It is commonplace for physicians and other prescribers to visit pharma company websites for drug information; it is also commonplace for pharma companies to connect with physicians for both promotional messages and more critical communications such as recall notices. Much […]
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When the Drug Supply Chain Security Act was passed in 2013, many of its details were hammed out in close collaboration with actors in the pharma supply chain—manufacturers, wholesalers, retail pharmacy and others. Given that the law’s implementation has an […]
Read MoreThere are multiple CRM solutions for managing salesforce activity in life sciences, but two of the dominant players are Veeva CRM, and the Mobile Intelligence solution that started with a company called Dendrite, and now through multiple acquisitions and mergers […]
Read MoreTraceLink, the North Reading, MA, IT vendor that has carved out a leadership position in the software necessary for life sciences companies to meet the requirements of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), has had a third round of […]
Read MoreIt’s not widely recognized inside the pharma industry, but the product identification and tracking procedures promulgated by the GS1 organization—and which have been accepted by FDA as an appropriate system for implementing the goals of the Drug Supply Chain Security […]
Read MoreThere are two reasons for the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA) to spend most of the past year on testing how returned product that is saleable will be handled in a future, fully tracked system of serialized products: after getting ready […]
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In conjunction with its annual Traceability Seminar (Washington, DC; Nov. 10-11) the Healthcare Distribution Alliance unveiled a fairly rigorous, third-party-managed survey of drug suppliers impacted by the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which, as part of a 10-year timetable, […]
Read MoreAn unusual pairing of capabilities has been announced by Havas Health, part of the global communications agency Havas Group, and Vencore, a US-based IT vendor. The joint venture, HVH Patient Precision Analytics, is targeting the problem of identifying undiagnosed rare-disease […]
Read MoreTwo Philadelphia-area firms, IntegriChain and ProMetrics, are combining their capabilities in channel data management and de-identified patient data from (mostly) specialty pharmacies to provide what they are calling “guided analytics” that runs from the specialty pharma manufacturer to the patient. […]
Read MoreMuch of the furious strategizing and implementation of the traceability requirements of the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) has been oriented around the needs of manufacturers and wholesalers, who are currently required to share data on shipments. Retail […]
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