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American Hospital Association turns up the heat on commercial insurers in scathing report

MedCity News

Commercial insurers’ practices, such as prior authorization and white bagging, are needed to reduce costs for patients, said Kristine Grow, senior vice president of communications at AHIP.

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CCC Now Offering Subscriptions to the JAMA Network and The New England Journal of Medicine Through RightFind

Copyright Clearance Center

August 9, 20 22 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC , a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is now offering subscriptions to select publishers including the JAMA Network and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) through CCC’s advanced content workflow solution, RightFind , to meet the needs of researchers in organizations with fewer than 500 employees.

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The role of mindfulness in healthcare from behavioral health to physical therapy [Sponsored]

MedCity News

Clinicians used to wonder if there was a role for mindfulness meditation in healthcare. But after the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare the overwhelming need for practical solutions in behavioral health, the question has shifted to what role it can play.

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Two Key Questions About Adherence/Compliance in 2022

PM360

PM360 asked life sciences industry experts with knowledge about improving adherence to medication to share the latest trends and approaches being used and to tell us how better data and monitoring can help solve this issue. Specifically, we wanted to know: What are the current biggest trends in how the life sciences industry is approaching ways to improve medication adherence?

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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Scott Burrows, Pharmaceutical Sales Speaker

Scott Burrows

Resilience in Pharma Sales: Now More than Ever As a motivational sales speaker for the pharmaceutical industry, I tell my audiences that COVID-19 might also be characterized as the disease that changed an industry. It is kind of ironic.

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10 New Solutions, Strategies, and Devices to Boost Adherence

PM360

How can we help ensure patients continue to take their medications as prescribed? Doctors, caregivers, life sciences companies, and even companies in other industries have attempted to answer this question for as long as medications have been available. But it is not a simple answer. The reasons why a patient may not take their medication are plentiful, and as a result so are the solutions now available to attempt to solve this issue.

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Penn Medicine’s venture fund makes 2 investments to address SDOH

MedCity News

The Penn Medicine-Wharton Fund for Health, Penn’s venture fund focused on social determinants of health, recently announced investments in its fifth and sixth companies. The fund invested in two Philadelphia-based startups, Fabric Health and Stimulus, bringing its total amount of invested capital to $1.35 million.

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FDA okays ProstatID software for detecting prostate cancer in MRI

pharmaphorum

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology specialist Bot Image has won FDA approval for its artificial intelligence-powered software ProstatID, used for the detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer. The software is combined with traditional MRI scanning to improve the “accuracy and speed” of prostate cancer diagnosis by improving the diagnostic resolution of images, according to the company, which makes it available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) to radiology departments.

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Getting the healthcare first impression right through smart pre-care engagement

MedCity News

The trifecta of increasing consumerism, staff burnout, and deferred care is a fundamental and new challenge that every healthcare provider in the country must overcome. The solution needs to start at the very start of the care journey when patients are still formulating an opinion of their provider and the care they are likely to receive.

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How to Nail Your Introduction in an Interview

MedReps

“So, can you tell me a little about yourself?” It’s a question we expect but don’t always understand. That’s because the interviewer really wants to know, “Who are you, and why should I consider you a serious candidate?” The introduction, from saying hello to telling your story, is one of the most critical parts of the medical sales interview.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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SCAN Health Plan to move into Texas, expand presence in Nevada

MedCity News

With the expansion, pending CMS approval, Long Beach, California-based SCAN will reach nearly 7 million potential customers across four states, including California and Arizona.

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PM360 Q&A with Adrian Adams, Chairman & CEO, Impel Pharmaceuticals

PM360

Over the course of his career, Adrian Adams has served as CEO of seven different pharma companies, including Aralez Pharmaceuticals, Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Neurologix, Sepracor, and Kos Pharmaceuticals. Most recently, he took over the then-called Impel NeuroPharma in May 2020—at the height of the pandemic—and since then has led the company through its first product approval, undergone an initial public offering (IPO), rebranded to Impel Pharmaceuticals, and attracted

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Merck turns to biotech Cerevance to feed neuro pipeline with Alzheimer’s drugs

MedCity News

Merck is paying $25 million to kick off a research partnership with Cerevance, a startup that analyzes donor brain tissue to find novel targets for new neurological disorder drugs. While Cerevance’s lead program is a Parkinson’s disease drug, Merck is wants to see if the startup’s technology can help it discover and develop new Alzheimer’s disease drugs.

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How Prince and Warhol Got to the Supreme Court

Copyright Clearance Center

The post How Prince and Warhol Got to the Supreme Court appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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Roles and Responsibilities of Specialized Clinical Supply Experts

When selecting a clinical supply provider, consideration often focuses upon the manufacturing, packaging, storage and distribution capabilities available that will, at face-value, be sufficient to meet the needs of the sponsor and their trial. However, there are human-based and knowledge-driven factors that are often overlooked that go beyond these basic physical capabilities and are integral to the development and delivery of high performing clinical supply chains.

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Stanford spinout raises $14M for its point-of-care physician consult service

MedCity News

Atropos Health, a startup spun out of Stanford University that provides point-of-care physician consults, recently raised $14 million in Series A funding. The company will use the money to further develop the oncology consult product it is building with ASCO, as well as grow its commercial team.

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Big Pharma deal-making primed for acceleration

European Pharmaceutical Review

After a prolonged period of scepticism towards major moves in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, leading biopharmaceutical multinationals are returning to big deal-making. The M&A data for the second quarter of 2022 shows that while both the number of pharma deals signed and their overall value are still low compared to 2021, there are signs of a revival.

