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UpFront
UpFront AbbVie Announces Art Gallery On Chronic Inflammatory Disease AbbVie has launched Perspectives — Art, Inflammation and Me, an initiative designed to add a different dimension to the current understanding of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and their impact on patients and society. Mo...
By Denise Myshko • March 27, 2014 -
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Letter from the Editor
The Journey of an Entrepreneur: Risk and Reward Having embarked upon an entrepreneurial journey with my two business partners Lisa Banket and Marah Walsh 13 years ago, I was interested to read the stories of the entrepreneurs featured in this month’s cover story. Some are first timers, others are...
By Taren Grom • March 27, 2014 -
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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Insights Hidden in Data Represent Opportunities for Drug and Medical Device Developers
As speed and cost become increasingly important in health care, more and more decision making will be “shared," requiring increased data transparency, collection and analysis. Pharmaceutical and medical device innovators can now generate substantial value across the health care spectrum by levera...
By Doug Dockhorn • Feb. 26, 2014 -
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mHealth Tools Can Streamline Clinical Trials
mHealth Tools Can Streamline Clinical Trials Studies show that mobile tools increase trial engagement while lowering costs. By Robin Robinson You may be holding the most important medical devices of the future in your hand: a smartphone and a mobile app. As the clinical trial space explores ways ...
By Robin Robinson • Feb. 25, 2014 -
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Connected Health Tools Improve Patient Outcomes
connected Health Tools Improve Patient Outcomes The ability for real-time information exchange enables better relationships, monitoring, and behavior change. By Robin Robinson The Center for Connected Health has been studying the effects of connected health on patient behavior, engagement, and ou...
By Robin Robinson • Feb. 25, 2014 -
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mHealth: Patient Adherence Tools Get Personal
mhealth Patient Adherence Tools Get Personal From blister packaging to text reminders, mHealth technology tools are helping drive patient adherence. Acharacteristically slow-moving pharma industry is being hit with technology that is changing at warp speed. How companies prepare for the coming ye...
By Robin Robinson • Feb. 25, 2014 -
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Connected Health
Connected Health According to Accenture, the future of healthcare is an ecosystem that is based on connecting all parts of a healthcare delivery system, seamlessly, through interoperable health information processes and technologies so that critical health information is available when and where ...
By Taren Grom • Feb. 25, 2014 -
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Talent Pool
Pharma Pool Albert BOURLA Susan SILBERMANN Pfizer Makes Executive Moves Pfizer has named Albert Bourla as group president of the vaccines, oncology, and consumer healthcare business. Mr. Bourla has 20 years of experience at Pfizer and has held senior global positions across a range of markets and...
By Ann Grey • Feb. 25, 2014 -
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On the Calendar
On the Calendar The Calendar Industry Events and Conferences, including special discounts Coming Attractions In May 2014, the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its prestigious Woman of the Year (WOTY) award. The HBA is proud to announce that three vis...
By Heather Hummel • Feb. 25, 2014 -
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Upping Their Game: CROs Must Develop A New Mindset to Partners with Sponsors
Contributed by: Mark Scullion, Senior VP, Strategic Resourcing, Inventiv Health Clinical As companies evaluate CRO partners, even for transactional work, they should be considering their potential fit for a more aligned relationship in the future. Forming an aligned partnership can lower costs, r...
By Mark Scullion • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Creating Sustainable Growth, Profitability, and Innovation
Balkrishan Kalra, Senior Vice President & Global Business Leader, Life Sciences, Genpact Can your business process operations support disruptive new strategies, and nontraditional business models? Today, the life sciences industry faces unprecedented challenges, uncertainty and risk that are ...
By Balkrishan Kalra • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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SHOWCASE FEATURE: Outsourcing: Adding Value to the Model
SHOWCASE FEATURE: Outsourcing: Outsourcing: Adding Value to the Model By Tarem Grom, Editor Outsourcing has become a standard worldwide business practice and management imperative and stakeholders are looking for more than cost- savings. A relatively small number of BPO clients — 20% of those par...
