Commercial IT moves to the cloud
Five commercial trends to watch in 2017
Consultant pharmacists and long-term care 101
Resources for education about senior citizens and long-term care
Pharma execs meet with President Trump; job growth on the table
Trump suggests a ‘streamlined’ FDA will accelerate industry growth
Combine logistics temperature control with weather-based risk management
Q Products partners with RiskPulse, a meteorological forecaster
Supply chain is gobbling up more of pharmaceutical expenditures in the US
Brand manufacturers retain 47% of net expenditures for drugs
M&A up and down the pharma value chain
Thumbs up for J&J-Actelion; thumbs down for Aetna-Humana; Walgreens, McKesson actions
HDA Specialty Distribution 2016 report
More hospital, but fewer practitioner deliveries
Streamlining pharma-HCP communications with a common identity standard
Consortium led by Veeva will establish a non-proprietary identity and permission framework
EY Firepower report: Big Pharma well-positioned for 2017 M&A activity
Watch for Washington tax policy reform to affect 2017 business
Elapsed time from discovery to launch remains ‘stubbornly long,’ says QuintilesIMS study
Shorter elapsed time in recent years shows encouraging improvement
HHS issues a final rule on 340b policy details
Meanwhile, Congress strategizes repealing Obamacare, which expanded the 340b program
For 15th straight year, nurses top Gallup poll of most trusted professions
Healthcare providers occupy top three slots
Oops! ... FDA drug approvals slump badly in 2016
Only 20 new molecular entities passed muster this year, less than half of 2015’s total
Cold chain vendor looks to a global presence in 2017
Added locations—as well as new product offerings—from Pelican Biothermal
Medical associations, policy groups organize to fight counterfeit drugs and rogue online pharmacies
New consumer-education campaign led by Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies
Senators wrap up Turing-Valeant hearings on price gouging
A preamble for a next round of legislating drug pricing?
Walgreens-Rite Aid will sell 865 Rite Aid stores to Fred’s Pharmacy
Action is expected to meet FTC objections to the merged chains announced in 2015
TraceLink survey sees a more complex, less-unified approach to DSCSA
Just released survey details lack of consensus and difficulties with current requirements
CMS withdraws its proposed alternative payment models in pharmaceutical reimbursement
Back to square one in addressing high-cost-drug spending
More drug-pricing trouble: generic manufacturers are accused of price collusion
Connecticut leads 20 states suing an alleged ring led by Heritage Pharma
Lilly counters rising criticism of insulin drug prices with a PBM-driven, open-access discount
First branded-product discount program from Blink Health
Cold chain movement from the primary-distributor perspective
HDA’s latest Factbook tracks temperature-controlled distribution
Shifting healthcare dynamics needn’t be a bitter pill
2016 HDA Factbook: primary distributors handle 93.8% of US drug distribution
Higher productivity and more complexity; but slow takeup of traceability requirements
Life Science Logistics triples its Indianapolis warehouse space
Strong growth of existing clients and new product introductions are justification
QuintilesIMS drug spending outlook: $1.5 trillion in 2021, up 33%
Growth rates will moderate in the US and world
Pharma Serialization: First Experience, Best Practices, Future Direction
StayInFront expands its business-intelligence offering for life sciences SFA
Company offers to significantly undercut the pricing of sales force automation competitors
TraceLink gases its traceability tank with a $51.5-million investment
Goldman Sachs jumps in, takes a board seat
‘Site-less’ clinical trials become more feasible
Direct-to-patient trial supply and protocol management from Center Point