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Hacking healthcare: Protecting patient data while maintaining access

MedCity News

With cyber attacks on a steady incline, something needs to be done so that similar fates can be avoided and patient trust can be prioritized. There are four key best practices that, with the right data access technology in place, can protect healthcare companies from hacks and attacks.

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Pfizer to acquire Global Blood Therapeutics in $5.4bn deal

European Pharmaceutical Review

Pfizer has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT) , a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of life-changing treatments for underserved patient communities, such as those with sickle cell disease (SCD). According to Pfizer, the acquisition complements and further enhances its more than 30-year heritage in rare haematology, reinforcing the company’s commitment to SCD “by bringing expertise and a leading portfolio and

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Turning harp seal contraceptives into a ‘new genre’ of cancer treatments

PharmaVoice

With Andrew Hall at its helm, IMV has evolved an animal contraceptive into a unique drug delivery platform aimed at creating targeted cancer immunotherapies for humans.

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Verona’s ensifentrine meets primary endpoint

PharmaTimes

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phase 3 study shows statistically significant improvements in lung function

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Making Sales to Government-Run Hospitals

Scott’s Directories

The process of making sales to government-run hospitals is quite different from that of making sales to private hospitals. Since government-run hospitals work for the greater good of the entire community, a few crucial factors need to be considered. If you want to use a Winnipeg doctors list , for example, you need to know how to approach them correctly.

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Arecor granted European patents to protect Humira formulations

PharmaTimes

Patents show potential of innovative Arestat technology and the development of enhanced formulations

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Accelerating Clinical Supply Through Integrated Drug Development

As the development pipeline for new drugs continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are re-evaluating how to best manage and balance resources across an increasing number of development projects and complex clinical trials. There are two approaches that can be used to speed a drug from development to clinic faster: timeline compression and parallel processing, but only one that considers the benefits of integrating clinical supply into the overall drug development process.

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FDI drivers in 2022: ESG

Pharmaceutical Technology

Embracing environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria is rising in importance as a driver of foreign direct investment (FDI) , with investors increasingly taking into account such criteria as part of their site selection decision. However, when it comes to responsible investing, there is more to it than simply ticking off the 'E', 'S' and 'G'.

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Healthcare Watch July/August 2022

PM360

Brand Beat: Juul Fights FDA Ban. Shortly after banning Juul from selling its products, the FDA placed a hold on its decision in order to review the company’s case more closely. At this time, Juul can continue sales in the U.S., however, the company is required to prove to the FDA that their e-cigarettes in fact benefit the public. Juul’s claim is that adults who choose their products are more likely to quit or reduce smoking and teens are unlikely to become addicted to their products.

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Healthtech deals decreased significantly in the pharma industry in H1 2022

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the first half of 2022 the number of deals relating to healthtech decreased significantly by 28.7% from the same period in 2021. This marks an acceleration in growth from the 34.7% decrease in deals that occurred in H2 2021 relative to the same period a year earlier. GlobalData's deals database looks at mergers, acquisitions and venture capital and private equity investments taking place daily between thousands of companies across the world.

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Fewer Prescribers Are Driving NBRx Than You Think—Here’s Why

PM360

According to a 2021 study by Statista, 40% of prescriptions written in 2005 were for brand-name medications. By 2020, that percentage plummeted to just 8%. 1 How is this possible, given that more than 20,000 prescription drugs are currently in circulation in the U.S. 2 and over a million actively licensed physicians 3 are available to prescribe them?

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Applying the Power of Storytelling to Sales Conversations

CLD, Inc.

Together we will explore the power of storytelling and techniques for incorporating into your sales training. You will learn how storytelling creates order and structure for a sales call, enhances conversations with healthcare providers, and makes them personalized and memorable. In addition, we will provide specifics on how to train your sales force on storytelling techniques, showing representatives how to tailor each story to the interests and needs of the provider and their patients.

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Adjusting to a World Without Blockbusters

PM360

The era of the global pharmaceutical blockbuster is coming to an end. According to ZS research, the top pharma companies have more than $230 billion in worldwide revenues at risk from 2022 to 2030 with an estimated 69 blockbusters expected to lose patents during this time. That is why the industry must move into a new era of global marketing. One in which the heights of blockbuster success may not be possible, but companies can still thrive with more targeted launches around the world.

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Behind the Creative….Inspiring Award Winning Creative with Halen Dang and Carrie Morris

PharmExec

Proximyl Health’s Halen Dang, VP, Creative Director of Art and Carrie Morris, VP, Creative Director of Copy discuss remote teamwork and how to successfully lead agency creative teams with hybrid schedules.

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Filings buzz in pharmaceuticals: 24% decrease in artificial intelligence mentions in Q2 of 2022

Pharmaceutical Technology

Mentions of artificial intelligence within the filings of companies in the pharmaceutical industry fell 24% between the first and second quarters of 2022. In total, the frequency of sentences related to artificial intelligence between July 2021 and June 2022 was 400% higher than in 2016 when GlobalData, from whom our data for this article is taken, first began to track the key issues referred to in company filings.

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The New Clinical Trial Supply Chain: Resilient, Flexible, and Patient-Centric

The global landscape of clinical trials is rapidly changing as studies become more complex. An increasing number of sponsors are seeking enhanced flexibility in their supply chains to address a variety of clinical supply challenges, including patient demand and reducing delays. Demand-led supply and direct-to-patient distribution are next-generation solutions that are helping to meet these growing needs, allowing for more streamlined processes and patient-centric studies.