By Taren Grom • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Singapore a Pharma Hub for Asia
Singapore a Pharma Hub for Asia By Kim Ribbink The pharma industry is increasingly drawn to Singapore, thanks to its commitment to research and innovation, good talent base, and trusted regulatory and IP environment. Singapore is fast becoming a leading regional and even global center for the lif...
By Kim Ribbink • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Rare Diseases: The Patient as Collaborator
In the rare disease market, working with patients and patient advocacy groups is critical for the success of new therapies. The voice of the patient is critical in healthcare. Nowhere is this more true than in the area of rare diseases. It’s critical to engage patients, industry experts say, to a...
By Denise Myshko • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Specialty Drugs: An Evolving Commercial Model
A changing marketplace creates new challenges and new business models for specialty medications. At the same time the industry is increasing its focus on developing specialty drugs — a projected 40% growth by 2014 and 67% by 2015, according to Express Scripts — the reimbursement, marketing, and s...
By Robin Robinson • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Last Word
Biopharmaceutical companies are becoming more fully engaged with patients as well as patient advocacy groups. Millennium’s head of patient advocacy, Tom Sellers, discusses the barriers and opportunities that early engagement entails. PV:What has precluded biopharmaceutical companies from early ...
By Tom Sellers • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Talent Pool
Pharma Pool Dr. Yong-Jun LIU Medimmune Names New Head of Research MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, has named Yong-Jun Liu, M.D., Ph.D., as the company’s new head of research. Most recently, Dr. Liu served as VP and chief scientific officer at the Baylo...
By Ann Grey • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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PharmaTrax
Pipelines are Shifting to Biotech Drugs Trending Now: Large molecules currently represent a dominant share of sales. The pharmaceutical industry, especially big pharma, has dramatically shifted its R&D focus from its historical concentration on small molecule drugs to include a rapidly increa...
By Denise Myshko • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Tools of the Trade
GSW Launches Multi-Channel Detailing Platform Trending Now: eDetailing allows for increased flexibility and access to physicians in a changing salesforce landscape. GSW, an inVentiv Health company and healthcare communications agency, has released iQ.mercury 3, a significant advance in pharmaceut...
By Denise Myshko • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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What's New
CAHG and Diaceutics to Launch Bioceutics Trending Now: New agency is putting the “person" back into personalized healthcare. CAHG, a global professional healthcare communications company, and Diaceutics Ltd., specialists in personalized healthcare consulting, software, and services, have launched...
By Ann Grey • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Innovator's Corner
The Fly Boy Dr. Ross Cagan’s approach to drug discovery aims to show how flies can be used to screen for new targets. The traditional process of finding a new drug starts by screening chemicals for their effect on a given target through cell-based screens. Modern drug discovery automates this, bu...
By Dr. Ross Cagan • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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UpFront
INDUSTRY at Large AbbVie Provides Grant for Math Education AbbVie has provided a a $350,000 grant for math education to the North Chicago public schools. The grant will enable educators to strengthen and reinforce the math curriculum for students (K-8) in the district and assist in the implementa...
By Denise Myshko • Jan. 28, 2014 -
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Letter to the Editor
Jonah Frohlich Managing Director Manatt Health Solutions The ACA is accelerating a reorganization of the healthcare delivery system from episodic, reactive, acute management of patients, to proactive, population-based delivery models. These changes, manifest as patient centered medical homes...
By Jonah Frohlich • Jan. 27, 2014 -
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Letter from the Editor
The State of the Industry many companies are at a crossroads, according to Cegedim Relationship management. Cegedim Relationship Management recently engaged key decision makers from leading global life-sciences enterprises to address some critical questions: how has the recent transformational pr...
By Taren Grom • Jan. 27, 2014 -
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The Philippines: Global Pharma Appeal
With 14 of the top 20 pharma companies establishing manufacturing facilities in the Philippines, the country is clearly a go-to destination. The Philippines, an island nation in Southeast Asia, has a population of more than 95 million people, making it the 12th most populated country in the world...
By Kim Ribbink • Dec. 28, 2013
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