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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 ...

    By Taren Grom • Jan. 2, 2008
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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...

    By Taren Grom • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Artificial intelligence & machine learning

    After years of excited buzz around the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning, pharma has begun to realize the true implications and potential value of these technologies.

    By PharmaVoice staff
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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...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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 ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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, ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Innovation

    Innovation Drakeman. The engine that drives growth in the pharmaceutical industry is the discovery of new medicines for unmet medical needs. Much of the innovation in development now resides in the biotech sector. The challenge is to find the most efficient and productive ways to combine biotech’...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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 ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Letter from the Editor

    Letter from the Editor The Art of Communicating The popular Verizon ad, “Can you hear me now?” sums up one of the major roadblocks in any business partnership or relationship: miscommunication. No matter the relationship — client/provider, team/team, or person/person — the inability to clearly co...

    By Taren Grom • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Technology's Impact on Business Processes

    Phil Garland It is not enough to simply implement technology. Companies are going to have to change the way they do business. Bill Stevens Technology is an enabling component of the entire business. If the people within the business do not have the right information to act on a daily basis then a...

    By Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008
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    E-Media

    Teranode Releases Life-Sciences R&D Platform, Pathway Analytics Solution Teranode Corp. has released Teranode Design Suite 2.5 (TDS 2.5), an enhanced, closed-loop R&D platform used to integrate modeling into existing informatics infrastructures. The platform improves research productivity...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaOutlet

    Contributed by Norman M. Goldfarb The Worst Informed Consent Ever: How Physicians Can Coerce and Unduly Influence Patients Informed consent requires that the potential subject be fully informed and capable of making a rational decision to participate in a clinical study. The attempt to incorporat...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Adelene Perkins -- People-Centric: Developing a Unified Vision

    Early in her career, Adelene Perkins learned an important lesson about leadership: people work because they want to, not because they are told to. This truism has become a central plank of Ms. Perkins’ management style as she helps put together teams that will drive a company’s success. Central t...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaTrax

    Biotech Drugs Will Be Hard Hit By Benefit Management Biologicals, which have received minimal pharmacoeconomic scrutiny from payers, increasingly will face the same strict value-based review and administration processes of pharmaceuticals, according to a 2005 study from The Bruckner Group Inc. (B...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Chief Risk Officers: Time for a Seat at The Table

    VIEW on risk management Chief Risk Officers Time for a Seat at the Table In the wake of year one Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for U.S. public companies, there are greater challenges and increased expectations in addressing enterprise risk. Yet, compliance is not a matter of completing a one-year pro...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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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
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    On the Calendar

    On the Calendar April 17-19 Medical Manufacturing Summit The Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, Va. For more information, contact Caria Badenhorst, Marcus Evans, at 246-417-5321, e-mail [email protected], or visit medicalmanufacturingsummit.com. April 18-19 Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s, Pa...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Connecting the Dots

    Ensuring trial-supply management is an integral part of overall clinical-trials management and manufacturing can bring efficiency to development and save companies time and money. Discussions about increasing efficiency and reducing time lines in clinical development often focus on patient and in...

    By Denise Myshko • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Letter from the Editor

    Building Consensus Dendrite hosted its Second Annual Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing Leadership Conference in New York last October. One of the many highlights of the event was the keynote address given by President George H.W. Bush to more than 400 attendees, including heads of some of the wo...

    By Taren Grom • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Table of Contents

    on the cover Sea change: Turning the tide — the product life-cycle management wave Life-science executives are turning to product life-cycle management earlier in development to maximize product value and combat the impact of the dying blockbuster model. 12 FEATURES Connecting the dots Ensuring t...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Cover

    THE FORUM FOR THE INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE February 2005 www.pharmavoice.com INTEGRATING OPERATIONS Product Life-Cycle Management SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS with Peter Milner SUPPLY-CHAIN Management Download PDF

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008