If you haven’t been living under a rock (or aren’t my parents), you are probably aware of the rise in popularity of voice search and voice enabled devices. Thanks to technology like Google Assistant, iOS Siri, and Amazon Echo, voice search is exploding in terms of both adoption and technology integration. A comScore study in […]
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Healthcare: Repeal Now, Replace Later?
Earlier today, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse sent a letter to President Trump urging him to separate the actions of repealing and replacing healthcare, rather than doing them simultaneously, if there is still no resolution by July 10th. Since not enough progress has been made on healthcare, during an appearance on Fox & Friends this morning the Republican […]
PatientPoint Raises $140 Million in Capital to Fuel Its Digital POC Growth
PatientPoint announced this week that it received $140 million in capital from private investment firms, allowing for significant digital growth in its point of care networks. Serving as a strategic advisor, the Peter J. Solomon Company secured the financing from Searchlight Capital Partners and Silver Point Capital. A leader in patient education and engagement programs […]
The Impact of Behavioral Coaching on Adherence
The concept of coaching is pervasive in today’s culture with many popular forms: life coach, fitness coach, personal coach, wellness coach, and behavioral coach. Regardless of the topic, coaches help us to take the next step towards achieving our goals. But understanding the purpose behind behavioral coaching is particularly important as we seek to meet […]
How Empowered Nurses are Changing the Pharma Industry
Nurses today are in an optimal position to help pharmaceutical companies. According to the American Nurses Association, nursing professionals have high levels of trust in terms of consumer perception for the past 15 years, and nursing reliability and expertise is recognized within the healthcare profession. Yet the critical functions of nurses within the pharmaceutical industry […]
The Right Time and Right Place for Print
Sponsored Content As patient centricity continues to become the industry priority, the need to get the right information to the right patients at the right time in the right format is more important than ever—especially for pharma. Our recent white paper touched on the disconnect patients feel with pharma companies. Today, only 9% of patients […]
Five Strategies for Pharma Engagement on Social Media
Here’s the big question: How does an industry with regulatory constraints around how it communicates with the public successfully engage on social media through robust, timely, and helpful interactions? There’s not a simple answer, but creating clear and consistent “rules of engagement” can make for a good first step forward. As a digital and social […]
The Right Moment to Take Your Brand to the Man
Sponsored Content In light of the upcoming Men’s Health Month in June, I thought it relevant to talk about one of the biggest challenges pharma marketers have come to PatientPoint for help with: how to engage men and get them talking about their health. While George Clooney has always been my ideal target, for pharma […]
Overcoming Communication Obstacles to Patient Engagement and Adherence
While the primary focus of patient adherence programs today has shifted from the product to the patient, the communication barriers that hinder patient interaction and engagement are still common. Many of these barriers can be overcome by investigating and addressing the root causes of issues, which often occur in either the basic program design […]
Rules of the Code
Should Pharma Site Metadata Play by the Same Rules as Paid Search Ads? This is the second entry in the series about “promotional peccadilloes” available on Convergence Point Media’s Insights blog – topics that often trigger a perceived conflict between good regulatory compliance and effective marketing, and our perspectives on best practices to address them. The […]