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Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2006 |
Sewing Up New Sales Simple, elegant lines are the backbone of any good design, including a new sales model. Get that right, and your model can be tailored to fit any customer. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010 |
Optimizing TV Advertising Placements & Results Brand managers choosing to advertise an anti-depressant on "Criminal Minds" may not be making the best choice. New methodologies reveal "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" along with "The Bachelor" to be shows favored by depressives. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2011 |
Arming up for the Digital Revolution As a longtime advocate of new approaches to meeting customer needs in pharma, Martin Wygod sees the biggest change as the coming growth of digital platforms as the principal source of information and communication in healthcare. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2011 |
Off-Label But On Point? Use of off-label drugs is a balancing act for physicians, and poses even more problems for pharma. The FDA is moving slowly to help. |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2007 Jeffrey Zornitsky |
Sales Management: Get Committed By better managing relationships with physicians, pharma companies can develop a base of dedicated prescribers. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 Cabacungan & Clark |
New Ways to Gain New Brand Insights If you can learn to understand patient and physician behavior, you are well on your way to strengthening the position of your product. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Jason Hogg |
Marketing to Professionals: Diagnosing MD Behavior A centralized database allows pharma marketers to truly know doctors. |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Al Topin |
The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2005 Mike Iafolla & Steve Greco |
Under the Influence The number of influences that affect physicians' prescribing has increased and rep saturation has reached the tipping point, resulting in "customer fatigue." Companies must now take into account a plethora of influences when planning their sales and marketing efforts. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2011 William Looney |
The Medicines Adherence Challenge Keeping skittish patients on their medicines ought to be a strategic priority for Big Pharma, but is it? An expert round table examines how best to make progress and agree on some practical steps for incorporation in the campaign agenda. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2005 Zimmerman & Fay |
Marketing to Professionals: Dr. Ambassador The pharma industry is under siege in the news media. Smart companies must create a role for physicians as ambassadors who can raise patient confidence in drugs and the pharma industry as a whole. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Nickum & Kelly |
Missing the Mark(et) Pharmaceutical companies spend billions on data. Sales reps crowd the waiting rooms. So why is the doctor out? |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Musacchio & Hunkler |
More Than a Game of Keep Away The Prescribing Data Restriction Program takes effect in July. The AMA explains how individual doctors can keep their prescribing habits safe from reps, and how pharma can keep using the anonymous data -- if the industry polices itself. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2012 Al Topin |
Doctors' Words No Longer Gospel In the digital age, physicians don't call the shots when it comes to healthcare guidance. Marketers must appeal to multiple sources in seeking ways to garner patient adherence and loyalty. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2008 George Koroneos |
Hard of (Ad)hering Companies have responded to declining profits with a proliferation of patient compliance programs. But where is pharma in this paradigm shift? |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2007 Jeffrey Zornitsky |
Sales Management: Get Committed By better managing relationships with physicians, pharma companies can develop a base of dedicated prescribers. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2011 Jerry Coamey |
Engage the Physician! New research shows that gauging the mind of the clinician is crucial to timely uptake of the new diagnostic tools offered by the genomic revolution |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 3, 2007 LeVine & Zucker |
Marketing to Professionals: Professional Promotion Through Patient Understanding Patient-feedback programs can go a long way in helping physicians understand which drugs work. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 3, 2014 Mason Tenaglia |
The New Metrics of Market Success Profitability now depends on metrics to help companies answer a key strategic question: "stay the course" with more investment in sales and marketing? Or "stand down" and deploy those scarce assets somewhere else? |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2009 Brittany Agro |
The New Sales Force The arms race is over, and it's time to reinvent pharma sales. Here's what forward-looking companies are experimenting with, and how it's working. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2005 Patrick Burns |
Sales Management: A Sample Plan One of the pharma industry's most important promotional tools is also one of its least understood. Here are new approaches to measuring the impact of sampling--and giving reps the tools they need to use samples better. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2006 Scott Hull |
Back to the Future? Some states want to block access to doctor-level prescribing data. And the AMA helps members keep prescription records away from sales reps. An "old timer" remembers how he sold before databases came along. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2006 David Duplay |
Marketing to Professionals: A Sample Plan Sure, pharmaceutical e-sampling can save money. But there are plenty of other reasons to use it. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Uncontrolled Crying Over AVANIR's Prescription Data? It's been a slow start, but don't write off this company's pseudobulbar drug just yet. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Jennifer Ringler |
