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    HealthTech

    Biogen to Launch Pioneering Study to Develop Digital Biomarkers of Cognitive Health Using Apple Watch and iPhone Trend Watch: Google, Microsoft, Apple Watch, Azure Becoming Major Players in HealthTech Biogen has initiated a new virtual research study, in collaboration with Apple, to investigate t...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021
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    Artificial Intelligence

    90% of Large Pharma Initiated AI/ML Projects In 2020 Trend Watch: AI Use Grows in Drug Research, Development, Analysis, and Diagnosis Trinity Life Sciences is sharing findings from its latest TGaS Landscape report entitled “Perspectives on Use of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AIML) fo...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021
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    Patient Power: Personal Journeys of Courage

    The power of patients is palpable, powerful, and pervasive. Patient-centricty has evolved into patient engagement. The distinction, while subtle, is also palpable, powerful, and pervasive. Engagement requires active participation. Rather than being passively placed in the center of vague initiati...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021
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    Unflagging Courage — Dana Deighton

    As both a caregiver and a patient, I’ve had lots of on-the-job training. It started when I was 32, with young kids, my mom (who was an RN) was diagnosed at age 61 with stage four colon cancer. She only lived for another six weeks and those six weeks were fraught with gut-wrenching pain, smells th...

    By Dana Deighton • March 1, 2021
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    Advocacy Cheerleader — Barby Ingle

    I have been battling chronic pain since 1997. First with endometriosis, which resulted in a full hysterectomy and left oophorectomy. Then in 2002, I developed Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), which is also known as Central Pain Syndrome. This is a progressive neuro-autoimmune condition that af...

    By Barby Ingle • March 1, 2021
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    The Patient Knows Best

    The patient voice is crucial throughout the entire healthcare process, but especially relevant in creating spot-on patient education. Shantana Hazel, Wayne Eskridge, and Lisa Lurie are just three of thousands of patient activists who have used their own patient journey and experiences to create i...

    By Robin Robinson • March 1, 2021
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    Education is Key — Daniel Garza

    I remember being at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston. Texas. September 2000, I think it was Tuesday the 26th. I had been in the hospital over the weekend, weighed about 110 lbs. with a T-cell count of 108, and the diagnosis was AIDS. I had been in an isolated room, with only my mother, father, and si...

    By Daniel Garza • March 1, 2021
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    Virtual Patient Care: Starting to Shine

    Virtual patient care has moved from healthcare’s bit player to co-star, and it won’t be giving up that role anytime soon. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States last year, healthcare organizations that had been slow to embrace a virtual health model suddenly began implementing vi...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021
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    A Family Affair — Estela Lugo

    I wish I could say there was a time in my life when I felt “normal," but there really isn’t. Some of my first memories include sitting on the number rug in kindergarten and showing off my new plastic leg braces to friends. It was 1984 when doctors at Nassau County Medical Center in New York broke...

    By Estela Lugo • March 1, 2021
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    Decentralized Clinical Trials: The Way Forward

    COVID-19 prompted the need for the industry to address patient needs in the clinical trial space, and companies along the drug development paradigm pivoted successfully to the benefit of patients. Necessity is the mother of invention, and over the past 12 to 18 months because of the limitations n...

    By Taren Grom • March 1, 2021
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    Becoming a Patient Partner — Claire Snyman

    May 14, 2010. I woke up to the room spinning. That day is forever etched in my mind. Firstly, because of the unfamiliar, sickening vertigo that rippled through my body, rendering me helpless. Secondly, because this symptom led to a cascade of events that four days later landed me in the ER diagno...

    By Calire Snyman • March 1, 2021
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    Patient Heroes

    Patient heroes have the power to positively change the status quo because of their influence, knowledge, passion, and commitment to improving the patient journey. The global patient engagement solutions market size is expected to reach $70.5 billion by 2028, according to a new report by Grand Vie...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021
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    Advocate For Changes That Protect Patients — Molly Stallings

    My mission is to create the best patient experience possible — from product development through program execution, each department plays a unique role in contributing to a patient’s overall experience. The consumerization of healthcare combined with the disruptive power of mobile technology prese...

