Interview with Elisabeth Beck, Managing Director, IMS Health Germany
Could you give us a brief introduction to IMS’ business model? What would you say are the main challenges encountered today in the German market for IMS? IMS has been…
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IMS was founded in 1954 in New York. The German subsidiary was registered in 1959. Today there are more than 100 branches with more than 7,000 employees. IMS applies leading-edge technologies to transform billions of pharmaceutical transactions collected from thousands of sources into strategic insights.
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