Technology

Healthcare and pharma executives have recovered their optimism in the past year, according to an EIU survey.

Pharm Exec’s annual report highlights the key scientific, commercial, and reputational trends shaping the industry in the year ahead.

Frost & Sullivan has released its "Drug Launch and Phase 3 Trial Watch List for Top Therapy Areas for 2015".

WHO's tuberculosis program leader and the CFO of Ultragenyx jojn Board of Directors.

Richard Bergström, Director General of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) has called for "homogenization of European HTA bodies and regulation"

CVS confirmed this week that it will exclusively offer Gilead's Harvoni and Sovaldi to members through its CVS/Caremark commercial, exchange, Medicare Part D, and Medicaid formularies.

Oxford University doctors and scientists have begun the first safety trial of Janssen's experimental Ebola vaccine in the UK.

Big Pharma and foreign investors are "flocking" to Turkey to capitalize on its encouraging economic policies, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan.

Isis Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Janssen Biotech to develop three antisense drugs to treat autoimmune disorders of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

The Colorectal Cancer (CRC) therapeutics market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is set to increase in value, from $1.9 billion in 2013 to $2.9 billion by 2020 (a Compound Annual Growth Rate [CAGR] of 6.5%), says a new report from GBI Research.

Two of the industry's most influential conferences occurred within weeks of each other this autumn – TEDMED and Health 2.0. Bill Drummy reviews both events.

Data analytic strategies can help companies capitalise on personalised medicine, writes Jill E. Sackman and Michael Kuchenreuther.

Will the FDA's social media guidelines help your digital strategy to take off? Check out what they say - and what they mean- in the latest issue of Pharm Exec Global Digest

Three medical affairs experts - Sean Turbeville, David A. Wells, and Charles Wolfus - review the capabilities of Google’s latest technology for delivering information to healthcare professionals in the field.

The med-tech industry has a legacy of creating life-extending products while rewarding investors. This connection between innovation and profitability has been a key driver. But, writes Doug Mowen, change is underway.

Bill Drummy reports on the key healthcare takeaways from this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.

For pharma marketers, the good news is recent advances in social media monitoring make it possible to listen to or engage with patients on social media websites.

Recent research says social media and messaging apps are continuing to proliferate. But not so with senior execs, who are starting to avoid these networks altogether, says Chris Molloy.

Scignal Plus Taking the Noise Out of Signal Detection

Three years into the Apple-led tablet era, the iPad is still being used as no more than a glorified touchscreen. Gabriel Cangiano, Ron Kane, and David Windhausen look at the key role it can play in the future of pharma.

How to Implement an ePRO Strategy

Mukhtaer Ahmed outlines how advances in machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies have the potential to transform clinical development programs, including clinical trials.

Are electronic health records a viable channel for engagement? Ben Comer reports.

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