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Talent Pool
Executive appointments and promotions in the healthcare industry Pharma Pool Dr. Julie Gerberding Merck Strengthens Executive Team Merck has named Julie Gerberding, M.D., as executive VP for strategic communications, global public policy and population health. In this newly created executive comm...
By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2015 -
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Last Word
Addressing the Needs of THOSE WITH RARE DISEASES Peter Saltonstall, President and CEO of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), talks about recent orphan drug approvals. PV: 2014 was a record year for orphan drug approvals. What are your predictions for the orphan drug space for 201...
By Peter Saltonstall • Feb. 1, 2015 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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Cancer research remains a prime focus for the industry and often leads to pharma’s most impactful breakthroughs.
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A New Frontier: Bioelectronics Medicines
The nervous system is essentially the body’s electrical and communication system that wires together all the nerves and organs — starting at the brain and central cord and branching out to every other part of the body. Technological advances have led researchers to consider how the nervous system...
By Denise Myshko • Feb. 1, 2015 -
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SHOWCASE FEATURE: Outsourcing: Outsourcing in a New Era
Companies continue to examine new ways to optimize operations and capitalize on efficiencies through partnerships. As the industry continues to move to a more patient-centric model, which encompasses all aspects of the continuum from R&D through commercialization, CROs and other service partn...
By Taren Grom • Feb. 1, 2015 -
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Talent Pool
Executive appointments and promotions in the healthcare industry Pharma Pool Stephen Aselage Retrophin Appoints CEO Retrophin has appointed Stephen Aselage as CEO; he has served as the company’s interim CEO since Sept. 30, 2014. Mr. Aselage has more than 30 years of pharmaceutical and biotechnolo...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2015 -
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C-Suite: Clinical Services
We asked C-suite executives throughout the clinical services ecosystem to provide their insights on what the biggest opportunities for innovation are, what the biggest barriers are, and identify a recent innovation that is improving the process. Dr. Martine Dehlinger-Kremer Global VP, Medical an...
By Taren Grom • Jan. 1, 2015 -
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R&D Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing in Pharma
Companies are looking at nontraditional ways of collaborating to access new insights that could lead to innovative therapies. There is a growing movement within the industry toward open access and crowdsourcing scientific information to accelerate research and development. This open environment r...
By Denise Myshko • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Augmented Reality: An Overlap Between the Virtual and the Real World
Augmented reality can take technology to a new level to improve patient outcomes and the healthcare journey. Augmented reality, the technology originally popularized as part of simulators and virtual reality games more than a decade ago, is gaining traction today in the pharma space. AR is relate...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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The Power of the Patient: The Era of Healthcare Consumerism
The step-change towards healthcare consumerism means that healthcare providers are increasingly targeting their products towards patients to help them become more engaged in their own healthcare decision-making along their journey as a patient, focusing on quality and convenience. With this in mi...
By Tim Davis • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Healthcare Storytelling Delivery: In the Digital Age
If you represent a brand, you must tell a story about the features and benefits of your project, so that your target user can make sense of it. Yesterday, a woman named Sharon dragged herself out of bed and shuffled to the shower. She turned on the water and massaged shampoo into her hair. And as...
By Buddy Scalera • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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The Future of Healthcare is Wearable
EHR is connecting our healthcare, the Internet of things is connecting our world, and now wearables are connecting everything else. With health data becoming increasingly more standardized and accessible, there is a future where healthcare is personalized not just to our health, but also to our l...
By Matt Balogh • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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E-Solutions as Part of a Multi-channel Strategy: An Integrated Approach to Reach the Physician
Integrated channel management offers an approach to combine e-solutions and traditional channels into a customized and cost-effective communications and optimization mix. With ever-increasing competition for healthcare providers’ time, attention, and the escalating challenge of access, the tradit...
By Peter Dussias • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Digital Solutions: A New Interface
We need to turn the discussion away from digital solutions, data strategy, or traditional channels and realize that it is all channels of interaction. The relationship between digital and traditional are not independent with one succeeding over another, but interdependent with both supporting the...
