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Zooming In for Promotional Medical Education
With all medical education forced to go virtual, the industry has been working hard to ensure peer-to-peer engagements cut through the clutter. For the past year, all forms of learning have been forced to go virtual. For the pharmaceutical industry and associations managing non-accredited medical...
By Kim Ribbink • May 1, 2021 -
Speak Out: 3 Steps to Consider When Launching a Product in Today's Market
Fit-for-purpose planning, agile execution, and informed investment decisions Successful product launches are crucial to the future viability of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies but are no longer a straightforward feat. Let’s consider product launches in the recent years. U.S. pharmaceut...
By Maya Desai • May 1, 2021 -
Letter from the Editor
Password protected? How secure is your healthcare and other online data? Well, across the globe it’s clear that healthcare information continues to be fertile ground for cybercriminals. According to HIPAA Journal, there was a 40.63% increase in reported data breaches of 500 or more healthcare rec...
By Taren Grom • April 1, 2021 -
Upfront
Astellas Oncology Fifth Annual C3 Prize Winners Astellas Oncology has named the winners of its 5th Annual C3 Prize(Changing Cancer Care), a global challenge that sparks cancer care innovations beyond medicine to advance ideas that make a big impact in the cancer community. The program awards up t...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2021 -
HealthTech
Robots Measure Vitals to Minimize Interactions with COVID Patients Trend Watch: COVID-19 Forces Healthtech Innovations from Robots to Partnerships Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada have developed three different robots that can sense and measure patients’ healthcare parameters, inc...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2021 -
Artificial Intelligence
Iktos Partners with Pfizer for AI-based Drug Design Project Trend Watch: COVID-19, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s All Benefiting from AI Platforms Iktos, an AI-based chemical research solution provider, and Pfizer are creating a design model for the pharma company’s selective small molecule discovery p...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2021 -
Virtual Launches
Industry thought leaders discuss what they learned during their recent pivot to virtual launches. Launching a product in the past year, during a global pandemic, required a nimbleness that often belies a pharma product launch, but several companies accepted the challenge and created new strategie...
By Robin Robinson • April 1, 2021 -
Six Cell and Gene Therapy Commercialization Trends
What to Watch in the Next 12 Months and Beyond 2020 was a noteworthy year for cell and gene therapies (CGT), which conservatively account for 12% of the pharma industry’s clinical pipeline and 16% of its preclinical pipeline. Despite unprecedented global challenges caused by COVID-19, the CGT mar...
By Amy DuRoss • April 1, 2021 -
Precision Medicine and Predictive Action Drive Measurable Impact for Patients
The Institute for Precision Medicine defines “Precision Medicine" as the “medical approach that proposes to prevent and treat disease based upon a person’s unique genetic makeup and their lifestyle habits. Precision medicine, the ability to accurately measure specific predictors of patient outcom...
By Maria Kirsch • April 1, 2021 -
Commanders & Chiefs: Chief Digital Officers
Some say the chief digital officer (CDO) is a “futurist" who predicts trends based on current market conditions and then works to ensure that the business moves to react to those conditions. Others consider the CDO to be that executive who brings together various disciplines within an enterprise ...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2021 -
Letter from the Editor
Thank you… Our special Patient Voice issue is one of my favorite issues of the year. Now in its fourth year, this is our opportunity to shine a light on the people who are truly making a difference to the healthcare system. It’s their unwavering pursuit to change the status quo and improve the de...
