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Pharma and insurers raking in the cash

World of DTC Marketing

HEY NOW : Most companies struggled in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic froze the economy, but health insurers like UnitedHealth heavily benefited as people held off on going to the doctor or hospital, resulting in fewer medical claims that needed to be paid. In addition, pharma profit margins remain very high. UnitedHealth Group registered more than $6.6 billion in profits in the second quarter — by far the conglomerate’s highest quarterly profit ever, according to an ana

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Aligning Customer Communication Styles With Your Own

Integrity Solutions

The Behavioral Styles ® model is an easy-to-use tool for assessing the behavioral characteristics that fall within four distinct customer communication styles: Talker, Doer, Controller and Supporter. Does communication style matter when it comes to sales? More than you might expect. Studies show that over 80% of customer dissatisfaction is rooted in emotional issues rather than intellectual ones.

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Episode 27 – Preparing and Executing Virtual Presentation and Communication Success

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes In past episodes of the podcast and video cast, we have covered various components of virtual presentations and virtual selling. Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, brings all these components and more together to help guide us to professional virtual presentations that will get results in the MedTech world. BrightCarbon is a presentation design company that has worked with life science companies of all sizes to help them communicate their stories and va

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COVID-19: Challenges, Innovation, and What’s Ahead in 2021

Pharma Marketing Network

Below is a Q&A with Mark Bard, Co-Founder of The DHC Group, who offers his insights on the challenges COVID-19 has brought to pharma, as well as what innovation is taking place due to this full shift to digital and what lies ahead in the future. What is the most challenging aspect of COVID-19 for the industry? Mark Bard: I think the most challenging aspect of the current situation is the inability of anyone – patient, physician, payor, or pharma – to truly predict how long it will take for v

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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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BPCI-A Data Comes This Week from CMS – Are You Ready? (Part 1)

Clarify Health

By the end of this week, CMS will ship refreshed baseline data to all participants in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) program. The decisions that Hospital and Physician Group Practice (PGP) participants must make by mid-December have broad implications, especially as mandatory bundles from CMS become more of a certainty. In this two-part blog series, we’ll do the following: Part 1: Summarize the MY4 changes, strategic implications, and why a proper Diagnostic using th

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Why Your Linkedin Profile Picture is Costing you Job Opportunities (and How to Fix it)

Sales Talent

Do you know how favorable of a first impression that your Linkedin Profile photo makes? If it’s less than excellent, your Linkedin profile picture is costing you potential career opportunities, and we’ll explain how. We’ll also share a free tool that uses real people to score the first impression that your photo makes. Before we do, let’s start with how your Linkedin Profile Picture can help you stand out and secure more interviews.

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Key Learnings from DHC’s HCP Communication Innovation

Pharma Marketing Network

Co-Founder of The DHC Group, Mark Bard, held a 20-minute expert panel discussion on HCP Communication Innovation, focusing on how COVID-19 is accelerating the shift to digital in pharma marketing, what we are witnessing and what we are learning in the process. 1. COVID-19 is accelerating pharma’s shift to digital and changing the way it engages with HCPs.

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BPCI-A Data Comes This Week from CMS – Are You Ready? (Part 1)

Clarify Health

By the end of this week, CMS will ship refreshed baseline data to all participants in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) program. The decisions that Hospital and Physician Group Practice (PGP) participants must make by mid-December have broad implications, especially as mandatory bundles from CMS become more of a certainty. In [.].

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Get ready for HUGE healthcare changes

World of DTC Marketing

WHAT? There is going to be more coverage for virtual doctors’ visits in new employee health plans along with expanded mental health benefits and access to on-site health clinics. Of course, this comes at an increased cost even though health insurers are making a lot of money. Employees for the most part are happy with their health insurance but that happiness is going to come at a higher cost.

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Perspectives from a registered nurse on data-driven approaches to case management assessments

Clarify Health

This week, October 11-17, is National Case Management Week 2020 (NCMW2020). To all the amazing case managers: your hard work and dedication to patients deserve to be formally recognized. Thank you for your contributions and tiresome work assessing, planning, facilitating, care coordinating, evaluating, and advocating on behalf of patients and their families to get every [.].

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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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Perspectives from a registered nurse on data-driven approaches to case management assessments

Clarify Health

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Anti-Vaxxers could cause deaths from COVID

World of DTC Marketing

KEY PONTIFICATION: If the coronavirus vaccine is 75 percent effective—which would be excellent, considering that the flu shot is only about 50 percent effective—roughly two-thirds of the population would need to be vaccinated, according to Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. But with 50% of the population now saying they won’t get a vaccine we could be in for a mask-wearing culture for a long time.

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COVID-19 in the US: Stupidity and misinformation

World of DTC Marketing

NOT AGAIN: America, at one time, was seen as the leader of the free world but with our democracy comes a huge dose of stupidity. And where are the voices of reason? Where is pharma? Where are insurers? From the Finacial Times comes this definition of stupidity “ Ardis Cerny does not wear a face mask, even though she is 71 and living in a coronavirus hotspot.

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