help land men on the moon. IMS is a combination hierarchical ...

BMC Software has acquired the portfolio of IMS (Information Management System) database products and customers from NEON Enterprise Software, a mainframe management software company. IMS is a database ...