The Adherence Fight: A TKO? Why does the match against medicines compliance always seem to end in an easy knockout? |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010 |
When the Payer IS the Player As Medicare, Medicaid, and the nation's web of private payers gain market power, how can pharma stay ahead of the cost-containment curve? |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2008 |
Getting Personal(ized) Stop worrying about shrinking the market for your drug, and start figuring out how the "test and treat" business model works. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2006 Sharyn Lee |
Invisible Prescribers: What You Do and Don't Know About NPs and PAs How many prescriptions are written each year by nurse practitioners and physician assistants? Pharmaceutical companies not only fail to market to this sector, they neglect to invite nurse practitioners and physician assistants to meetings or to include them in plans for continuing medical education. |
American Family Physician January 15, 2007 Pollock et al. |
Appropriate Prescribing of Medications: An Eight-Step Approach These eight steps, along with ongoing self-directed learning, compose a systematic approach to prescribing that is efficient and practical for the family physician. |
Managed Care February 2002 Ira Studin |
Reframing the Pharmaceutical Manufacturer/Health Plan Relationship in Managed Care It is suggested that health plans address "total cost-of-care savings" in their budget process, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers establish a "consultative service function" in their managed care divisions... |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2005 Jeffrey Tangney |
Alternative Media: Mobile Marketing Through PDAs, pharmaceutical marketers have found an efficient way to communicate with and educate physicians. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Rubinstein & Galardi |
Bustin' a CAP: The Competative Acquisition Program The new Competitive Acquisition Program for Medicare Part B drugs aims to align market forces with the distribution of drugs and biologics that doctors administer in their offices, but increasing bureaucracy is a major downside. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2008 Jeffrey S. Aronin |
The Orphan Opportunity The Orphan Drug Act was passed 25 years ago. But the challenge of actually getting rare disease drugs and therapies to patients still remains |
BusinessWeek February 5, 2007 |
The Doctor Won't See You Now A host of forces is now converging to clamp down on hard-driving, gift-toting pharmaceutical pitchmasters who have been ambushing physicians for the last decade. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2005 Jill Wechsler |
Washington Report: "D" Is for Data It is critical for Medicare to address important questions on drug safety and utilization, and about how prescribing decisions affect health outcomes and costs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2006 Breitstein & Clinton |
Market Research Roundtable A group of top market researchers to discuss the issues shaping an evolving pharmaceuticals industry. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2006 Beth Herskovits |
Freedom of Information IMS and Verispan sue New Hampshire to buy prescriber data and to protect the data sellers' free-speech rights. |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2011 Frank Vinluan |
GSK's New Drug Marketing Model: Pharma Reps As Educators, Not Sellers The conversation between sales reps and doctors today is vastly different compared to one year ago. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2006 Patrick Clinton |
From the Editor: Undecided People are buying drugs, because companies are selling drugs. Interfere with the selling process, and people won't buy as many drugs. |
Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff |
The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Tenaglia & Angelastro |
No Margin for Error Pharmaceutical companies that will be forced to cut back on sales and marketing spending must focus on value, not volume. Here's how to reduce your spending where it matters the least. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 Michael Goodman |
A Very Specialty Moment Big Pharma is on a shopping spree for biologics and other specialty products. It has the money to buy them. But does it have the mojo to develop and market them successfully - or will the mid-size biopharmas make their big move? |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2006 Chandler & Chicco |
Public Relations: Damage Control Unless pharma defines a compelling story, and defends it vigorously in the consumer marketplace, others will enter that vacuum and tell the story for it -- in far less flattering ways |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2007 |
Marketing to Professionals: Resource Allocation A Stanford professor schools pharma on professional marketing. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Ben Comer |
An IOU to Big Pharma Regarding EHR It's a work in progress among electronic health records providers to offer a clear bridge between pharma and physicians. |
Managed Care October 2004 Tony Schueth |
Formulary Standards Key To E-Prescribing Success Electronic prescribing needs standardization before it's adopted by the masses. Start with the format of formulary databases. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 3, 2007 Jessica DiPaolo |
Toolkit: Good Tailoring Does your marketing campaign reach the huddled masses of frustrated or illiterate healthcare consumers? |
Bio-IT World September 2005 Michael A. Greeley |
Harvesting Patient Data Longitudinal data tools will allow pharmaceuticals to optimize sales force deployments and distribution strategies based on medical impacts of their compounds across various population sets. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2009 Michael Maher |
Learning to Relate A multi-phase implementation strategy can debunk the myth that social media won't work for pharma. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2005 Jill Wechsler |
Washington Report: The e-Bandwagon The federal government is driving e-Rx adoption by establishing standards that Medicare drug plans will have to adopt by 2009, and HHS officials are pushing to make this happen much earlier. |