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Intouch Solutions Expands to East Coast

Monday, September 26th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_845" align="alignleft" width="99" caption="Jack Lipton, senior VP, client services"][/caption] Wendy Blackburn, the executive VP at Intouch Solutions, a pharma marketing agency, says agency officials have “high hopes” for Intouch’s recent expansion into New York City, especially given the agency’s 400 percent growth over the past three years. The new office, located ...

Digital marketing in pharma: more than just an ‘add-on’ to current strategy

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Bonin Bough, global director of digital and social media at PepsiCo and now one of the members of Pozen’s revolutionary Digital Advisory Board (DAB), has heard it often from a variety of people: they have better Internet browser versions at home than they do at work. “That’s crazy,” says Mr. Bough. ...

This too shall pass: Pozen’s new board aims to ease digital wariness

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

It turns out there is a lot the pharmaceutical advertising world can learn from outside the industry. In fact, at a time when many pharma companies are shying away from anything digital, Pozen has embraced the idea. Pozen has formed an unprecedented Digital Advisory Board (DAB) to identify untapped digital strategies ...

Cloud-based content management in the Veeva Vault

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Today at DIA’s EDM Conference, Veeva Systems officially became more than just a pharma CRM company with the launch of Veeva Vault, a cloud-based, regulated content management system designed specifically for the life sciences industry. Increasing collaboration, growing globalization, rapidly changing compliance requirements, and increasing cost pressures are all having an ...

Veeva’s iRep combines CRM and CLM on the iPad

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Apple is getting a lot of buzz today around Verizon’s announcement that it will begin carrying the iPhone. But don’t let that overshadow some other big news that happened today around Apple’s iPad that may prove to be of even greater importance for the pharmaceutical industry.  Known for its customer relationship ...

Sunovion rises as DSP consolidates U.S. footprint

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Having acquired Sepracor Inc. one year ago, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. has recently consolidated its U.S. footprint by integrating Sepracor with Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma America Inc. The newly combined organization has been given the new name Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. The roll-out of the Sunovion name coincides with the launch of ...

Election has implications for pharmaceutical marketing

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Washington is dealing with another case of whiplash following yesterday’s election results. To get a sense of what the new Republican control of the House of Representatives might mean for pharmaceutical marketing and advertising, I caught up with John Kamp, executive director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication. Earlier this year ...

A click away from Vimovo

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

VIMOVOtouchpoints, a new Website from AstraZeneca, provides physicians with a variety of helpful tools and information about Vimovo, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April 2010. Vimovo is a fixed-dose combination of delayed-release enteric-coated naproxen, which is a pain-relieving nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, and immediate-release esomeprazole, ...

Note to sales: make an appointment

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

This morning we received a pile of interesting survey data from one of our favorite data sources: the healthcare information and research company SK&A ("A Cegedim Company"). The topic: physicians' policies for interacting with pharma sales reps. Crucial conclusion for the eyes of pharma marketers: nearly half of the physicians surveyed ...

Celebrities and pharmaceuticals 101

Friday, August 13th, 2010

We get lots of press releases here, hundreds each day, and after a while many of them start to look the same. So imagine my surprise yesterday when this headline landed in my inbox: The Cure for the Common Celebrity Search:  Rx Entertainment New Agency Focused on the Healthcare Entertainment Marketing This ...