    By Molly Stallings • March 1, 2021
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    Mission: Disrupt Health Disparities — Dr. Altovise Ewing

    I envision a future of healthcare where genetics is used to advance health equity. I deem this a critical and possible mission, and believe our work at Genentech is a step in the right direction to getting us there. Dr. Altovise Ewing’s passion for health equity is personal. As a Black woman rais...

    By Altovise T. Ewing • March 1, 2021
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    SHOWCASE: Real-World Evidence: Realizing the Benefits of RWE

    The real-world evidence (RWE) market has grown significantly in recent years, supported by a favorable regulatory environment. Increasingly, companies recognize that real-world evidence (RWE) presents an opportunity to improve efficiency and innovation. One of the biggest challenges for pharma co...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021
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    Commanders & Chiefs: Chief Patient Officers

    More and more companies are elevating patient-facing roles to the C-Suite, as a result, these key roles continue to expand and evolve to address the goals of patient-centricity and patient engagement. Dr. Julie Gerberding Merck Respecting Voices Across the Spectrum of Advocacy The concept of pati...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021
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    Executive Perspective: A Learning Model: A Deployment Strategy for the Future

    Throughout her 20-year-plus career, Jaime Thompson has become an expert in driving client launches and brand success through commercial and medical channels. Her deep analytical expertise provides customers with innovative ways to execute on their brand strategies — from the first launch of an or...

    By Jaime Thompson • March 1, 2021
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    Letter from the Editor

    Celebrating firsts… Last month we witnessed Kamala Harris sworn in as the first woman, Black, and South Asian American as the 49th Vice President of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina to be named to the bench and just the third woman to be named to the hi...

    By Taren Grom • Feb. 1, 2021
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    Upfront

    Ogilvy Captures Response in Historic Swearing In Ogilvy captured girls across the country at the moment that Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman, Black, and South Asian American as the 49th Vice President of the United States. Girl Up changemakers can be seen in the video watching this ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2021
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    HealthTech

    Heat Monitoring Systems Could Help COVID-19 Diagnosis Trend Watch: Wearables Contribute to Identifying COVID-19 A smart ring, being developed by Oura, that generates continuous temperature data may foreshadow COVID-19, even in cases when infection is not suspected. The device, which may be a bett...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2021
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    Artificial Intelligence

    Google DeepMind’s Protein Folding Algorithms Solve Structures Faster Than Ever Trend Watch: From Predicting COVID Patient Outcomes to Protein Structures, AI An AI network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of biology’s grandest challenges — determi...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2021
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    Healthcare Investment Trends

    Global healthcare funding hit a new record in 2020: a total of $80.6 billion in equity funding was raised across more than 5,500 deals, according to CB Insights. North America, Asia, and Europe all saw a boost in funding year-over-year. There were 187 healthcare mega-rounds ($100M+) in 2020 — a n...

    By Kim Ribbink and Taren Grom • Feb. 1, 2021
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    Cutting Through the Noise

    COVID-19 has complicated the marketing environment, and experts suggest ways to stand out in an ever-changing climate. The effects of COVID-19 have given a good shake to an already ever-changing marketing landscape, and for pharma marketers it is more difficult than ever to cut through the resoun...

    By Robin Robinson • Feb. 1, 2021
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    SHOWCASE: Rare Disease: Tackling the Barriers to Rare Disease Treatments

    Efforts to address the approximately 7,000 rare diseases worldwide have intensified as life-sciences companies increasingly turn their attention to these conditions. According to some analysts reports, orphan drugs could account for one-fifth of global prescription sales by 2024. This increase in...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Feb. 1, 2021
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    Five Recommendations to Make Trials More Child-Centric

    Increasing Engagement of the Pediatric Population. Rare disease research is an increasingly competitive sector of the clinical research landscape. While rare diseases individually affect a relatively small number of patients, as a category these diseases affect millions of people – and half of th...

    By Robin Burges • Feb. 1, 2021