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    Where eClinical Meets Business Process

    14 October 2008 VIEW on ESolutions ECLINICAL Early electronic data capture focused on finding efficiencies in data management activities, such as data entry and cleaning. When eClinical hit the mainstream, it delivered a clear view of complete trial data on a realtime basis, enabling clinical tri...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Oct. 24, 2008
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    Table of Contents

    4 October 2008 VIEW on ESolutions TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Editor The Forum Hitting a MobileTarget: New technologies, such as social networking and wireless mobile applications, have the potential to connect pharma with consumers, patients, and physicians more quickly and effectively tha...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Oct. 24, 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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    Joe Jimenez: Straightforward and Consumer Focused

    BY KIM RIBBINK COMPLETE The Package With an ability to step back from the protracted machinations that often prevail at pharma companies, is leading Novartis with a focus on the customer and a commitment to meeting goals and priorities. JOE Jimenez Sometimes it’s the simplest observations that he...

    By Kim Ribbink • Sept. 30, 2008
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    Life After the Focus Group

    BY ROBIN ROBINSON IS THE FOCUS GROUP DEAD OR JUST DECLINING? While some people say the focus group is dead, others say it will never entirely disappear. Their opinions hinge on what position they hold in the market research process and what objective the research is trying to meet (turn to page 3...

    By Robin Robinson • Sept. 30, 2008
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    On the Calendar

    October 15 3rd Leadership Summit on Medicare Enrollment and PDE Data Reconciliation Hilton Old Town, Alexandria, Va. PharmaVOICE subscribers receive $300 discount; register using keycode HYU957. For more information, contact Jodi Bova, Center for Business Intelligence, at 781-939-2563, email jodi...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 30, 2008
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    E-Media

    NEW ELECTRONIC AND WEB BASED APPLICATIONS, SITES, AND TECHNOLOGIES inVentiv Health has relaunched The Rx Law Book, an online library that provides pharmaceutical companies with convenient, centralized access to comprehensive state and federal regulatory information pertaining to product marketing...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 30, 2008
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    What's New

    NEW HEALTH CARE RELATED PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND COMPANIES Julie Kampf has launched Career Central, a consulting firm that provides executive skill building to job seekers ranging from recent college graduates to senior level managers to professionals seeking a second or third career. Career Centr...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 30, 2008
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    PharmaTrax

    Cubist Pharmaceuticals’ Cubicin (daptomycin), the first of the cyclic lipopeptides to gain U.S.market approval, is currently the fastest growing product in the antibiotic class, with 2007 sales surging 53% to $290.4 million. The first oxazolidinone to win U.S.Food and Drug Administration approval...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 30, 2008
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    Michael Pucci — The Man, The Mission, The Message

    BY TAREN GROM He started as one man with a mission five years ago. Today Michael Pucci is inspiring legions as one of the industry’s staunchest advocates as he strives to improve the image of pharma with a message based on science and solid data. MAN THE MISSION THE MESSAGE THE PV0908LayoutFINAL ...

    By Taren Grom • Aug. 27, 2008
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    The Green Movement: Rethinking Chemistry

    BY DENISE MYSHKO Major pharmaceutical companies are working together to minimize the environmental impact of how they make their products. The GREEN MOVEMENT Rethinking Chemistry GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK. The push to make prescription drugs more efficient, cleaner, and safer is gaining momentum ami...

    By Denise Myshko • Aug. 27, 2008
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    On the Calendar

    4th Integrating Electronic Health Records and eClinical Technologies Conference Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel,Baltimore For more information, contact Jasmaine John, ExL Pharma,at 2124006235, email [email protected], or visit exlpharma.com. September 1516 Biotech Patents Royal Sonesta Hote...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 27, 2008
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    UpFront

    MARKET BUSTERS Global Drug Market to Exceed $1 Trillion According to a new market research report from BCC Research, the global market for pharmaceuticals is expected to reach more than $1.0 trillion in 2013. The 2008 estimated market value is $737.6 billion. The market is broken down into brande...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 27, 2008
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    Cover

    PharmaVOICE PharmaVOICE 100 THE FORUM FOR THE INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE July/August 2008 SPECIAL ISSUE 100 of the Most Inspiring People www.pharmavoice.com Download PDF

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2008
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    Letter from the Editor

    PharmaVOICE is delighted to publish the fourth annual special issue featuring 100 of the most inspiring individuals in the life-sciences industry. This issue has become one of my favorites and, from all accounts, one of yours as well. What’s not to love? This issue celebrates the men and women of...

