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    SHOWCASE FEATURE: Marketing: Marketing Without Wires

    Throughout pharma history, marketers have always gone where the consumers are — and where they are today, in growing numbers, is on the mobile Web. An estimated 81% of physicians surveyed say they use a smartphone, while 75% specified using an Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod, according to the Manhatt...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 31, 2012
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    Hitting the Target with Behavioral Marketing

    The concept of behavioral marketing is not new, but with the advent of technology and new marketing tools, the industry is able to connect with its consumers on a very individual level, creating the ability to impact behavior and health outcomes on an almost molecular scale. While data are crucia...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 30, 2012
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    Clinical 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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    The Marketers

    Nancy Beesley HCB Health Timmy Garde Star Group Communications Shannon Hartley Rosetta Mike Innaurato Purdue Pharma Scott Richardson Pfizer Jeff Spanbauer Healthcare Regional Marketing Christopher Tobias, Ph.D. Dudnyk Saru Wade Vertex Pharmaceuticals Steven Walker MedImmune The Marketers Brand Ch...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2012
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    The Change Agents

    Lee Babiss, Ph.D.    PPD Jeff Berkowitz    Walgreen The Change agents (continued) Kathleen Castore    Sanofi US Cathryn Clary, M.D.     Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Marianne Eisenmann    Chandler Chicco Companies Leigh Householder    GSW Worldwide Amir Kalali, M.D.    Quintiles Dale Kummerle, Pharm.D...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 28, 2012
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    It's Time for Mobile: Do You Know Where Your Consumers Are?

    By Robin Robinson There are several very solid reasons why the industry should be using mobile technology in its marketing efforts, but the one that stands out above all others is quite simple — mobile is where the consumers are. There are more smartphones than personal computers in the United St...

    By PharmaVoice Team • May 29, 2012
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    Postapproval Studies: More Critical and Challenging Than Ever

    By Robin Robinson Phase IV data are in high demand by more stakeholders. As the need for postapproval data reaches a critical point, the industry explores the multiple options and struggles to determine which methods are best for collecting and analyzing important data. There are as many ways to ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • May 29, 2012
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    Pharma 3.0

    As the industry evolves to address a new ecosystem within the complex and global drug development and commercialization arena, companies will need to be open to using new technologies, thinking, and processes to make healthcare more sustainable, affordable, and accessible; improve the efficiency ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 26, 2012
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    Final Phase Goal: Maximize Uptake While Speeding to Launch

    In every phase of drug development today, processes are more complex and more costly than ever and the drive to reduce time and expenditure is more critical. In today’s ever-changing marketplace, this holds true especially for the last stages of the process: registration, launch, and postlaunch. ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 26, 2012
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    Digital Patient-Centric Communications: Listen and Learn

    Learning to listen and listening to learn are critical to a successful social networking marketing plan. While the buzzword in marketing these days is patient-centric, the industry still struggles with shifting its focus from products to consumers. Years of pushing product messaging out into the ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 27, 2012
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    Safety and Pharmacovigilance: A Moving Target

    Robin Robinson The industry has always been under ­extreme scrutiny by regulators and the ­public, but the current business ­environment creates even more pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to stay compliant. Regulations and procedures are not only tightening but continually developing and c...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 27, 2012
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    Hitting the Social Comfort Zone

    Social Media Carolyn Gretton Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are shaking off their hesitance to employ social media tactics by forgoing potential marketing applications in favor of connecting with patients and providers in conversations that engage and inform. Most experts would likely...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Dec. 22, 2011
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    Pharma 3.0 Next Steps

    Robin Robinson Pharma Expands Disease ­Categories of 3.0 Efforts Between 2006 and 2009, 24% of Pharma 3.0 initiatives focused first on ­diabetes and metabolics. In 2010, oncology moved to the top with 15% of the year’s ­initiatives, and diabetes and metabolics tied for second with ­immunoscience/...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Dec. 22, 2011
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    The C-Suite: Corporate Strategies

