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Mahmood Majeed, Vickye Jain, Sandeep Varma

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Charting an Effective Big Data Strategy

Big data has proven to be a valuable business asset, but using it to gain competitive advantage requires the right combination of strategy, technology and execution, write Mahmood Majeed, Vickye Jain, and Sandeep Varma.


George P. Sillup, Stephen J. Porth, Cynthia Slater

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News Spotlight: Pharma

Pharm Exec’s 13th Annual Press Audit audit reveals a tonal undercurrent in sync with an industry unable to escape the glare of scrutiny.


Daniel Brettler

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Opioid Litigation: Evading the Widening Crosshairs

The role of insurance and risk management in protecting middle-market distributors from the growing opioid multi-district litigation (MDL).


David Keane

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Can AI Improve Sales Productivity in Pharma?

With the physician-access climate as daunting as ever for sales reps, four best practices in implementing artificial intelligence-based technology to help achieve engagement wins are explored.


Connie Bazos

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Building a Digital Health Infrastructure

Outlining the four core elements pharma companies need to lay the foundation for a solid digital health infrastructure.


Nick Broughton

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Challenging the Current Compliance Paradigm

Pharma needs a reeducation on what it means to be compliant.


Mary Ann Slack

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Leveraging Health IT to Improve Drug Development

The FDA's Mary Ann Slack outlines how the Agency is working to adopt electronic practices by initiating efforts to simplify the submission process for new drug and generic drug applications.


Pieter De Richter

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Targeting the Affluent: Differential Access to Targeted Therapies in China

Disparities in income levels in China continue to drive far-reaching differences in how poorer and richer cancer patients are treated, with recent data suggesting that the differences in access to treatment lead to different outcomes for poorer patients. Peter De Richter reports.


Renaud Savary

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Branded Generics in the Emerging Markets

Branded generics in select emerging markets can offer above-market returns, writes Renaud Savary.


Maiko Midena

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The Fundamental Pillars of Good Forecasting

Maiko Midena discusses the key fundamentals to success when it comes to forecasting with large multinational pharmaceutical organizations.


Mitra Rocca

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Leveraging Health IT to Improve Drug Development

The FDA's Mary Ann Slack outlines how the Agency is working to adopt electronic practices by initiating efforts to simplify the submission process for new drug and generic drug applications.


Cherry Cabading and Mona Rakibe

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Global Harmonization of Customer Data

Cherry Cabading and Mona Rakibe outline how the use of modern data management techniques can help companies see improvements in sales effectiveness, data steward productivity and overall data quality.


Julian Suchman

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Syncing Social Media With Value-Care Model

Outlining the new communication priorities necessary to excel in the emerging outcomes-based healthcare landscape.


Heath Jackson

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Why Pharma Needs to Catch Up On Digital

A recent IT leadership survey found that many more pharma companies are reporting their digital strategies are ineffective compared to other industries. Heath Jackson looks at why this is – and what they need to do about it.



Gabriela P. Baron

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Avoiding a CIA: Analytics and the Search for Dangerous Data

Internal oversight and the tools to remain compliant are critical to companies seeking to avoid corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) or efficiently fulfill existing agreements. In either case, CIAs can be a business advantage, writes Gabriela P. Baron.


Alessandra Franceschetti

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mAb Biosimilars: The Future of Cancer Treatment?

Time will determine the shape of biosimilar usage in oncology, but they will play a significant role in the battle against cancer in the future, writes Alessandra Franceschetti.


Adele Gulfo

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Seizing the Opportunity in STEM

How STEM helps women advance from lab bench to boardroom.


Maria Whitman

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Beyond the Science: Commercial Implications From ASCO 2017

Four strategic takeaways from this year's that are important for pharma oncology leaders.


Uttam Barick

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The Future of Real-World Studies

Pharma companies today must increasingly provide evidence on real-world outcomes to differentiate and justify their products. But what is the true potential of real-world evidence studies and what are the right questions to ask in determining product performance in the marketplace?


Moe Alsumidaie

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How Emerging Biopharmas Can Obtain VC Funding

Ken Shimokawa, Founder and General Partner of G4S Capital, shares insights into what venture capitalists look for when evaluating emerging biopharmaceutical opportunities.


Bengt Anell, Sangeeta Budhia, Richard Macaulay

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Aligning Early Advice with Long-Term Planning

The five ways pharma developers can get the most out of early engagement with payers and regulators when plotting their clinical and commercial evidence plans.


Boaz Sigelman

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Time to Disrupt SOPs

Pharma companies still keep thousands of manufacturing procedures as text documents, an inefficient method can lead to defective batches, recalls and warning letters. Why not use video for training where applicable, asks Boaz Sigelman.



Funso Olufade

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Packaging for Patient Engagement

Funso Olufade discusses how solutions such as the new Adherence Package can help increase pharma–patient engagement.



Deborah Lotterman and Jeremy Schafer

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Financial Toxicity: Tracking a Growing Side Effect

Jeremy Schafer and Deborah Lotterman discuss the impact that financial toxicity is having on patients and payers and outline the strategies pharma need to adopt to begin to remedy it.


Ranjit Bains

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Functional Service Partnerships: A Case Study for CRO Resource Management

A review of a recent FSP in which the CRO partner assumed clinical monitoring and site support responsibility for more than 50 ongoing trials.


Timothy King

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Functional Service Partnerships: A Case Study for CRO Resource Management

A review of a recent FSP in which the CRO partner assumed clinical monitoring and site support responsibility for more than 50 ongoing trials.


Denise Moody

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Functional Service Partnerships: A Case Study for CRO Resource Management

A review of a recent FSP in which the CRO partner assumed clinical monitoring and site support responsibility for more than 50 ongoing trials.