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    Letter from the Editor

    In 2014, PharmaVOICE began highlighting — through a regular feature called the Innovator’s Corner — the innovations being developed throughout the life-sciences industry. We went looking for projects — spanning new therapies, new drug research avenues, new devices, and new technology — that are g...

    By Taren Grom • April 1, 2015
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    What's New

    Next20 Launched as Healthcare Thought Partnership Firm Trending now: Senior pharmaceutical industry executives establish new company and business model. Three highly experienced pharmaceutical and healthcare industry executives have formed next20, a new “thought partnership," which provides strat...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    The Network

    Walgreens and PatientsLikeMe Bring Drug Information to Consumers Trending now:  Technology-enabled consumer health engagement is on the rise. Walgreens and PatientsLikeMe Walgreens is adding data from PatientsLikeMe to its online health dashboard, giving patients a view of possible medication sid...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    Pharma Trax

    Venture Funding Trends Trending now: Report shows an increase in funding for rare diseases and a decrease in funding for chronic diseases. Seventy-eight percent of U.S. venture investment for therapeutics went toward novel drug R&D, suggesting innovation is a core priority for venture investo...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    On the Calendar

    Coming Attractions The Frontend of Innovation (FEI) conference, May 18-20, 2015, in Boston is positioned to showcase the new breed of innovation leaders. Content will address how to truly generate momentum for the next generation of innovation culture leaders, business models, and structures and ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    Talent Pool

    Biotechnology Pool Mary Thistle Dimension Names Chief Business Officer Dimension Therapeutics, a rare disease company advancing novel treatments for diverse genetic disorders of the liver based upon an AAV gene therapy platform, has appointed Mary Thistle to the newly created position of chief bu...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    Celebrating Innovation: Innovative Companies

    in•no•va•tion the action or process of innovating. • a new method, idea, product, etc. When this special issue was conceived, the idea was to shine a light on the innovators and innovations that are changing the life-sciences industry. We issued a call to action to our readers to identify the com...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    Innovations: Apps and Websites

    App Screens for Early Vision Loss GoCheckKids Screens Children Younger than 5 Years Pediatricians now have a new way to screen for amblyopia, a leading cause of vision loss in children. Gobiquity Mobile Health’s GoCheck Kids is the first pediatric vision screener app designed to facilitate early ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    Innovations: Drug Therapies

    First and Only Vaccine Approved for Meningitis Pfizer’s Trumenba a Key Public Health Advance A serious and life-threatening disease can now be prevented with the first and only  FDA-approved vaccine in its class. Pfizer’s Trumenba Meningococcal Group B Vaccine was granted accelerated approval by ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    Innovations: Processes

    TMF Management: Beyond the Technology Paragon Brings 360-View to Electronic Master File Management Paragon has developed a new holistic approach to TMF allowing for perpetual inspection readiness: metaTMF. This method defines the content and data required for continual inspection readiness, align...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    Innovations: Platforms

    Creating Custom Multichannel Customer Engagement Cegedim’s Hub Helps Sales Reps Simplify Complex Digital Mix In these challenging times of shrinking prescriber access, pharmaceutical marketers need to determine a meaningful digital channel mix to engage their customers right out of the gate. Cege...

    By PharmaVoice Team • April 1, 2015
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    Letter from the Editor

    Can We Be Too Connected? Move over George Jetson. The next best thing to flying cars, but not quite as good as his foldable briefcase-sized car, is here. With the push of a button on our smartphones, we can wirelessly program almost everything in our lives, from programming the lights, heat, and...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015
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    UpFront

    Industry at Large Lilly Supports Cancer Care in Kenya Lilly has committed $1 million to AMPATH (Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare) in Eldoret, Kenya. The funding, provided by the Lilly Foundation, will help equip a new oncology center, hire additional staff, and train local healthcar...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015
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    What's New

    Launch of Revolution Medicines Marks New Pharma Model Trending now: Natural products for serious infections and non-infectious diseases is focus of new healthcare company. Revolution Medicines Inc., with an infusion of $45 million in Series A financing, is looking to discover and develop new ther...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015
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    The Network

    Global Report Reveals Almost 42% of the World’s Population Has Access to the Internet Trending Now: Survey says global Internet, social media, and mobile usage to increase in 2015. London-based global social media agency We Are Social’s report covers Internet, social media, and mobile usage stati...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015
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    Tools of the Trade

    BuzzeoPDMA Partners with Invistics to Offer Solutions For Inventory and Sample Distribution Trending Now: End-to-end solution optimizes supply chain management and enhances compliance with DEA and FDA regulations. BuzzeoPDMA, a Cegedim company, has formed a strategic partnership with Invistics, a...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015
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    Pharma Trax

    Putting the “e" in Patient-Reported Outcomes Trending now: Electronic data collection improves data quality, shortens study timelines, and increases the likelihood of regulatory approval. Although transitioning from a pen-and-paper strategy to an electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) approac...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015
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    On the Calendar

    Coming Attractions Denice Torres, president of McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson company, has been named the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association’s 2015 Woman of the Year (WOTY). She will be honored at the 26th Woman of the Year event at the New York Hilton Midtown on Thursday...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015
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    Talent Pool

    Biotechnology Pool Tony Hunt Repligen Names CEO Repligen, a life-sciences company focused on the development and commercialization of high-value consumable products used in the process of manufacturing biological drugs, has appointed Tony Hunt as CEO. Mr. Hunt, currently Repligen’s chief operatin...

    By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2015
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    Last Word

    Engaging Patients Through Social Media Siva Nadarajah, General Manager of Social Media, IMS Health, talks about how pharma companies can be successful in social media. PV: Why is social media important for pharmaceutical companies? Nadarajah: Social media can provide a great lens into sentiment, ...

    By Siva Nadarajah • March 1, 2015
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    The Internet of Things: Beyond Hype and Into Reality

    Still high from the excitement of the hundreds of innovative and extreme IoT gadgets featured at the International Consumer Electronic show held in Las Vegas every year, healthcare thought leaders are buzzing with the plethora of healthcare opportunities presented by biosensing technology and rem...

    By Robin Robinson • March 1, 2015
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    The Wearables Craze

    The coolest thing about wearable devices used for tracking biometric data is not what they are today, but what they will be in the future. Wearables, now used by about 20% of the population, are predicted to become as second nature to consumers as mobile phones, providing seamless and valuable in...

    By Robin Robinson • March 1, 2015
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    Closed Formularies Making A Comeback

    Pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) over the last few years have been reverting to a once-common practice of closed formularies and formulary exclusions. This is happening, PBM leaders say, for a number of reasons, including the growing number of new and high-cost specialty products, cost increases a...

    By Denise Myshko • March 1, 2015
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    Cancer: Understanding The Patient Journey

    Industry leaders talk often about being focused on patients, developing outcomes-based solutions, providing value to patients, and developing personalized and precision medicine. But what does it mean to be patient-centric in the pharmaceutical industry? Is it patient engagement? Is it addressing...

    By Denise Myshko • March 1, 2015
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    Venezuela: Finding Opportunities Among the Challenges

    Venezuela, officially known as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is one of the most urbanized countries in South America. The vast majority of its population — about 30 million people — live in cities in the north, particularly in the capital Caracas. Best known for its vast oil industry, Ven...

    By Kim Ribbink • March 1, 2015