Startup (and upstart) digital companies like to toss around catchphrases like “disruptive technology” and “disintermediation,” and maybe Hu-manity.co will become one. For now, the company is aggressively building out a fullscale, multinational platform, even before opening its doors for business. […]
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For over a year, a growing number of efforts have been undertaken to pilot a blockchain-based network for managing pharma serialization and traceability. It is public knowledge, for example, that AmerisourceBergen has been working with Merck, and McKesson with Pfizer; […]
Read MoreWith omnichannel communications being the preferred approach for connections between pharma sales and marketing workers and healthcare providers (HCPs), it makes sense to include the creation, review and dissemination of that information in pharma customer relationship management (CRM). Now, as […]
Read MoreIn 2016, a stunning $8 to $12 billion was invested in artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new report by McKinsey.[1] The report also stated that healthcare is one of three industries seeing the greatest profit margin increases as a […]
Read MoreWith the US and EU about to implement the next stage of their ‘track and trace’ legislation to combat illegal drugs in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Whether illegally diverted from the supply chain through theft or introduced into the supply […]
Read MoreThe modernization of the US drug supply chain is now halfway through the timeline set by the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA): it’s been five years since the law was passed, and in five years (if all goes according […]
Read MoreA data warehouse is commonly understood to be a way to store structured data—for example, sales reports—in a way that makes retrieval or performing analytics faster and easier. Inevitably, once a warehouse is built, some other department or business function […]
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While the focus of laggard pharma packagers these days is to get their packaging lines into conformance with the looming November 2018 deadline for having barcoded, item-level serialization of products, companies that have already completed their packaging-line work are now […]
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Blockchain or, more formally, distributed ledger technology (DLT), continues to bubble through both financial-services and business-data applications across a wide swatch of industries, even though its underlying foundation remains sketchy. In about-to-be-published data, Accenture finds that upwards of 64% of […]
Read MoreAlthough there are standards crisscrossing clinical studies from how data are collected to how they are to be reported to FDA for drug approvals, there is still a lot left to the discretion of study sponsors and the clinical research […]
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