Doug Long on the Changes He Has Seen and Retirement | PBMI 2024
The IQVIA vice president of industry relations and his talks featuring rapid-fire delivery of voluminous slide decks is a familiar figure in managed care circles. He is retiring in May 2025.
Doug Long, MBA, vice president of industry relations at IQVIA, discussed changes in the pharmaceutical industry over the course of his decades-long career after he gave the keynote address at the 2024 Annual National Conference in Orlando, Florida, last week.
Some of the major changes: The shift in spending from traditional to specialty drugs and from prescriptions being dispensed largely at retail drugstores to shipping via mail order pharmacies.
Long started with IMS Health in 1989. IQVIA is the company created by the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, a contract research organization, in 2016.
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