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How long does onboarding a Medical Science Liaison (MSL) take? A week? 3 months? A year? Longer? What does a good MSL onboarding process look like? Since January 2017, Innovara has been assessing hundreds of MSLs around the globe, for free. We are comparing their level of experience,

Medical thought leaders (MTLs) are vital to advancing healthcare. You are most likely interested to know where and how they may be shaping a particular field of medicine. Equally important, you may aspire to get them interested in you. To do that, you’ll need to prepare to ask

All over the world, governments and healthcare systems are struggling to improve “value based care”. In the US, the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) has developed a set of metrics to better evaluate how well hospitals are doing, including Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and

In September 2016, women leaders in hepatitis convened for Women in High Places: Leading the Global Challenge of Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Control in New York City. Women in High Places (WIHP) is a network of global women leaders in medicine, academic research, government, industry, and consumer or

On July 27, Innovara and the Korean Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry Association (KRPIA) jointly hosted the Inaugural Meeting of Women in High Places: Leading the Global Challenge of Medicine (“WIHP”). The meeting opened by welcoming remarks by Oak Yeon Kim, President of KRPIA. Congresswoman Dr. InSook Park (Sanuri Party,

Barri Blauvelt, CEO of Innovara, and Kyung Hee Choi, VP of Asian Health Services at Holy Name Medical Center, have created quite a buzz recently with their collaboration on Patient Centered Cultural Intelligence, or PCCQ.

The rapid pace of innovation in technology is driving our personal and work lives faster and faster every day. There are many great advances, with new tools and solutions everywhere we turn. No matter how much technology and math you use, the “high tech” will eventually need to

The ways in which we are now able to gather and analyze such massive amounts of information are astounding. In this new world of big data, there is increasing buzz around the term focused analytics. This is where you take industry specific predictive models, and disparate data sources

Recently, a CEO of a start-up life-sciences company and I were reviewing the company’s branding strategy. I listened to him discuss his company and its first brand to be launched. I reviewed the company’s website and all the PowerPoint presentations and executive overview. Then I asked him a

We’ve all heard the term, “Upstream Marketing.” For years we have been assessing the understanding of this among healthcare marketing executives. I have come to realize recently that few really understand how it not only applies to disease, but also to healthcare marketing. Some think it is related