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Docs Get Smart with New Technology

Pri-Med, a provider of professional education solutions to a community of 235,000+ primary care physicians (PCPs), recently surveyed PCPs on their use of smartphones. The results of a recent survey of more than 700 primary care physicians nationwide shed light on the current adoption rate of smartphone usage, how PCPs are using the devices, and [...]
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Is M-health Just for M-people?

Jacky Law asks who is really being served as medicine adapts to an increasingly mobile, connected and interactive world? If m-health advocates are to be believed, more than a fifth of all medicine will be practised online by 2013 and much of that will be by phone. Peter Wagemann, vice-president of mHealth Initiative, goes further, suggesting [...]
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Help Us Help You

Sponsored Blog by: Craig Nestel Business Solutions Manager SAS Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice I wasn’t the biggest fan of the movie Jerry McGuire, but it certainly had its share of memorable quotes. Who can forget “mission statement” or “show me the money!” My personal favorite was “help me help you” which brings me to the subject of [...]
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Past Performance Is No Indication Of Future Results

Sponsored Guest blog post by Patrick Homer, Life Science Practice Principal, SAS. The lingo that accompanies every financial investment prospectus has never been more apt in our post meltdown economy. Yet when it comes down to directing the billion dollar investments in sales and marketing spends, the pharma industry has been firmly entrenched in this belief. [...]
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Working Towards a Solution : An Interview with Oracle’s Neil de Crescenzo

Just a few days shy of the one year anniversary of the launch of Oracle’s Health Sciences Global Business Unit, Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager for the business unit sat down with Pharm Exec to talk about the future of clinical trial software and technology and the need for standards and [...]
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