An estimated $200 billion could have been saved last year if patients and clinicians improved the way they use medications, according to a new study from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. FULL STORY »
Prescription drug and device data-miner IMS Health has announced its fourth acquisition since March, purchasing Incential Software, a Raleigh, N.C.-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, for an undisclosed sum. FULL STORY »
IMS Health, a Danbury, Conn.-based prescription drug data-miner, has announced its third acquisition in as many months with the addition of cloud-based mobile sales and marketing systems provider 360 Vantage, Chandler, Ariz. FULL STORY »
Prescription drug data-miner IMS Health, Danbury, Conn., is adding social media content analysis to its repertoire, having announced the acquisition of Semantelli Corp., a social-media analytics company based in Bridgewater, N.J. FULL STORY »
Prescription drug data-miner IMS Health has announced its acquisition of Appature, a provider of marketing information for the pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer healthcare industries, according to a company statement. FULL STORY »
IMS Health, a Parsippany, N.J.-based provider of healthcare information, services and technology, said it has acquired PharmaDeals, a Web-based subscription database that gathers information about the pharmaceutical industry. FULL STORY »
The state of Vermont must pay a medical data-mining company $2.4 million in legal fees in a case in which the firm successfully argued that a state law trying to restrict its activities violated the First Amendment. FULL STORY »
TPG, a private-equity firm with investments in Iasis Healthcare and IMS Health, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire New Jersey drugmaker Par Pharmaceuticals for $1.9 billion. FULL STORY »
The Health Information Trust Alliance, a trade group known as HITrust formed to address data-security issues related to medical records, has created a work group on the de-identification of patient data. FULL STORY »
IMS Health, Danbury, Conn., announced the purchase of DecisionView, a San Francisco-based developer of software that tracks patient enrollment in clinical trials. FULL STORY »
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