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 ...

IMS Health’s IPO raised more than $1.3 billion Friday by selling 65 million shares for $20 apiece. Shares quickly rose to $23 during Friday’s trading. Like Castlight Health, whose $3 billion public ...

IMS Health filed for an initial public offering last week, which may raise as much as $1 billion for the healthcare data and consulting firm. IMS Health was acquired in 2010 by private equity firms ...

VNU, owner of the market research firm A.C. Nielsen, is close to a deal to buy data provider IMS Health for $6.3 billion in cash and stock, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources it didn’t ...