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Quintiles Ims Holdings Inc

A healthcare services company that helps drugmakers run clinical trials and make sense of medical data. It was formed in 2016 through a merger of equals between Quintiles, a contract research organization founded in 1982 by a biostatistics professor, and IMS Health, a healthcare data firm dating to 1954. The combined company briefly went by QuintilesIMS before rebranding as IQVIA — a name that stitches together the "I" from IMS, the "Q" from Quintiles, and "VIA," meaning "by way of."