    New Ways Forward Experts agree the time has come to re-evaluate the overall working culture of the life-sciences industry, and they say innovation, new payer models, new stakeholders, and new outcomes are key considerations for future success. “Pharma will need to generate data that are timely, r...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 11, 2011
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    SHOWCASE FEATURE: Marketing on a Two-Way Street

    Social media is seen by many as today’s equivalent of meeting friends for a chat at the local diner or coffee shop, albeit with a much wider reach and somewhat longer life span message-wise. Joe Willis, VP, sales and marketing, SkinMedica, notes that social media is easy to access and instantly c...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Sept. 27, 2011
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    The Marketers

    New Media Mavens These tech-savvy marketers are energized by the possibilities present in the plethora of ­social media and other cutting-edge message-delivery tools. Alyson Connor • Driving Better Health Behaviors Curious. Passionate. Alyson Connor was a zookeeper. Alyson Connor can make the mos...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 26, 2011
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    The Clinical Specialists

    Instinctive Innovators These experts in the clinical arena are evolving research and development practices, ­technologies, and development models to help bring new products to market faster, more cost-effectively, and with improved safety profiles. Mitchell Katz, Ph.D. • Leading by Example Suppor...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 26, 2011
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    The Researchers & Scientists

    Scientific Pathfinders As R&D becomes more focused and specialized, these research experts are leading the way by breaking new ground. Julian Adams, Ph.D., is leading the charge in the war against cancer. Dr. Adams is best known for the discovery and development of Velcade (bortezomib), a pro...

    By PharmaVoice Team • July 26, 2011
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    mHealth: Pharma's Next Blockbuster

    The practice of mobile health, or mHealth as it is now known, has been around for decades. The first initiatives were designed to provide greater healthcare access to remote populations, mostly in developing countries. This trend continues and grows daily, providing many patients with a higher qu...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 25, 2011
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    The ABCs of Marketing — Advertising, Branding, and the Customer

    The ABCs of MarketingWith the introduction of DTC advertising, health information became ubiquitous, reaching consumers where they live, work, and play. “Enter technology, the Internet, place-based media, mobile devices, social media, and information now are literally available at one’s fingertip...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 7, 2011
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    Digital Marketing: Dare to be Different

    Research shows creativity is one of the most important components of a successful campaign, however, our experts say there are several other elements behind a campaign that need to be present to make the best of what digital media have to offer. Among them are matching the audience with the most ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 26, 2011
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    Achieving Global Launch Excellence

    The details of what comprise a global launch vary depending upon who is doing the defining, but experts can agree that the launch environment is becoming more challenging. And with the value of the global pharmaceutical market expected to grow 5% to 7% in 2011, according to IMS Health, the incent...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Dec. 27, 2010
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    Healthcare Reform and Comparative Effectiveness

    We all know that R&D focus, pharmaceutical promotion, pricing, and reimbursement are all, or will be, critically affected by the biggest U.S. healthcare reform to occur in 40 years. The impact is going to be disruptive, but overall, experts says it will be a positive gain for the pharmaceutic...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 10, 2010
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    The Sales Force of the Future

    Of all the factors that will influence how sales reps perform their jobs tomorrow, experts outline training, specialty roles, and social media as the top three that will most influence the size, strategies, and success of sales forces in the future. Training is Crucial.  As new skill sets become ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Nov. 10, 2010
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    Comparative Effectiveness: Real-World Evidence of Outcomes

    Comparative effectiveness research is going to have a huge impact on every stakeholder in healthcare delivery. It requires a much broader view of the healthcare system so that information will exist about a patient’s outcome as he or she moves from diagnosis to treatment in the healthcare system....

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 27, 2010
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    Talent Pool

    Pharmaceutical POOL Lonnel COATS Eisai Names CEO for U.S. Subsidiary Eisai Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s Eisai Co., has promoted Lonnel Coats to president and CEO, from president and chief operating officer. In addition, Mr. Coats has been appointed senior VP of Eisai Co.’s pharmaceuticals b...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 26, 2010