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    The Power of Patients

    Patient engagement is permeating all spheres of the healthcare ecosystem. On the cover… This month’s cover image is a self-portrait painted by Casey Ford, age 19, who has a rare connective tissue disorder, which is characterized by under-developed, absent, or misplaced/misaligned kneecaps in newb...

    By Taren Grom • March 1, 2020
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    Patient Gallery

    Last year, we were honored to feature the art work of Max Schill, now 11, who remains an active patient advocate, and who helped pass the 21st Century Cure Act. We are excited to continue this tradition with this year’s original artwork by 19-year-old Casey Ford. To expand the patient gallery we ...

    By Robin Robinson • March 1, 2020
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    Driving Patient Engagement

    A cultural shift throughout pharma is putting patients squarely in the middle of strategic decision-making. Pharmaceutical companies should take a cue from patient advocacy groups to drive patient engagement, and even partner with those advocacy organizations to create better patient experiences ...

    By Taren Grom • March 1, 2020
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    Patient-Enhanced Drug Discovery and Development

    Patients are uniquely positioned to inform the understanding of the therapeutic context for drug development and evaluation. In other industries, it would seem odd not to get input from the end user of a product throughout the development stages. But it seems that pharmaceutical companies — some ...

    By Taren Grom • March 1, 2020
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    Patient Relationships: Physicians and Payers

    Patients are taking an active role in developing relationships with all stakeholders within their healthcare environment. Over the past several years, the relationship between pharma companies and patients has garnered much of the industry’s attention. But as patients become more empowered, engag...

    By Robin Robinson • March 1, 2020
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    A Different Kind of Real-World Evidence: The Key Role That Patient-Provider Dialogue Research Can Play

    All roads in healthcare lead to and from the medical visit. Well, maybe not all roads, but nearly all. The medical visit is central to the overarching healthcare structure and it is driven by the dialogue between patient and provider. The healthcare data and research landscape has been changing s...

    By Katy Hewett • March 1, 2020
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    Patient Heroes

    The definition of a hero is a person who is admired for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. There is a massive demand for patient-engagement solutions, with predictions that the market for such solutions will reach $30.36 billion by 2026. Patient needs are not only supported by...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2020
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    Making the Patient an Extension of the Team

    The concept of patient-centricity is well embedded throughout EVERSANA and is intrinsically tied to helping the agency’s clients achieve their goals. Kristin LaBounty Phillips believes that the entire agency — with a unified commitment to quality in addressing patients’ needs — embodies the conce...

    By Kristin LaBounty Phillips • March 1, 2020
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    Breaking Down Barriers to Bring Patients Equal Access to Top-Quality Care

    Patients Always The term “patients first" is not enough, rather it’s “patients always" because patients are our North Star through every stage of development — from discovery to clinical trials to approved treatment. Eve Dryer Executive Director, Patient Advocacy Retrophin All patients should hav...

    By Eve Dryer • March 1, 2020
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    Clinical Educators Provide Support Along the Whole Patient Journey

    Team Power The teams of clinical educators at VMS BioMarketing are driven to help patients on a one-to-one basis to manage chronic illnesses — in the field or on the phone each day. Taking A Step-Wise Approach to clinical education There is one club that no one wants to join, but for those who wo...

    By Clinical Educator Teams • March 1, 2020
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    Upfront

    Mylan’s Team in Turkey is Helping Women and Children More than a dozen members of Mylan Turkey recently traveled to Mardin to help open a new toy library at the Cumhuriyet Neighborhood Women-Children Center. Mylan supported the project with the Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work (KEDV) to...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2020
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    HealthTech

    Newly FDA-Approved Ingestible Pill Challenges Struggling Proteus Trend Watch: From ingestibles to implants, medical devices continue to create healthcare solutions The FDA approved an ingestible event marker from the privately held digital health company etectRx. The Florida-based company said th...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2020
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    Artificial Intelligence

    AI Tech Company Partners with Roche for Clinical Trial Work Trend Watch: Adoption of AI in Pharma Continues to Grow Sensyne Health signed its second successive partnership with a major pharmaceutical company at the end of 2019 when it agreed to collaborate with Roche to focus on identifying patie...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2020
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    Agile Marketing

    Agile allows agencies to move twice as fast with more favorable outcomes. Agency marketers are very accustomed to putting out fires, juggling tasks, as well as hats, and wading their way through daily chaos as they attempt to create successful campaigns for clients. According to our experts, ther...

