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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?
So how's the job market then? PIPA 09
10 07 2009
Is it all doom and gloom in the job market for pharmacovigilance and medical information or medical affairs folks? A quick word with Jonathan Hart-Smith from CK Clinical at the PIPA 2009 conference revealed some astonishing facts and figures.
Field-based Medical Information - friend or foe? PIPA 09
10 07 2009
What are the challenges of setting up and managing a field-based medical information team? What dangers do you need to avoid and what steps can you put in place to mitigate these risks? At the PIPA conference, Shaeed Chowdhury, Napp Pharmaceuticals took us on his journey in establishing a filed based team alongside the office based MI department.
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.
Work Smarter Not Harder - 1/2 day workshop
02 06 2009
Work Harder not Smarter – a half day workshop to optimise time management in medical information or pharmacovigilance teams. Learn successful strategies for different team members. Break bad habits. Discover how you can work more effectively as a team. Run as a company training session, contact Sharon Leighton for training rates | +44 1600 713295 | sharon@sharonleighton.co.uk |
Globalisation in Medical Communications. DIA US Med Comms 2009
19 03 2009
Globalisation (or at least regionalisation) of medical information departments is a growing trend in the pharmaceutical industry. Drivers, challenges, organisational models and critical success factors making it all possible are described, based on the experiences of the 3 speakers, Dan Kates, Gilead; Tom Gesell, Novartis and Sharon Leighton. From the Globalization session at the recent DIA US Med Comms workshop.
Web 2.0. How to reach the doctors that reps can’t reach; Sermo.com
05 03 2009
How can Web 2.0 be used in our interactions with physicians and patients? How Sermo.com could deliver new customers, channels and great insights to our products and customer needs. Plus an overview on Web 2.0 by Andrew Smith, Registrat.
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?
Winners or losers?
08 02 2009
Have we lost anything in the march of technological progress? Yet some Med Info departments still use paper methods to track enquiries. Fit for purpose? Ideal if you only have 10 enquiries a month?
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
WOW your customers - Quality Ways of Working (WOW)
26 11 2008
How to document and manage your business processes and training to build in quality and make it consistent. Includes two great tips on WOW (Ways of Working). Sarah Dunnett, Baxter Healthcare. From DIA Medical Information & Communications meeting 2008 Ljubljana
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. DIA 2008
26 10 2008
What does quality management in medical information mean? Lillian Auberson, Actelion, explained how quality is managed through policies, defined processes and customer review. And a new talking point – should enquiry responses use colour to highlight key information? From the DIA Medical Information & Communications conference Ljubljana 2008.
Pitfalls & Practice of Outsourcing. DIA 2008
26 10 2008
Sophie Graham-Godet from Accenture gave a comprehensive overview of outsourcing in in general and how it applies to medical information in the pharmaceutical industry. From the DIA Medical Information & Communciations conference Ljubljana 2008
From Russia, with love. DIA 2008
20 10 2008
Schools for patients, reps with medical degrees and supporting a country with 12 time zones. Just some of the challenges for medical information in Central & Eastern Europe. Running a regional call centre is an alternative organisational model but it’s not without some challenges.
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
A Future Vision for Medical Information - PIPA 08
23 07 2008
A vision of the future for a national service for enquiries on medicines as proposed by Joanne Shaw, Datapharm Communications Ltd. Could we make more steps towards an ideal world where people can find information themselves or go to a national network for medicines information? From PIPA Conference 2008
