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Optimizing Government Affairs & Public Policy Groups’ Structures & Operations

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Public Policy and Government Affairs functions within the pharmaceutical industry have become increasingly critical during this period of political, economic, and social turbulence. With both functions involved in essential areas such as legislative affairs, reimbursement, and regulatory, it’s important for

Best Practices in Structuring & Staffing Pharma Government Affairs’ Groups

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The Government Affairs and Public Policy functions play an important role in the Pharmaceutical industry. Both functions are involved in critical areas such as legislative affairs, reimbursement, and regulatory, making it essential for organizations to have not only appropriate staffing

Optimizing Medical Device Professional Medical Education Groups

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The landscape for delivering medical education on the safe and effective use of devices to healthcare professionals is a challenge that the medical device sector is increasingly being faced with. As the marketplace continues to change, it is becoming more

Medical Affairs Consortium: Winning Strategies for Successful Thought Leader Management

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In today’s extremely competitive and demanding healthcare landscape, pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device organizations heavily rely on thought leaders to influence the important decisions relevant to their products. Likewise, the Medical Affairs function plays a critical role in meeting current

Best Practices in Structuring & Managing Customer Complaint Resolution Groups

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Regardless of industry, one of the main goals all organizations have is to drive value for their customers.  In order for an organization to succeed in the marketplace, they must have an integrated approach to the customer. There are many

Medical Affairs Excellence: Size of MSL Teams

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As the Medical Affairs’ function continues to evolve, leaders must constantly reevaluate how they structure and staff this critical function. In order to truly enhance organizational effectiveness, leading healthcare companies must find the ideal staffing levels to run sleek and

(Infographic) Pharma Social Media Listening: Is Your Company Being Left Behind?

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Online social media disease state discussions among patients, physicians, caregivers and other key customer groups have flourished in recent years. Likewise, the need to capture the critical market insights that exist in these online platforms is also on the rise. Savvy

Trends in Professional Medical Education

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Leaders in the medical device and biopharmaceutical industries must constantly identify optimal resources levels to ensure organizational health and competitiveness in today’s ever-changing healthcare environment. As many Medical Education groups are facing shrinking budgets and struggling to determine how to

Medical Affairs Excellence: Leadership & Value

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One of the first steps in ensuring that your organization has a strong Medical Affairs function is to ensure that you have the appropriate leadership. From our Medical Affairs Consortium research & 2nd roundtable we found that the growing importance

Enhancing External Communication: Building an Organization’s Reputation

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External communication is one of the most critical functions in an organization, as it is the public face and voice of an organization. Despite this, finding the best approach to integrate the wide range of scattered activities of the function

Medical Affairs Excellence: Performance Metrics

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The Medical Affairs function plays an enormous role in meeting current challenges in clinical development, market education, and regulatory compliance.  As the importance of Medical Affairs continues to grow and the marketplace evolves, defining key performance metrics and utilizing them

Top 5 Best Practices & Lessons Learned for Marketing Services Excellence

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Marketing organizations are a key driver of organizational success. However, in today’s global marketplace, marketing organizations are increasingly being faced with the duel pressures of delivering exceptional services to internal clients while also holding down costs. In order to remain

Factors Driving Changes & Growth in the Healthcare Industry

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In the past five years the healthcare industry has experienced many changes & has continued to grow.  According to recent research by Software Advice (Healthcare’s Fastest-Growing Companies- By The Numbers), “the average health company on the Inc. 5000 list generated

Medical Affairs Excellence: Budget Trends & Outsourcing

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Understanding how to fully deliver value within the Medical Affairs function is a challenge many leaders are facing. In today’s ever-changing healthcare landscape, leaders are constantly adjusting their budgets and outsourcing as the Medical Affairs function continues to grow in