    By Robin Robinson • Feb. 1, 2020
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    R&D INFLUENCER: Dr. Joanne Santomauro — Ancillere LP

    Tackling Ancillary Supply Challenges with Innovative Solutions When a pharmaceutical client came to Joanne Santomauro nearly 15 years ago with a request to help with a complex and expensive ancillary supply challenge, she didn’t hesitate. She launched Ancillare and began the journey to create and...

    By Dr. Joanne Santomauro • Feb. 1, 2020
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    Oncology Market Insights

    Analysts and experts discuss scientific, technological, and access advancements in the oncology area. Oncology clinical development activities are being undertaken by more than 700 companies and are at record high levels, according a report by the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. But despi...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2020
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    Letter from the Editor

    The Road Ahead As we head into 2020, closing out a decade punctuated by an ever-changing healthcare dynamic shaped by scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs, innovation at every level, as well as global geopolitical forces, there is no doubt that the status quo is no longer a busines...

    By Taren Grom • Jan. 1, 2020
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    Upfront

    GSK Offers Grants to Nonprofits Making an IMPACT on Health Outcomes GlaxoSmithKline has honored 10 Philadelphia nonprofit organizations that offer youth mentoring, housing, legal aid, education, and other critical services that help foster a healthier region. The 10 winners of the GSK IMPACT Awar...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2020
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    HealthTech

    Astellas and Welldoc Pair Up for Digital Therapeutics Trend Watch: Pharma’s Use of Healthtech Continues to Gain Ground Astellas Pharma and Welldoc have entered into a collaboration and license agreement directed toward the development and commercialization of digital health solutions. Under the a...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2020
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    Artificial Intelligence

    Cyclica and ATAI Partner to Develop Drugs to Treat Mental Health Trend Watch: Partnerships Leverage AI for Drug Discovery and Development Cyclica, an artificial intelligence-powered biotechnology company, has partnered with the biotech company ATAI Life Sciences to create Entheogenix Biosciences....

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2020
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    SHOWCASE: High-Science Brands: Making Connections for High Science Brands

    The growth of high-science brands has changed the life sciences landscape, and with it the strategies companies need to develop to market their products must also undergo a significant shift. Cancer immunotherapies as well as other high-science brands will account for $34 billion in sales by 2024...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2020
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    Facts Tell, Stories Sell

    People hear facts, but feel stories, and medical storytelling today is a winning combination of both. In 2013, Novartis broke the mold in marketing with its campaign for its oral multiple sclerosis treatment Gilenya. The campaign, “Hey MS, Take This!" shows various patients sticking out their ton...

    By Robin Robinson • Jan. 1, 2020
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    SHOWCASE: Virtual Health: Exploring the Potential of Virtual Health

    As healthcare costs continue to spiral, the need to find effective ways to balance the demands of an aging population becomes more pressing. One approach that has the potential to make a significant difference is virtual health, which allows patients with chronic diseases to be monitored more eff...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 1, 2020
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    Wear it on Your Sleeve — How Sensors and Wearables Help Drive Richer Insights on Intervention Effects

    “I didn’t sleep well last night." It’s a phrase we’ve all heard, and unfortunately said, hundreds if not thousands of times. For some of us, the phrase instantly invokes the struggles to fall asleep, tossing and turning throughout the night. For others it means constantly waking up, gaining only ...

    By Bill Byrom • Jan. 1, 2020
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    Unraveling Data Ownership

    Amid ongoing concerns over data privacy and how patients’ data is used, who owns the data is both a crucial and complex question. Just who owns a patient’s data? It’s a question that is fraught with complications due to the sensitive nature of the information. Data has been described as the most ...

    By Kim Ribbink • Jan. 1, 2020