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 […]
Outcome Health’s Closes First-Ever Round of Funding at $5B Valuation
Outcome Health announced its first-ever round of funding closed at a $5B valuation pre-money from a group of investors, including Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Alphabet’s growth equity fund CapitalG, Leerink Transformation Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Balyasny Asset Management, and strategic healthcare stakeholders. According to the news release, the nearly $600 million raised during this round […]
Mesmerize Marketing Acquires Doctors’ Office Wallboards from Elite Sampling & Media Group
Mesmerize Marketing will increase their Healthy Living Network by more than 70% with the recent acquisition of Elite Sampling & Media Group’s national network of doctors’ office wallboards. The positions Mesmerize Marketing, a leader in patient education at the point of care (POC), as the “largest provider of static media in high prescribing physicians’ offices” reaching more […]
Understanding the DTC Shift in the Healthcare Industry
Feel that? That’s the seismic shift happening right now in the healthcare industry. Over the past twenty years, several distinct market trends have emerged across the healthcare landscape. Now, these trends have arrived – and they’re only gaining more traction. The Affordable Care Act facilitated many of these changes, including an influx of digitally savvy […]
PHARMA BRANDS: ARE YOU AN UBER OR A TAXI?
Sponsored Content “Don’t get Ubered” is a common phrase uttered in the tech world today. It’s referencing companies who don’t (or won’t) pay attention to the changes happening around them. As a result, they scramble for survival as more attuned companies see success by adapting their entire way of doing business. Put in that perspective, […]
From Coping to Confident
Specialty Drug Marketers Can Tap into Patient Stories Stories are ingrained in us from the time we are infants. The nighttime ritual of parents and children cozying up with a storybook or two is a genuine and enjoyable encounter, one with an underlying message or lesson that is served in a palatable way. Once we […]
DTC in Perspective: Thank You Mr. Pitts
No, the above is not a movie title. It is referring to an op-ed in the 4/17 Washington Examiner defending DTC by former FDA official Peter Pitts. The op-ed lays out the case why the attacks on DTC are flat out wrong or fake news as Mr. Pitts calls it in the title. Mr. Pitts […]