Pharma Marketing News Vol. 10, No. 5: 10 MARCH 2011
Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #5 (10 MARCH 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.
Pharma Marketing News Vol. 10, No. 13: 23 August 2011
Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #13 (23 AUGUST 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.
Mining Mobile Health App User Data: Liberating Health Data While Protecting Privacy
A conversation with Jacqueline Thong, co-founder and CEO of Ubiqi Health, about disease management mobile applications and how pharma marketers can leverage mobile health apps to engage with and learn from patients.
Pharma Facebook Pages Being Phased Out: A Good Run While It Lasted!
No doubt you've heard that as of August 15, 2011, Facebook opened up comments on ALL pharma pages with some exceptions. That means that the pharmaceutical industry will no longer be able to shut off comments on their Facebook pages.
Pharma Marketing News Vol. 10, No. 19: 21 December 2011
Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #19 (21 DECEMBER 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.
Getting Market Research Right in India & China
This is the last in a series of three articles highlighting points made by Kantar Health executives in a recent webinar titled, 'Getting It Right in the Emerging Markets: Identifying the opportunities and avoiding the pitfalls in conducting market research in new geographies.'
Citizen Petition Likely to Delay FDA Social Media Guidance
Allergan, Eli Lilly, Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, Pfizer, Novo, and Sanofi-Aventis filed a 'citizen petition' with the FDA, urging the agency to 'establish comprehensive, clear and binding regulations to guide the industry' in communicating off-label drug information to physicians and payers. Although the words 'Internet' and 'Social Media' are not mentioned in the petition, it is likely to hold up social media guidelines regarding 'unsolicited requests' that were promised as the first in a series of FDA guidelines.
Physicians Are Concerned About Pharma Support of CME, But Are Unwilling to Pay Their...
Talk about having your cake and eating it too! Commercial funding of continuing medical education (CME) and the potential for bias appear to concern many physicians, yet only a TINY MINORITY (7%) are willing to pay registration fees to eliminate or offset commercial funding sources, according to a report in the May 9, 2011, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Pharma YouTube Patient Videos Lack Transparency
Pharma social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube may lack patient-centered information and can also be sources of misleading information that could potentially do more harm than good.
Pharma Marketing News Vol. 10, No. 17: 10 November 2011
Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #17 (10 NOVEMBER 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.