By Taren Grom • March 1, 2021 -
Upfront
Lilly and Life for a Child Expand Partnership Lilly, Life for a Child, and Beyond Type 1 advance access to diabetes care in resource-limited countries. More than 1.8 million children and young adults under 25 years old have Type 1 diabetes, yet many don’t have access to the life-saving treatments...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021 -
HealthTech
Biogen to Launch Pioneering Study to Develop Digital Biomarkers of Cognitive Health Using Apple Watch and iPhone Trend Watch: Google, Microsoft, Apple Watch, Azure Becoming Major Players in HealthTech Biogen has initiated a new virtual research study, in collaboration with Apple, to investigate t...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021 -
Artificial Intelligence
90% of Large Pharma Initiated AI/ML Projects In 2020 Trend Watch: AI Use Grows in Drug Research, Development, Analysis, and Diagnosis Trinity Life Sciences is sharing findings from its latest TGaS Landscape report entitled “Perspectives on Use of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AIML) fo...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021 -
Patient Power: Personal Journeys of Courage
The power of patients is palpable, powerful, and pervasive. Patient-centricty has evolved into patient engagement. The distinction, while subtle, is also palpable, powerful, and pervasive. Engagement requires active participation. Rather than being passively placed in the center of vague initiati...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021 -
Unflagging Courage — Dana Deighton
As both a caregiver and a patient, I’ve had lots of on-the-job training. It started when I was 32, with young kids, my mom (who was an RN) was diagnosed at age 61 with stage four colon cancer. She only lived for another six weeks and those six weeks were fraught with gut-wrenching pain, smells th...
By Dana Deighton • March 1, 2021 -
Advocacy Cheerleader — Barby Ingle
I have been battling chronic pain since 1997. First with endometriosis, which resulted in a full hysterectomy and left oophorectomy. Then in 2002, I developed Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), which is also known as Central Pain Syndrome. This is a progressive neuro-autoimmune condition that af...
By Barby Ingle • March 1, 2021 -
The Patient Knows Best
The patient voice is crucial throughout the entire healthcare process, but especially relevant in creating spot-on patient education. Shantana Hazel, Wayne Eskridge, and Lisa Lurie are just three of thousands of patient activists who have used their own patient journey and experiences to create i...
By Robin Robinson • March 1, 2021 -
Education is Key — Daniel Garza
I remember being at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston. Texas. September 2000, I think it was Tuesday the 26th. I had been in the hospital over the weekend, weighed about 110 lbs. with a T-cell count of 108, and the diagnosis was AIDS. I had been in an isolated room, with only my mother, father, and si...
By Daniel Garza • March 1, 2021 -
Virtual Patient Care: Starting to Shine
Virtual patient care has moved from healthcare’s bit player to co-star, and it won’t be giving up that role anytime soon. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States last year, healthcare organizations that had been slow to embrace a virtual health model suddenly began implementing vi...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021 -
A Family Affair — Estela Lugo
I wish I could say there was a time in my life when I felt “normal," but there really isn’t. Some of my first memories include sitting on the number rug in kindergarten and showing off my new plastic leg braces to friends. It was 1984 when doctors at Nassau County Medical Center in New York broke...
By Estela Lugo • March 1, 2021 -
Decentralized Clinical Trials: The Way Forward
COVID-19 prompted the need for the industry to address patient needs in the clinical trial space, and companies along the drug development paradigm pivoted successfully to the benefit of patients. Necessity is the mother of invention, and over the past 12 to 18 months because of the limitations n...
By Taren Grom • March 1, 2021 -
Becoming a Patient Partner — Claire Snyman
May 14, 2010. I woke up to the room spinning. That day is forever etched in my mind. Firstly, because of the unfamiliar, sickening vertigo that rippled through my body, rendering me helpless. Secondly, because this symptom led to a cascade of events that four days later landed me in the ER diagno...
By Calire Snyman • March 1, 2021 -
Patient Heroes
Patient heroes have the power to positively change the status quo because of their influence, knowledge, passion, and commitment to improving the patient journey. The global patient engagement solutions market size is expected to reach $70.5 billion by 2028, according to a new report by Grand Vie...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021 -
Advocate For Changes That Protect Patients — Molly Stallings
My mission is to create the best patient experience possible — from product development through program execution, each department plays a unique role in contributing to a patient’s overall experience. The consumerization of healthcare combined with the disruptive power of mobile technology prese...
By Molly Stallings • March 1, 2021