Category Archives: healthcare

Patent Settlements Become More Risky

Pharmaceutical companies can anticipate more costly, drawn-out patent litigation in the wake of the June 17, 2013 US Supreme Court decision which creates great uncertainty about the grounds for negotiating settlements in patent cases. In ruling that “pay-for-delay” arrangements could violate the antitrust laws, and that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the right to [...]
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Helping Patients Lead the Way in the New NHS

Helping patients lead the way in NHS England Jacky Law investigates how pharma companies can effectively become part of NHS England NHS England is currently undergoing profound changes to introduce a new culture where clinicians and patients are the new stars, where competition is mandatory, where everything rests on patient outcomes and where collaboration and innovation are [...]
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FT Healthcare Conference: Society as Stakeholder

Speakers at the 2nd annual Financial Times US Healthcare and Life Sciences conference in New York last week discussed the cost of health, and the implications of an increasingly vocal and influential stakeholder group: the local populace. After opening remarks from Andrew Jack, FT’s prolific pharmaceuticals correspondent, Pfizer CEO Ian Read took the stage at the [...]
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Five Ways Advanced Social Intelligence Guides Pharma Strategy

by Mark Langsfeld Within the billions of daily comments from individuals across open social sources lies deep intelligence into markets, brands, patients, caregivers, healthcare providers and competitors. Several leading pharmaceutical companies are already using big data solutions to extract insights from the social realm. Applying these insights across a number of business functions empowers their decision-making [...]
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On the Record: Colleen McHorney’s Next Step Agenda on Medication Adherence

PharmExec sat down with Colleen A. McHorney, PhD, former Senior Scientist at Merck’s U.S. Outcomes Research to review her long record of scientific research on adherence in advance of her retirement last month. McHorney highlights the cyclical nature of engagement on adherence programs, technology’s inherent inadequacies, the need to study the provider as well as [...]
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