By Jeremy Shubert • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Letter from the Editor
2015 and beyond… This is the time of year when we all take a moment to reflect on the events of the past year and what lies ahead. In 2014, the industry went through a burst of deals between several major players — Novartis, Eli Lilly and Company, and GlaxoSmithKline — as they look to refocus on ...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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UpFront
INDUSTRY at Large Bayer Helps Students Pursue Science Bayer Corp. presented a $100,000 two-year grant from the Bayer USA Foundation to Students 2 Science (S2S), an innovative STEM education organization that introduces elementary, middle, and high-school students from northern and central New Je...
By Denise Myshko • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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What's New
Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide Acquires Element Marketing Group TrendIng Now: Ogilvy CommonHealth extends focus on reimbursement and market share challenges. Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide, the health behavior experts of Ogilvy & Mather, has acquired Element Marketing Group (EMG), a market acce...
By Ann Grey • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Year in Preview: On the Horizon: Looking Ahead…
Experts from across all sectors of the industry provide their input on the trends in 2015 that will have the biggest impact on the industry, and how they will shape the future of healthcare. For this year’s special Year in Preview issue we took a slightly different tact than in years past. We are...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Talent Pool
Biotech Pool Dr. Annalisa Jenkins Dimension Therapeutics Names CEO Dimension Therapeutics, a gene therapy company focused on developing novel treatments for rare diseases, has apppointed Annalisa Jenkins, MBBS, MRCP, CEO. Dr. Jenkins succeeds interim CEO Thomas Beck. Dr. Jenkins brings to Dimensi...
By Ann Grey • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Electronic Health Record: A Focus On Patient Benefits
When we think of the positive impact of electronic health record (EHR) adoption, we often focus on the increased efficiency of the medical practice or additional convenience for healthcare providers (HCPs). We do not often associate those benefits with our most important target: the patient. Curr...
By Eugene Lee • Sept. 27, 2014 -
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Embracing Co-Creation to Better Connect
Many patient and caregiver campaigns fail to resonate with their intended audiences. Innovative collaboration methods and co-creation with patients and caregivers can add authenticity to communications and elevate brands. Do you remember the telephone game when you were a kid? One person starts t...
By Dan Bobear • Sept. 27, 2014 -
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Transdermal Delivery: Winning Patient Preference
The pharma landscape continues to be crowded and competitive, with more emphasis than ever before on delivering improved patient outcomes at a competitive price. In light of this, pharmaceutical companies must not only deliver products that effectively treat patients’ problems, but also prioritiz...
By Ingrid Blair • Sept. 27, 2014 -
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SHOWCASE FEATURE: Patient Solutions
As healthcare systems begin to pay for outcomes rather than products, patient-centric solutions and services will play a key role in the race to capture value. From wearables to improved drug delivery devices, from apps to EHR platforms, from patient trackers to packaging, the number of solution...
By Taren Grom • Sept. 27, 2014 -
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Vested Outsourcing Imperative
Managing the Talent Supply Chain Large life sciences companies today face many challenges in acquiring and managing talent to meet their business imperatives. The first decision to be made is always the same, whether the workforce contains full-time employees, contingent workers, independent cont...
By Kevin D. Duffy • Sept. 27, 2014 -
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SHOWCASE FEATURE: Supply Chain: Talent Management: A Different Supply Chain Issue
A sound workforce strategy furthers a company’s business agenda and generates results. When the topic of supply chain management is discussed, the conversation typically is about manufacturing and distribution issues. But today one of the most pressing challenges facing CEOs is the talent supply ...
By Taren Grom • Sept. 27, 2014 -
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Colombia Emerges as an Attractive Pharma Market
With a growing interest in attracting R&D and continual economic growth, Colombia is seen as an attractive market for pharmaceutical companies. The Republic of Colombia is evolving from an emerging economy, having enjoyed an economic turnaround since 2000, when it was perceived by economists ...
By Kim Ribbink • Sept. 27, 2014
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