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Information To Patients - New EU proposals
14 10 2011
What do the updated European Commission proposals for Information to Patients mean for the patient, pharma and for those of us who work in Medical Information & Medical Affairs? Could it widen the medicines information inequality gap, not reduce it?
What the busy Medical Information Manager needs to know - highlights from DIA EU conference
22 10 2009
Would the double hit of the economic crisis and killer workloads hold back directors and managers attending the 2009 DIA European Medical Information & Communications conference? No way! When times get tough, we need to communicate more, meet face to face more, listen more.
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.
What’s in a name? Medical Information vs Medical Affairs
03 03 2009
What’s the difference between Medical information and Medical Affairs? Using data from a European survey of professionals who answer questions from healthcare professionals on their company’s products, the roles and responsibilities are discussed. With changes due to company cutbacks and out-sourcing, is it time to rethink the job titles?
Is English language material really acceptable to non-UK European HCPs?
26 11 2008
How acceptable is material written in English for European healthcare professionals outside of the UK and Ireland? Sabine Lischka-Wittmann, LillyGmbH, researched the question for German customers. There were some suprises… Form the DIA Medical Information & Communications conference Ljubljana 2008
The Informed Patient - change or no change? DIA 2008
26 10 2008
Despite the delay to the publication of the EU Commission’s Pharmaceutical Package which includes proposals for improving information for patients across Europe, Paul Woods from AstraZeneca & Co Chair for the EFPIA Informed Patient Task Force gave an outline of the issues and possible measures to be taken. DIA Medical Information & Communications conference, Ljubljana 2008
Medical Information across Europe - A survey. DIA 2008
20 10 2008
Just how different is medical information in the different European countries? What are the issues that medical information managers facing today, that keeps them awake at night? Are there success stories that we can share within our community?
These were just some of the questions that were answered in a Pan-European survey I ran in collaboration with Janet Davies, International Medical Information Manager at Gilead. Report from day 1 at the DIA Clinical Forum, Medical Information & Communications track, Ljubljana October 2008
PIPA Information Impact Awards
03 08 2008
Review of the PIPA Impart awards: * EU collaborations * selling safety to sales reps * patient information website * educating your company colleagues on your products. Allergan (the winner), Astrazeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim & Reckitt Benckiser.
Global & regional collaborations plus technology. DIA 2007
20 10 2007
“Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you
don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon…”
Jim Rohn (thanks to Alexander Bedenkov, Schering Plough)
Could the programme for day two live up to the high standards and inspiring presentations set by day one? You bet!
