Category Archives: healthcare

Ad Agency Encourages Pharma Marketers to Reboot

People tell you who they are, but we ignore it – because we want them to be who we want them to be. – Don Draper At the beginning of the Reboot Camp – held at New York City’s Alexandria Center on April 12 – Intouch Solutions’ CEO Faruk Capan declared the days of Don Draper [...]
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Drug Pipelines in Canada: Is There a Buyer for Future Innovation?

Last week, Canada’s National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System (NPDUIS), a federal-provincial fact-finding panel that works closely with the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board (PMPRB), issued its fourth New Drug Pipeline Monitor (NDPM) looking at drugs currently under development that may have an impact on future drug expenditures. The report is another example of how [...]
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Physicians in ACOs Dare Pharma to Step up Its Game

Pharma, according to physicians currently embedded within Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), is not living up to its potential. A survey conducted by Oliver Wyman has most of its 200 respondents saying the industry could play a more active role with value-based healthcare providers in helping to deliver better care at a lower cost, but it [...]
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"Sunshine" Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Pharma and Full Disclosure

“Sunshine” Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Full Disclosure for Pharma:??There seems no end to demands for data on clinical research, conflicts of interest, company payments, and drug prices, writes Jill Wechsler. Although recent legislation and regulations have greatly expanded the range of information that pharmaceutical companies have to unveil to the public, there’s an escalating [...]
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Mapping Opportunities with the Non-Physician Prescriber

They write 92% of their prescriptions without consulting a physician and are often the first provider a patient sees, and yet nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants and other non-physician prescribers (NPPs) are still somehow overlooked by pharma as an opportunity to drive sales. A GSW Worldwide report titled The non-physician prescriber will see you now points [...]
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