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Tony Owens

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Digital Transformation: What's the Cost of Doing Nothing?

Right now, the smartest incumbents are channeling the forces of disruption to their own ends, leading digital transformation in order to avoid being left behind, writes Tony Owens.


Angie Drakulich

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Atypical Visible Particles: Can Users and Makers Find Common Ground?

In April 2012, industry experts discussed the issue of atypical visible particles in pharmaceutical raw materials, including excipients, at the joint International Pharmaceutical Excipient Council’s (IPEC) Regulatory Conference and ExcipientFest-Americas Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico


Stephanie Sutton

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Pharma's Most Productive Innovators: The Top Ten

Consultancy firm IDEA Pharma has released what it calls a ‘Productive Innovation Index’, which ranks pharmaceutical companies based on their ability to successfully commercialize new innovations.


Rafael Natanek and George Eliades

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Why "Episodes" Matter for Doctors

A customer "episode" is a key unit of management that can produce significant growth and cost savings, writes George Eliades.


Boris Bogdan, M.D

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New Product Launch Playbook: Shaking up Status Quo in Pharma Marketing

In this demanding environment, yesterday’s product launch playbook can no longer be relied upon to yield the expected patient or business outcomes, writes Boris Bogdan.



LexisNexis® Health Care

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How to Select the Right Data Partner to Benefit Your Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions takes you inside the key considerations of making the all-important choice to partner with a data provider. Go beyond the well-polished sales pitches and understand the underlying implication of finding the right fit across 5 critical areas of business.


Tom Kottler

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It’s Time for a Chief Adherence Officer

Op-Ed: The best way to capitalize on the potential revenue influx from enterprise-level drug adherence programs is to create room at the executive table for a Chief Adherence Officer.


Mir Imran

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Lessons on the Innovation Journey

Rani Therapeutics CEO Mir Imran recounts the lessons he's learned in founding more than 20 life sciences companies and developing more than 400 patents.


Miranda Wheatley Price

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Building a Key Account Organization: 5 Power Questions

If companies are serious about building a sustainable organization for their employees and becoming a partner to key accounts, they need to be prepared to remodel their whole business around it, writes Miranda Wheatley Price.


Melissa Leonhauser

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Leveraging Lab Data in Advent of Personalized Marketing

Laboratory testing has become a critical access point for sales teams in the age of personalized medicine.


Sudip Parikh

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Piecing Together the Pricing Puzzle: The Midterm Elections

There is no magic bullet that will dramatically impact drug pricing to everybody’s liking. But a stepwise approach involving a series of reforms, including taking advantage of the next midterm elections, could point the path toward a solution.


Meghan Burke

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What Can Pharmaceutical Companies do to Feel Better About Reputation?

Reputation Institute study finds that the reputation of pharma companies is in decline and might get worse before it gets better.


Sebastian Bather

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Nurse Educators: Bridging China's Patient Care Gap

China's nurse educator program aims to improve quality of care and make life simpler for physicians handling high patient load. Sebastian Bather reports.


Ron Wince

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Pragmatic AI in Pharma

Ron Wince explains how Pragmatic AI allows organizations to start with the basics, create immediate business value and ROI and then increase adoption as their comfort, capabilities and confidence increases.


Croom Lawrence and Kent Groves

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Connecting the 5 Spheres of People-Based Marketing

From persistent identity to cloud marketing driven by AI, managing holistic experience is now the hallmark of brand leadership. Croom Lawrence and Kent Groves explains how people-based marketing plays a key role.


Paul Sullivan

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Can Realistic Training Devices Help Make a Blockbuster?

Realistic, multisensory training devices can contribute to a drug’s reception in the eyes of both patients and healthcare practitioners, writes Paul Sullivan.


Josh Reisberg

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Beyond the Merits: Generic Company Defense Strategies

Josh Reisberg outlines the foundation of a broad, overall defense strategy for generic companies embroiled in Hatch-Waxman patent infringement litigations.


Brenda Gleason

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Value-Based Purchasing for Prescription Drugs Takes a Leap Forward in State Medicaid

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are commitment to support value-based purchasing (VBP) of prescription drugs in Medicaid, despite headlines of CMS’s rejection of a Massachusetts request to make changes in its Medicaid prescription drug benefit.


Filip Conic

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Pathways to Potential in Europe's Pharmerging Markets

Filip Conic outlines the market-access approaches and commercial strategies to unlock the growth potential in the Southeastern and Eastern European region.


Patrick Ladbury, Oliver Childs

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Patient Communications: Why Pharma Leaders Should Think Like Social Marketers

By exploring how social marketers think, pharma can unlock tried-and-tested ways to bring measurable value to their patients, writes Patrick Ladbury and Oliver Childs.


Sharad Bijanki

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Early-Development Strategy for PTE in Biologics Given Unknowns in the Law

The importance of early development strategy and planning for biologic patent term extension.


Kevin J. Slatkavitz

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A Seat at the Strategy Table

How navigating compliance risks requires so much more than policies and procedures.


Wills Hughes-Wilson

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Patient & Customer-Centric Commercialization

Outlining a real-world example in which building and operationalizing a patient- and customer-centric commercialization strategy drove a successful launch from a “standing start.”


Birgitte Volck

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Patient & Customer-Centric Commercialization

Outlining a real-world example in which building and operationalizing a patient- and customer-centric commercialization strategy drove a successful launch from a “standing start.”


Alan Raffensperger

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Patient & Customer-Centric Commercialization

Outlining a real-world example in which building and operationalizing a patient- and customer-centric commercialization strategy drove a successful launch from a “standing start.”


Micheal Binns

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Early-Development Strategy for PTE in Biologics Given Unknowns in the Law

The importance of early development strategy and planning for biologic patent term extension.


Jane Reed

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Traditional Scientific Search is Broken

Using AI to revolutionize research inefficiency. 


Raman Sehgal

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EMA Relocation Countdown: Some Industry Viewpoints

Raman Sehgal talks to three industry leaders for their insights on the challenges faced across the life science sector and how the EMA needs to respond.