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A Strong Patient Support Partnership: Balancing Technology + Talent
Improve Efficiency and Enhance Patient-Centricity Technology is growing at a fast clip in patient service hubs. Completing information online is the norm for tech-savvy patients, with automation providing speed and cost reduction. At the same time, patients require personal support to access, und...
By Karl Raabe • Nov. 15, 2021 -
The Rise of the Virtual Rep
For more than three decades, detailing has been one of the cornerstones of the pharmaceutical industry’s communications with physicians. Thanks to recent advances in technology, what started out as face-to-face meetings between pharmaceutical sales representatives and physicians has evolved into ...
By Ralph Greene • Nov. 15, 2021 -
Explore the Trendline➔
Stock via Getty ImagesTrendlineClinical trial diversity
As pharma wises up to the fact that the current playbook for improving clinical trial diversity has yet to make a meaningful impact, the quest is on to refine that approach.
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Engaging Patients and Providers in A Digital World Utilizing Virtual Assistants and In-Workflow Services
It’s evident within our healthcare system just how challenging it can be for patients to receive information and status updates regarding their care. Portals, apps, and websites all pose challenges for patients: remembering logins, potentially missing or incomplete data, and the inability to keep...
By Ron Lacy • Nov. 15, 2021 -
Opinion
Executive Perspective: Data For Better Health Outcomes: A Conversation with Clark Wooten and Anthony Passarelli
The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to disrupt the healthcare market across all sectors, and the digital health segment is no exception. But in this case, there has been a positive boost. According to Global Market Insights, the digital health market exceeded $141.8 billion in 2020 and is estimat...
By Clark Wooten • Nov. 15, 2021 -
SHOWCASE: Patient Engagement: Digital Control: Putting Solutions Into the Hands of Patients
Patient engagement solutions are key to clinician-patient interaction, improving compliance, enabling real-time reporting, and reducing visits to the doctor and hospital. Patients today want and expect to have greater control over their healthcare journey. They are accustomed to accessing informa...
By PharmaVoice Team • Oct. 1, 2021 -
Bridging the Patient Support Gap With Integrated Technology Solutions and Strategies
Each year, medication non-adherence causes 125,000 preventable deaths and $300 billion in avoidable healthcare costs. In a world where patients face more medication barriers than ever, patient support programs are critical in providing value-based care that yields a palpable and lasting impact. T...
By Maria Kirsch • Oct. 1, 2021 -
Social Health: Reinventing the Patient Journey
Welcome to the next generation of the patient journey. It’s a journey that’s no longer vaguely linear — patients are now benefiting from practically infinite human connections enabled and accelerated by digital communication. Those connections have transformed the patient journey from a path to a...
By Jack Barrette • Oct. 1, 2021 -
Three Steps to Innovate Patient Solutions
At the heart of all of our work is meeting patient needs, so let’s take a deep dive into all of the routes currently available to deliver patient solutions. The challenge is to balance the conversation between pragmatism and idealism. To call out the elephant in the room, there’s a big appetite f...
By Corina Kellam • Oct. 1, 2021 -
The Key Elements to a Successful and Sustainable Patient Engagement Strategy
There are three elements to a successful and sustainable patient engagement strategy: personalized, convenient, and data-driven. Pharma spends $20 billion a year in advertisements driving patients to the noninteractive CTA, “talk to a doctor." By incorporating these three elements, we can transfo...
By Chase Feiger • Oct. 1, 2021 -
Big Healthcare Drives a Better Patient Experience
Five ways real-world data adds value in the drug development and commercialization lifecycle. The drug development industry has access to vast stores of real-world data (RWD) that reflect the healthcare journeys of millions of patients across the globe. And the scale of these assets grows exponen...
By Mark Brown • Sept. 1, 2021 -
The Evolving Patient Journey
Traditional patient-support programs must adapt to the new normal Many elements of healthcare have changed since the onset of the pandemic, most of all patient behavior and the patient journey. The move to virtual health and telemedicine provides more opportunities to touch patients along all pha...
By Robin Robinson • Sept. 1, 2021 -
Profile
Patient Heroes
These visionary thinkers are driving innovation around scientific breakthroughs and new technologies on behalf of patients. Empathy. Action. Reflection. Sparking innovation by… having an experience-designer mindset Jena Daniels Title: VP, Patient Success Company: Medable Inc. ...
By PharmaVoice Team • Aug. 1, 2021 -
Seven Secrets to Patient Experience Breakthroughs
The principles of behavioral science can be used to keep participants engaged, adherent to the protocol, and proud of the contributions to curing disease. Consumer industries have invested millions in improving “customer experience" — how consumers feel or perceive every interaction with a compan...
By Kyle Hogan • June 1, 2021 -
Widening the Lens: From Patient Engagement to Community Engagement
To truly engage patients, we must incorporate their community support systems No patient travels through their health journey alone. To be patient-centric, and fully engage patients in clinical research, expanding our approach to be inclusive of the broader communities that support them is impera...
By Alycia James • June 1, 2021 -
Letter from the Editor
Password protected? How secure is your healthcare and other online data? Well, across the globe it’s clear that healthcare information continues to be fertile ground for cybercriminals. According to HIPAA Journal, there was a 40.63% increase in reported data breaches of 500 or more healthcare rec...
By Taren Grom • April 1, 2021 -
Letter from the Editor
Thank you… Our special Patient Voice issue is one of my favorite issues of the year. Now in its fourth year, this is our opportunity to shine a light on the people who are truly making a difference to the healthcare system. It’s their unwavering pursuit to change the status quo and improve the de...
By Taren Grom • March 1, 2021 -
Upfront
Lilly and Life for a Child Expand Partnership Lilly, Life for a Child, and Beyond Type 1 advance access to diabetes care in resource-limited countries. More than 1.8 million children and young adults under 25 years old have Type 1 diabetes, yet many don’t have access to the life-saving treatments...
By PharmaVoice Team • March 1, 2021 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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