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Pharma Trax
Uptake of Digital Records Not sufficient to Drive Better Care Trending now: Despite increased use of electronic medical records, fewer U.S. doctors believe it improves health outcomes. Most U.S. doctors are more proficient using electronic medical records (EMR) than they were two years ago, but f...
By PharmaVoice Team • June 1, 2015 -
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Patient Engagement: Not Just For Physicians Anymore
When Pfizer wanted to engage with people living with chronic pain, it used an online crowdsourcing model and social media campaign that connected thousands of people, from patients and caregivers, to nurses and doctors. In what was the first initiative of its kind by a pharmaceutical company, Pfi...
By Robin Robinson • June 1, 2015 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineClinical trial diversity
As pharma wises up to the fact that the current playbook for improving clinical trial diversity has yet to make a meaningful impact, the quest is on to refine that approach.
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2015 DIA Preview
The DIA Annual Meeting brings together key thought leaders and innovators from industry, academia, government and regulatory agencies, health, patient, and philanthropic organizations from around the globe and across all disciplines involved in the discovery, development, and life-cycle managemen...
By PharmaVoice Team • June 1, 2015 -
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SHOWCASE FEATURE: Clinical Solutions: Clinical Services Market Poised For Growth
According to a recent report from JZ Med, the global clinical trial service market is expected to reach more than $64 billion by 2020, up from $38.4 billion at present, representing a CAGR of 9% between 2015 and 2020. By 2020 the average clinical trial outsourcing penetration will likely reach ar...
By PharmaVoice Team • June 1, 2015 -
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Patient or Partner? Building An Innovative Relationship for the Future
The healthcare industry has struggled with many changes in the last 10 years, including the inevitable patent cliff, the emergence of patient advocacy, increased regulatory and healthcare reform, and the rising cost of doing business. However, even in this age of rapid innovation and adaptability...
By Marc Sirockman • June 1, 2015 -
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Which Patients Are Really at Risk For Becoming Non-Adherent?
If you’re targeting only the most obvious patients with your medication adherence programs, you’re missing out on a big opportunity. Quite often, outreach programs focus on individuals hovering around the 80% threshold for proportion of days covered (PDC). It makes sense. Why not use your resourc...
By Craig Schilling • June 1, 2015 -
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Seeing the Big Picture With Visual Data Analytics
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are facing a gigantic increase in data — not just in volume, but in complexity. The number of clinical trials in the National Institute of Health’s registry has jumped from 5,635 in 2000 to 183,991 in 2015 — an increase of more than 30 times. The data la...
By Greg Moody • June 1, 2015 -
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Five Tips for Expediting Clinical Trial Recruitment and Enhancing Patient Retention
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than 80% of clinical trials in the United States fail to meet their patient recruitment timelines. These delays increase costs, deplete resources, and prolong the time to market introduction. Patient recruitment is challenging as it invol...
By Lou Shapiro • June 1, 2015 -
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Pharmacovigilance But Have Been Afraid to Ask
From the time humans begin taking an investigational new drug, pharmacovigilance measures play a critical role in every phase of a product’s lifecycle. However, understanding pharmacovigilance requirements can be daunting even for seasoned industry pros. This overview will answer all the question...
By Veronique Basch • June 1, 2015 -
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Early Cancer Detection
For most cancers, diagnosis happens too late, when the cancer has worsened or metastasized. But when cancers are diagnosed early, survival statistics are much higher. For example, the five-year survival rate for patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer is around 90% if diagnosed when the cancer ...
