Posts Tagged ‘pharmaceutical’

  Last year, I wrote about Proteus, the company behind the FDA-cleared ingestible sensor that helps monitor patients’ adherence to medication. At that time, the company was running clinical trials in the US, whereas in 2012, the company’s platform was already deployed in the UK. 

  If there’s one company that believes in the digital health revolution, it’s LEO Pharma. According to news sources and a press release from the Denmark-based company, last year LEO Pharma invested $3.4M in SkinVision, the developer of a mobile app that helps detect melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer. Simply snap a picture […]

  Most digital transformation initiatives begin with customer journey mapping, a process that helps fully understand the dynamics of your target customer and their behavior. Journey mapping connects the dots from your customer’s initial interaction with your brand, through their entire experience with your brand via multiple channels (e.g., website, mobile app, phone call, direct […]

  Outside of work, it’s obvious that we have become a digital society. We use mobile devices to guide us through rush hour traffic, to find a great new spot for lunch, to research recipes for dinner, to do our shopping, to track our exercise, to entertain our children (and ourselves!), to connect with friends […]

  According to Dr. Stephen M. Ostroff, FDA Acting Commissioner, and Dr. John K. Jenkins, Director of the Office of New Drugs in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, over 40 novel drugs were approved in 2015. The FDA’s website indicates the exact number as 45, which is slightly higher than the previous year and […]

  On December 17, 2015, the FDA issued a warning letter to Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. in Gujarat, India. Sun Pharma’s website boasts that it is the “World’s 5th Largest Specialty Generic Pharmaceutical Company” with over 2,000 products in more than 150 markets across the globe. When an organization that large winds up with a […]

  Everyone loves lists, so here’s another to add to this year’s collection. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the most prestigious management consulting firms, released the results of its 10th annual global survey on the state of innovation. 

  In an article from Clinical Leader, Chief Editor, Ed Miseta, and Bayer Healthcare’s VP Global Strategy & Development Advisor, Johann Proeve, discuss using electronic health record (EHR) and electronic data capture (EDC) systems to lower the overall costs of running clinical trials. 

  Gordon Ritter, co-founder and general partner of Emergence Capital, wrote an article in TechCrunch the day after Thanksgiving in which he spoke about the prowess of “industry cloud companies” – companies that develop software for specific verticals. “These companies might not be well-known outside specific industries, but ask anyone within an industry vertical and […]

  ZS Associates, a global company that offers sales and marketing solutions to a variety of industries, has released its 2015 annual report, which takes a comprehensive look at how pharmaceutical companies are marketing to physicians. 

  We recently discussed how Oracle’s safety system has the ability to produce ad hoc descriptive statistical reports on quality data. This brings us to the last rule we’ll discuss in our “Argus Safety for CAPAs” blog series. 

  For several years, the FDA has been the center of scrutiny for not having an official social media policy available on its website. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, the FDA was the only one of 17 government agencies not to have social media policy…until now.