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Healthcare Information provider IMS Health is expected to merge with leader in CRO space Quintiles Transnational by October 2016. IMS Health has agreed to buy Quintiles for USD 9 Billion & the merged entities total market capitalisation is worth USD 18 Billion. The merged entity, to be called Quintiles IMS Holdings, will be the house for best of pharma research skills and analytical data.

Though uncertainty regarding Brexit has resulted in the rise of temporary jobs in UK, it is still too early to predict the post-Brexit era. New immigration policy, labor laws and rights post-Brexit will be the key in determining how the staffing industry needs to adapt to the new Employment Landscape.

Unless one has been living under a rock for a while, chances are that the concept of ‘Internet of Things,’ commonly referred to as the IoT, is very familiar. Simply put, IoT is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology enabling communication or interaction with their internal states and the external environment. IoT is translating the fevered imagination of science fiction novelists into hard reality as the examples of connected home, connected car, wearables, smart lights, and smart washers are materializing all around us.

Gamification is a trending topic in the areas of patient disease awareness and education, HCP training for complex concepts and Patient Condition Management (Emerging). Pharma companies develop their own games with the help of interactive agencies and also fund innovative games.

With thousands of line items in place, maintaining optimum inventory levels per standards becomes a critical factor. Sheer diversity of spare parts, from fasteners to pumps and pulleys to lubricants, leads to huge amounts of data, consisting of line items with typical per unit spend size of a few dollars.