Nine months. In March 2020, the United States was in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. We shut the entire country down and ground the economy to a halt in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. […]
Read MoreA recent report by Deloitte projects that the artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery market will grow 53% by 2025, citing the increased investment of labs in AI as a way to boost research but also to collect, analyze, and produce […]
Read MoreWelcome to the first issue of Pharmaceutical Commerce under new ownership. As announced, MJH Life Sciences acquired the multimedia platform in July, after 15 years of careful stewardship by founder Nick Basta. In handing over the keys, Nick mentioned in […]
Read MoreHello readers! The editorials that have run on this page in every issue of Pharmaceutical Commerce usually are cast as words from on high; this time it’s a little more personal. After 15 years, I’m giving up the editorship of […]
Read MoreValue- or outcomes-based contracting is the buzz of the moment in specialty pharmaceutical marketing. Interest in it is driven by the (typically) high cost of the therapies, and payers’ desire to ensure that they’re getting something for the money expended, […]
Read MoreIn the mid-2000s, when Pharmaceutical Commerce was founded, the editors and writers spent a lot of time talking about how state-of-the-art computing and data analysis would revolutionize medicine. The thought was that as more patient data was collected and analyzed […]
Read MoreA couple years ago, all the chatter about meeting the requirements of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) in the US, and the Falsified Medicines Directive in the EU, was getting manufacturers onboard with putting serial codes on their […]
Read MoreWelcome to our 5th annual report on patient support / hub services. Pharmaceutical Commerce has been highlighting this part of the life-sciences service universe for two reasons: one trivial and one profound. The trivial reason is that the topic fits […]
Read MoreAfter all the arguing over drug prices, the cost of healthcare and many of the related disputes, most Americans take comfort from the fact that the nation as a whole is getting healthier and living longer. But—at this time—that is […]
Read MoreA good way to get vendors involved in pharma cold-chain services and equipment looking sideways is to ask them to provide the data they collect during shipments and deliveries. In the frictionless, IoT (Internet of Things) world we are entering, […]
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