According to the Salesforce “2017 Connected Patient Report,” three in five Americans are open to virtual support service options (e.g., video conference calls) with pharmaceutical companies to help them understand medications. This is especially true with millennials, as 70% want […]
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Project management software used to be static flowcharts of activities and team responsibilities, updated periodically, and for many business tasks, it remains that way. But the more modern approach, seen in some customer relationship management (CRM) systems or so-called “human […]
Read MoreApparently, the paint is still drying on a new, web-based software offering from Unisys Corp., but the product bids to provide some sorely needed networking and communication capability to the vendors and trading partners that constitute most pharma companies’ supply […]
Read MoreThe life sciences community has always been more conservative when it comes to the adoption of new technologies, and cloud-based systems are no exception. This cautious approach to shiny new technology objects is more than appropriate given the high stakes […]
Read MoreBuilding on a series of polling and surveying capabilities included in its social media network, Sermo is now enabling a Drug Ratings platform. According to the company, physicians have been able to crowdsource patient cases and seek advice from each […]
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At its annual US Commercial Cloud user conference (Philadelphia, May 8-10) Veeva Systems took the wraps off a new extension of its flagship customer relationship-management (CRM) software: MyInsights. The software enables data drawn from data stored in Veeva CRM (or […]
Read MoreCapitalizing on the 500+ clients of its Product Track software, TraceLink has unveiled a Network Product Master Data Service, to collect and organize data necessary for compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). By itself, this is not […]
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For those pharma and drug-distribution managers deep in the details of compliance with the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act, the problem of identifying which drugs have which barcodes has been a looming worry. DSCSA, passed in 2013, sets up […]
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QuintilesIMS, the dominant force in commercial data for life sciences, as well as a major player in clinical research (through the recent merger of IMS Health and the Quintiles CRO), has struck a five-year agreement with Salesforce to employ the […]
Read MoreFor several years, Veeva Systems, which started as a supplier of cloud-based salesforce automation tools, has been building out a cloud-based offering for clinical research in life sciences. Now, that Vault Clinical Suite is expanding to include Vault SiteExchange, enabling […]
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