Authors




Herspiegel

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Navigating Success During a Rare Disease Product Launch

Webinar Date/Time: Thu, Feb 15, 2024 11:00 AM EST


Graeme Hutton

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How One Pollster Correctly Predicted Brexit

Only one polling company correctly predicted the UK's Brexit outcome. Graeme Hutton reports.


Kevin E. Noonan, PhD

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The True Nature of Danger Behind IP Waiver Proposal

Issue represents a potential threat in fighting future pandemics.



Paul Darling

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Commercial Models for a New Healthcare Ecosystem

Companies must design local commercial models that enable them to deliver value stories tailored to the specific needs of organized customers and the characteristics of local ecosystems, writes Paul Darling.




Ram Subramanian, Dr. Rehan Baqri

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Branding: When One is Not Enough

The power of a second brand in the evolving global healthcare market, write Ram Subramanian and Dr. Rehan Baqri.


Richard Burcham

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Pharma dot-gov: A New Business Model

An advocate of business system automation in the global pharma supply chain offers a six-pronged approach to adapting to the realities of a new age of mounting regulation and customer expectations.


Gary Kaplan

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Eight Tips on Improving KOL Engagement

Gary Kaplan offers surveying tips to help identify both tactical and strategic initiatives required for a true key performance indicator.


Michael Kleinrock

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Supply Chain Integration or Bust… or Both

The recent formation of three mega supply-chain purchasing groups (Walgreen’s-AllianceBoots-AmerisourceBergen-Rite-Aid, McKesson-Celesio, CVS-Cardinal) denotes a shift in the balance of power between wholesalers, chains, generic pharmaceutical companies and branded pharma companies.



Arvind Mani and Sherry O' Quinn

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Private Payers in Canada Embrace Product Listing Agreements

Arvind Mani and Sherry O' Quinn outline the prevalence of private payer PLAs in Canada.


Bruno Villetelle

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The Digital Healthcare Evolution

Bruno Villetelle discusses how Japanese companies like Takeda have begun to digitize in order to care for the country's aging population.


Heather Gartman

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What “Precision Medicine” Means for Rare Diseases

President Obama’s year-old, $200 million Precision Medicine initiative (PMI) seems to be doing exactly what was intended, writes Heather Gartman.


Clara Heering

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What Errors Do We Miss in Clinical Trials?

As new ICH GCP draft guidelines now require root cause analysis, novel methods for risk analysis and triage must be adopted in drug development.


Douglas Strang

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Beyond 2020: Building Strategic Coherence in the New Health Economy

Positioning for success in biopharma requires a self-critical analysis of the risk and rewards among four categories of value differentiation. The key question: How do you define yourself against the competition?


Jo Pisani

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Brexit Report: What's Next for the Industry?

As the UK exits the European Union, the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries should prepare for changes by identifying key business issues, mitigating risks and creating plans for multiple scenarios.


Elvis Pacelat

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The Great Life Sciences Regulatory Redress

Elvis Paćelat outlines some lessons from big pharma as medical device manufacturers succumb to new reporting obligations.


LexisNexis

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March 2017: Big Data, Big Opportunity in Life Sciences

The big data transformation is poised to seep through the life sciences universe, promising to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of annual costs in the U.S. biopharmaceutical segment alone.


Dave Nellesen

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The Fruits of Comparative Effectiveness

New CER tools grant payers the evidence they need to control drug costs


John S. Linehan

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Coupon-Program Pivot: Meeting New Legal, Operational Hurdles

Pharma manufacturers may need to upgrade their coupon programs to accommodate for the emergence of copay accumulators and related benefit mechanisms.


Anne O'Riordan and Jeff Elton

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Disruptive Forces Driving a New Order in Healthcare Business Models

Several factors are combining to change the definition of what healthcare truly is, and how it will be delivered and experienced in the next few years.



B.J. Richards

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Making the Most of Management Consulting

Intense regulatory demands, cost pressure, and the need to be ever more efficient has led to an upturn in the use of management consultants in the pharma & biotech sector, writes B.J. Richards.


Urs Wiedemann

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Raising the Stakes On Value-Based Pricing

The importance of betting on outcomes, not simply risk sharing, when implementing pharma-payer arrangements. .


Andrew Parece

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Pricing for Rare Disease and Curative Therapies: What’s Fair?

There has been a considerable amount of attention given to the rising costs of pharmaceutical and biotechnology therapies in the US. In early 2020, Charles River Associates conducted this research to determine what "fair" prices would be for these therapies.