After a lot of legal huffing and puffing over a “conspiracy” and a claim of $30 million in damages, TraceLink has withdrawn its antitrust lawsuit against the Healthcare Distribution Alliance, filed in October. In federal court, the litigation had only […]
Read MoreThe market for electronic health-record (EHR) systems, aka electronic medical records, remains fragmented and suffering complaints of poor interoperability among vendors; however, both of those conditions might change as one of the industry leaders, Allscripts, agrees to purchase Practice Fusion, […]
Read MoreIn a brief filed on December 29, the Healthcare Distribution Alliance contends that none of TraceLink’s claims of an “antitrust conspiracy” to control access to data arising from compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) have merit, and […]
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The SAFE-Bioppharma group, which has been promulgating standards and practices for cross-industry digital identity management since 2005, is merging into the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC), a similar nonprofit but one whose membership is deeper among healthcare […]
Read MoreAfter signaling its direction in a number of announcements in the past year—specifically a tight integration with Salesforce.com cloud-based platforms—IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS) has unveiled what it considers to be a new approach to IT systems for empowering pharma sales and […]
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The array of solution providers for compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) in the US, the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) in Europe, and similar regulatory drivers in some 40 countries around the world is shifting. In recent […]
Read MoreAt the beginning of this year, Pharmaceutical Commerce called 2017 “Year Zero” in the march toward end-to-end pharma traceability. The ostensible reason was that November 2017 was to be the date when effectively all new pharmaceutical packages entering US commercial […]
Read MoreAccenture has been offering a variety of software solutions, mostly for healthcare providers but with some overlap with meeting pharma industry needs, for several years; now it has targeted the patient support (hub) programs run specifically by pharma with the […]
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QPharma (Morristown, NJ) has been active in the pharma sales-operations support field for over two decades and has a client base of over 100 firms for such services as sample accountability, KOL management and master-data management of physicians. Last year, […]
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One of the great imponderables of the coming era of traceability of pharmaceutical shipments throughout the supply chain—the goal of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA)—is: who owns the data? Pharma manufacturers generate the serial numbers and other identifiers […]
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