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INNOVARA DIGEST – PHARMACEUTICAL DTC ADS : THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE WEIRD

It has been over 20 years since the US Food and Drug Administration began allowing pharmaceutical companies to advertise their products on television. In that time, the controversy surrounding direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising has created quite a stir. Even so, USA Today reports that spending for pharmaceutical DTC ads

INNOVARA DIGEST: NIPPING DISEASE IN THE BUD–DEVELOPMENTS IN PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS

What if we could use data analytics to discover and treat disease before it even begins? Late last week, Humana and Amgen announced a partnership to accomplish just that: Researchers would using RWE and data from wearable decides to develop algorithms predicting patient risk, with the goal of

INNOVARA DIGEST: 5 USEFUL APPLICATIONS OF AR IN HEALTHCARE

Augmented reality has the potential to dramatically improve every aspect of healthcare, including diagnosis, treatment, training, and patient engagement. AR technologies can enhance quality of care by reducing cost and risk while improve accuracy and efficiency. In this week’s Innovara Digest, we looked at 5 of our favorite

INNOVARA DIGEST: R&D PARTNERSHIPS – THE NEW NORM

Back in 2009, Pwc’s Pharma 2020 report, Challenging Business Models, predicted that by 2020, pharmaceutical companies would no longer be able to remain competitive by keeping all R&D in-house. Pwc believed that all pharmaceutical companies would need to collaborate with a number of organizations in order to reduce

INNOVARA DIGEST: ENGAGING WITH MILLENNIAL PATIENTS

Globally, there are over 2 billion people between the ages of 18 and 34, the range defined by Pew and others as the Millennial generation. Millennials are the largest generation in the US Labor Force and are taking over as the primary caregivers and healthcare decision-makers for their

INNOVARA DIGEST: OUR FAVORITE MEDICAL APPS FOR PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS

According to the 2016 Physicians Practice Technology Survey, 45.4% of physicians use smartphone apps on the job. A 2015 PwC survey stated that one in three consumers have at least one health app on their phones. Here are just a few of the medical apps on the market

INNOVARA DIGEST: HOW THE MARRIAGE OF DATA ANALYTICS AND AI WILL TRANSFORM HEALTHCARE

As healthcare providers struggle to meet changing patient demands while keeping costs down, the usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is becoming ever more apparent. Personal health assistants such as Healthily and Babylon Health, that base their diagnoses and advice on aggregated data, have made their way

INNOVARA DIGEST: 3 STRATEGIES FOR BETTER PATIENT ENGAGEMENT

Innovara is proud to announce the Innovara Digest. Each week, we will share a compilation of timely analyses and opinion pieces of interest to marketing, medical affairs, sales and other managers from pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotech, healthcare IT, and life sciences industries.

ADVANCED STRATEGIC MARKETING ARTICLE REVIEW: WHEN MARKETING IS STRATEGY

In the Harvard Business Review article, When Marketing is Strategy, author Professor Niraj Dawar makes the case for moving marketing strategy downstream towards the customers.

ADVANCED STRATEGIC MARKETING ARTICLE REVIEW: THE NEW METRICS OF MARKET SUCCESS

In his article, The New Metrics of Market Success, Mason Tenaglia is calling for the application of new market metrics in order for pharmaceutical companies to “align their strategies around the push for greater profitability, putting them on the right track for growth – right to the end