Pharma sales forces were out, well, in force for a two-day leadership summit put on by the Center for Business Intelligence this week in Philadelphia. As a newbie on the pharma reporting scene, I eagerly await these conference opportunities…especially the ones that deal with important sales management topics. This conference, in particular, presented sessions on [...]

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Call me old-fashioned, but the one low-tech item I never expected to see threatened with extinction was the humble but indispensable business card. After Last Thursday’s re:think08, the fifth edition of the seminar on event marketing and team building put on by the communications company Impact Unlimited, I’m not so sure. The event had some [...]

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The second dispatch from Marina Maher Communication’s healthcare guru Megan Svensen:
It’s the second day of the 19th Annual PRSA Health Academy meeting in Chicago and the morning has provided more valuable learnings. Ed Schipul, CEO of Schipul – The Web Marketing Company, gave a great analogy in his talk: He says joining the blogosphere [...]

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The discussions over the next model for pharma fall all over the map, but include one central component: a conversation with consumers. How to do it? Here, Megan Svensen, executive vice president of healthcare for Marina Maher Communications, reports in from the annual Public Relations Society of America boot camp on healthcare.
I’m coming to you [...]

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News flowing from the American College of Cardiology meeting has been dominated by Vytorin. And after the presentation analyzing results yesterday, Miller Tabak analyst Les Fundleyter says, “We’re done for the conference in terms of the important stuff. Vytorin is the story this year.”
So what is Vytorin’s story exactly? Industry watchers say they are still [...]

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The Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy is all grown up. The nonprofit is flourishing under its executive director, Cindy Pigg (right), who took the reigns back in 2005 after handling pharmaceutical contracting for Cigna for 17 years. She just rang me to talk about her work to retool the organization to do the research that’s [...]

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We didn’t get to travel to this year’s JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, but Pharm Exec contributor Audrey S. Erbes (founder of Erbes & Associates) did. Here are her impressions:
There was a lack of usual excitement among drug companies but no sense of distress.
Although this year’s event broke attendance records with more than 7,700 participants and 331 [...]

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