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Global Issues
Global Issues Bua. Corporate citizenship in the global society will face increasing pressure to provide innovative pharmaceutical products to third-world countries at a discount and to provide products that have no IP protection in the interest of public health. This will create opportunity losse...
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Cover
PharmaVOICE The Forum for the Industry Executive Year In Preview: 2005 More than 100 experts talk about the industry’s future www.pharmavoice.com December 2004 Special Issue Volume 4 Number 12 Download PDF
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Table of Contents
Contents Kristine Nash-Wong, Marketing Manager at HealthMedia, speaks about reputation enhancement. Dr. Thomas Wicks, VP of Regulatory Affairs at Odyssey Pharmaceuticals, talks about continuing treatment innovation while limiting costs. Scott Szwast, Sector Marketing Manager at UPS Supply Chain S...
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Medicare
Medicare Campbell. Executives will continue to prepare for the new regulations approved under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA). These regulations will take effect as scheduled on Jan. 1, 2006. Before the full benefit’s official start, however, the industry f...
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Letter from the Editor
2005 Year In Preview Taren Grom In keeping with PharmaVOICE’s mission of providing insightful and provocative commentary on the business practices, strategies, and services that affect the life cycle of products from molecule through market, it is our pleasure to publish the first annual Year in ...
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Introduction
The Pulse of the Industry By Taren Grom This first annual PharmaVOICE Year in PreVIEW is designed to provide an overview of the challenges and trends expected to impact the life-sciences industry in the coming year and beyond. For this special forum, a distinguished list of more than 100 industry...
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Business Models
Turett. The pharmaceutical industry needs to resolve multiple bipolarities: being a business and being a public utility; being doctor-focused and being consumer-focused; and being about medical innovation and being about marketing. The industry has begun a process of self-reinvention that in 2005...
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Medical Education
Medical Education Nash-Wong. Last year’s predictions on regulatory changes had us believing medical education was a thing of the past. Not so, if one considers the fact that physicians continue to attend educational meetings, despite limited food budgets and a ban on spouses. So rather than forec...
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Multifunctional Teams
Multifunctional Teams Wilson. Historically, the pharmaceutical industry has faced two hurdles: achieving product registration and securing reimbursement. Today, demonstrating product value is becoming a much stronger issue. It’s not just a matter of product price, but the impact on total cost of ...
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Technology
Technology Cauwenbergh. Ideally, predictive tools, including assays, computer modeling techniques, and biomarkers could shorten development time, reduce the cost of development, and increase the accuracy of diagnosis, making sure that the right patient gets the right drug because of proper diagno...
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Risk Management
Risk Management Turett. The term risk management implies a defensive, prepare-for-the-worst strategy. While defensive preparation is certainly important, taking a fresh look at conducting business in a “patient-first” manner will reduce the need to implement a defensive approach. In other words, ...
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Culture of Compliance: Cutting Through the Confusion
Culture of Compliance: Cutting Through the Confusion A few years after the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) code and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) guidance, and the more recent implications of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCM...
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Complex Challenges: Strong Leaders
Today’s life-sciences industry is a complex, ever-evolving amalgamation of serious challenges to be met and surpassed. To forge ahead and succeed, the industry needs strong leaders who possess character, a commitment to public health, business acumen, and the willingness to mentor the next genera...
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Confluence Marketing: A Union of Forces for a Shared Outcome
Confluence Marketing: A Union of Forces for a Shared Outcome Confluence marketing is a philosophy and a process for sharing ideas across key customer groups and breaking down traditional divides. It is precisely at the confluence of these groups that true marketing power is unleashed, and when th...
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PharmaTrax
Sales, Marketing, and R&D Trends from Industry Analysts Pharmaceutical Companies Rethink Consumer Marketing Strategies in 2005 Facing increased scrutiny from the federal government and the public, pharmaceutical companies are looking beyond direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing to more effective...
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Letter from the Editor
Facing industry challenges Healthcare advertising agencies, service providers, and companies offering strategic consulting to pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies are grappling with the challenges facing their clients: shrinking profit margins, fewer drugs in the pipeline, consolidation, he...
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Table of Contents
on the cover Making metrics matter: The changing paradigm of R&D metrics As the pharma industry comes under greater scrutiny, everything from discovery processes to R&D productivity to profit margins is subject to review. Metrics systems are being implemented to realize efficiencies and b...
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E-Media
ISB and IBM launch Human Proteome Folding Project on World Community Grid The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), in partnership with IBM, United Devices, and the University of Washington, has launched the Human Proteome Folding Project on World Community Grid. This project, the first to run on ...
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For Art's Sake
Each month, this department pays homage to memorable advertising and marketing campaigns. The highlighted executions have been identified by leading creative executives for their noteworthy use of copy, art, photography, whimsy, uniqueness, etc. — in combination or as single branding elements. Cr...
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What's New
HMP Launches Arthritis Practitioner HMP Communications is launching Arthritis Practitioner in May 2005. The publication will have editions in July, September, and November. The journal’s audience is comprised of more than 32,000 nurse practitioners and physician assistants that are profiled as hi...
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What's on Your Mind -- Opinions
Opinions Leadership Development In demanding times, leadership is a competitive edge. Good leaders provide opportunities for others to grow their communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and other related skills. Leading is setting direction and guiding others to follow that direction. Go...
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What's New
Agency Veterans Launch Flashpoint Medica The agency’s mission is to ignite and spark new opportunities in pharmaceutical marketing. Risa Bernstein and Charlene Prounis are once again embracing the entrepreneurial spirit through the cofounding and launch of Flashpoint Medica, an agency with a pass...
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For Art's Sake
Each month, this department pays homage to memorable advertising and marketing campaigns. The highlighted executions have been identified by leading creative executives for their noteworthy use of copy, art, photography, whimsy, uniqueness, etc. — in combination or as single branding elements. Cr...
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What's New
inChord Establishes The Navicor Group New agency to offer expertise in oncology and immunology. inChord Communications Inc. has launched The Navicor Group, a new advertising agency focused exclusively on companies marketing oncology and immunology products. “Today there are more cancer therapies ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008