    By Taren Grom • July 27, 2008
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    The Mentors

    Brian Corvino Mary Lacquaniti Lelia O’Connor Danita Sutton, Ph.D. MENTORING AND SHAPING THE CAREERS OF OTHERS ARE VENERABLE AND ADMIRABLE TALENTS. MENTORING TAKES PATIENCE, FORESIGHT, AND UNSELFISH DEVOTIONTO OTHERS’ SUCCESS and is a skill that is often unheralded — until now. We salute those who...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 24, 2008
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    The Technologists

    Valdo Arnera, M.D. Bill Byrom, Ph.D. Philip A. Garland Keith Howells Don Schenker Rodney Spady A creative and passionate approach to pioneering new areas of technology applications and new products has enabled Dr. Bill Byrom to engender real improvements in the drug development process. For the p...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 24, 2008
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    The Patient Advocates

    The PATIENT ADVOCATES Jon Butko Jaime Cohen Steven V. Edelman, M.D. Linda Kitlinski Kristin Patton Dorothy Smith, Pharm.D. Joseph Tonning, M.D., M.P.H., R.Ph. Meg Walsh Jeanne Zucker The Patient Advocates PATIENT CENTRIC IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT WHEN DESCRIBING THESE INDUSTRY LEADERS. THEY TAKE THEIR...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 24, 2008
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    Intensive QT Trials — "The Not-So-Thorough QT Study"

    38 June 20 08 VIEW on Clinical Operations QT TRIALS T he ICH E14 gives guidance regarding the conduct of socalled “Thorough QT Trials (TQT).” While discussions around this guidance occurred well before the final adoption of the doc ument, little was said about classes of drugs where a classic TQT...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 9, 2008
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    Evaluating and Allocating Advertising Budgets: A Sponsor's Responsibility

    36 June 20 08 VIEW on Clinical Operations PATIENT RECRUITMENT E valuating and allocating costefficient, yet costeffective advertising bud gets for a patient recruiting campaign is an issue that rarely receives the attention it deserves. A wellplanned budget is absolutely integral to the success o...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 9, 2008
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    Direct-to-Patient Advertising Enhances Study Recruitment

    34 June 20 08 VIEW on Clinical Operations PATIENT RECRUITMENT re the needed patients available at the investigator sites? Answer ing this question incorrectly means that the clinical trial will fall short of its goal, and most trials run late due to patient enroll ment issues.The following case s...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 9, 2008
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    Flexibility & Agility The New Outsourcing Paradigm

    32 June 20 08 VIEW on Clinical Operations OUTSOURCING I t’s no secret that outsourcing processes are constantly changing based on industry needs and regulatory require ments. Additionally, workflow reengineering is occurring in every corner of the industry, from the FDA to the top 20 global bioph...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 9, 2008
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    A Prescription for Change

    30 June 20 08 VIEW on Clinical Operations OUTSOURCING everaging pharmacy outreach services in clinical operations can improve the overall study life cycle by adding value and precision to a sponsor’s milestones. Companies can use an evidencebased resources enabling the study team to make advantag...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 9, 2008
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    The "Glocalisation" of Patient Recruitment & Retention

    28 June 20 08 VIEW on Clinical Operations GLOBAL TRIALS T here’s a new twist on globalization. It’s called “glo calisation” — a combination of thinking globally and acting locally. And, it’s changing how patient recruit ment and retention literature needs to be devel oped. To meet this need, new ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 9, 2008
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    Power of Site

    26 June 20 08 VIEW on Clinical Operations ECLINICAL T wo down, one to go. Electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) solutions and electronic data capture (EDC) systems have replaced untrustworthy paper processes for data collection at patients’ homes and clinical sites, respectively. Most questi...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 9, 2008
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    The New Frontier: EDC and eProtocol, the Clinical Process Gets Even Smarter

    24 June 20 08 VIEW on Clinical Operations ECLINICAL W hen life sciences companies in the previous millennium tried to figure out how the application of IT could help them save time and money in their clinical development processes, electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM) ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • June 9, 2008