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Compliance 101. DIA US Med Comms 2011

09 03 2011

As Monica Kwarcinski, Purdue Pharma, reminded us, compliance wasn’t even on the Medical Communications landscape 15 years ago. Today, it’s a very different story. The whole area has become formalised into Medical Information practice and expanded to encompass all of our activities. These are my take-home messages about compliant activities in Med Info from this great 3 hour tutorial at the 2011 DIA US Med Comms workshop.

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Health check for medical information: auditing 17 European depts. PIPA 09

10 07 2009

As a manager of a Medical Information or Medical Affairs department, you never know how well you are doing until you have to go through an audit or regulatory inspection. They may closely examine only part of your practices. Would you love to be able to know from an independent consultant and auditor about your department? At the PIPA conference Information Impact Awards, Charlotte Wormleighton, European Medical Information Director, AstraZeneca, runs through the methodology we used to audit 17 Western Europe markets using an innovative idea….. the phone.

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