Category Archives: E-Media

Patients Want to Talk. Do You?

Why are companies rushing to the web when traditional engagement with patient groups remains so under-exploited, asks Jacky Law. It used to be so easy. Patients listened to doctors, doctors listened to pharma and everyone was happy. There was even a time when payers listened to pharma, reimbursing their prices with very few questions asked. Now [...]
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Pharma Digital Smarts Quantified in IQ Index

Pfizer’s Viagra and AstraZeneca’s (AZ) Nexium took the top two slots on a new Digital IQ Index measuring the digital competence of 51 pharma brands across eight therapeutic categories. The ranking, created by think tank L2 in partnership with media agency PHD Network, evaluated brands’ digital presence across four criteria: platform (including site effectiveness and [...]
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Do You Have a Head of Social Media?

And do you need one? Julian Upton looks at some of the contrasting ideas that emerged from last month’s Digital Pharma Europe event. If anyone had any lingering doubts about an unprecedented era of inclusion and transparency promised by pharma’s newfound, if tentative, embrace of online social media, then last month’s Digital Pharma Europe conference must [...]
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PhRMA Calls for New Style Search Link Ads

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), on Tuesday, revealed its comments to FDA about how to handle search link ads on sites such as Google and Yahoo. PhRMA showed off two versions of its recommended search ad, one with a universal symbol that’s easily recognizable as a link to risk information (the sample one [...]
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Tweeting to Your Facebook: Why Pharma Is So Bad With Social Media

For those of you who didn’t know, it’s Social Media Week. Granted, the week is almost over, but the panel that you all care about didn’t take place until yesterday afternoon here in NYC. The panel’s mouthful of a name—“Navigating Social Media & New Technology in Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Industries”—is nevertheless an accurate description of the [...]
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