By Denise Myshko • May 1, 2015 -
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UpFront
Industry at Large Olympic cross-country skier Kris Freeman at the ADA camp. Mr. Freeman is one of the motivational speakers Lilly Diabetes provides as part of the Lilly Camp Care Package program. Lilly Supports Camps for Children with Diabetes Lilly Diabetes is supporting the American Diabetes As...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015 -
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What's New
Next20 Launched as Healthcare Thought Partnership Firm Trending now: Senior pharmaceutical industry executives establish new company and business model. Three highly experienced pharmaceutical and healthcare industry executives have formed next20, a new “thought partnership," which provides strat...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015 -
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Tools of the Trade
PHT Provides Mobile Engagement Apps for Increased Patient Retention in Clinical Trials Trending now: Patient-focused mobile apps designed to increase patient engagement and protocol compliance can help reduce participant dropout rate. PHT is expanding its suite of patient-centric apps for improve...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015 -
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Innovations: Apps and Websites
App Screens for Early Vision Loss GoCheckKids Screens Children Younger than 5 Years Pediatricians now have a new way to screen for amblyopia, a leading cause of vision loss in children. Gobiquity Mobile Health’s GoCheck Kids is the first pediatric vision screener app designed to facilitate early ...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015 -
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Innovations: Drug Therapies
First and Only Vaccine Approved for Meningitis Pfizer’s Trumenba a Key Public Health Advance A serious and life-threatening disease can now be prevented with the first and only FDA-approved vaccine in its class. Pfizer’s Trumenba Meningococcal Group B Vaccine was granted accelerated approval by ...
By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015 -
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On the Calendar
Coming Attractions Denice Torres, president of McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson company, has been named the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association’s 2015 Woman of the Year (WOTY). She will be honored at the 26th Woman of the Year event at the New York Hilton Midtown on Thursday...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015 -
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Cancer: Understanding The Patient Journey
Industry leaders talk often about being focused on patients, developing outcomes-based solutions, providing value to patients, and developing personalized and precision medicine. But what does it mean to be patient-centric in the pharmaceutical industry? Is it patient engagement? Is it addressing...
By Denise Myshko • March 1, 2015 -
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Re-Imagining the Future of the Life-sciences Industry
The pharmaceutical industry — after facing dramatic changes over the past 10 years or so — has more transformative changes ahead. With an increasingly restrictive physician landscape, an ever-changing payer market, and technological advances that are speeding processes and improving data collecti...
By Robin Robinson • Feb. 1, 2015 -
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Personalized Medicine: Personalized Medicine Gains Momentum
Personalized and precision medicines have the potential to change the way we think about, identify, and manage healthcare. In the years since the completion of the Human Genome Project, advances in genome technology have led to an exponential decrease in sequencing costs. This has led to more tha...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Business Models: Business Model Challenges
Life-sciences companies will need to employ new business models to understand the data now available from multiple sources. In the pharmaceutical industry, data are generated from several sources, including the R&D process itself, retailers, patients, and caregivers. Effectively using these d...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Digital Disruption: Digital Disruption 101: It's Here
Technologies and social media are greatly transforming life-sciences across all sectors. Digital disruption is occurring all around the world, and the life-sciences industry is no exception. As technologies, telemedicine, and mHealth services gain traction, providers, health plans, and pharma com...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Connected Health: Connecting the Dots to Connected Health
As the mHealth market grows, the industry prepares to optimize digital opportunities. Measuring easily quantifiable data is one of the keys to better health. Therefore, the future belongs to digestible, embedded, and wearable sensors that work like a thin e-skin. These sensors will measure all im...
By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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R&D Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing in Pharma
Companies are looking at nontraditional ways of collaborating to access new insights that could lead to innovative therapies. There is a growing movement within the industry toward open access and crowdsourcing scientific information to accelerate research and development. This open environment r...
By Denise Myshko • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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Augmented Reality: An Overlap Between the Virtual and the Real World
Augmented reality can take technology to a new level to improve patient outcomes and the healthcare journey. Augmented reality, the technology originally popularized as part of simulators and virtual reality games more than a decade ago, is gaining traction today in the pharma space. AR is relate...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 15, 2014 -
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SHOWCASE FEATURE: E-Solutions: Power Surge
E-Solutions ranging from mobile advances to EMR technologies are expected to reframe the patient model. Notably, the most encouraging news on mobile and quantified health is the recent announcement and launch of the HealthKit platform and the mobile app Health by Apple. HealthKit allows devices a...
By Taren Grom • Nov. 15, 2014
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