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Steps to building a more patient-centric industry

pharmaphorum

Lack of access, strict regulations, and demanding schedules have made it extremely difficult for patients to participate in clinical trials. A 2018 NIH survey found that patients felt clinical trial participation to be inconvenient and burdensome, and nearly half (49.0%) said it disrupted their daily routine.

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Putting Patients First: Improving the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Impetus Digital

Medications and supplies must be handled with the utmost care, often needing to comply with strict temperature regulations and changing demands from patients and providers that vary depending on the country. Add this to infrastructure challenges like cold storage or delays, and it’s no wonder patient needs are not always put first.

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Meeting rising demands of a new radiotheranostic era

European Pharmaceutical Review

Cancer patients critically depend on accurate diagnosis and disease treatment. By reaching cancer cells that have already spread throughout the body, a targeted radiopharmaceutical treatment offers an alternative for patients with advanced cancer when standard lines of treatment, such as chemotherapy, have failed.

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Leading pharmaceutical logistics and pharma supply chain companies

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical supply chain is a global and complex network that includes a wide range of stakeholders such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), to ensure efficient and timely delivery of medications to the patients.

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Benefits of blockchain in limiting counterfeit drug distribution

European Pharmaceutical Review

Challenges in the pharmaceutical supply chain Pharmaceutical supply chain issues include long transportation distances, low transparency of inventory levels and cargo theft. Additionally, real-time access to data is also available to patients to go through their clinical trials, as well as sponsors, which reduces the cost of trials.

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How one pharma “family business” places patients first

pharmaphorum

And just as a family business thrives on its connection to the community, Chiesi is committed to connecting to the global patient community. We try to have a very long-term orientation because we believe that aligns our objectives very well with the objectives of society and the patients we serve, and it makes us a stable business.”.

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Embedding the Patient Point of View in Everything You Do

PM360

The term “patient centricity” has been around for over a decade, and since its first utterance the buzzword has been praised, dissected, criticized, and everything in between. The concept has always been worthwhile, but people within and outside of the industry have wondered whether the industry was truly becoming more patient centric?