This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
SUMMARY: Physicians are tired and overwhelmed with medical information on new drugs. They don’t have the time to sit in the office and search for more information, and they feel that pharma is giving them “too much” information. The post It’s getting harder to launch a new drug to physicians.
QUICK READ: Reaching physicians with key brand messages isn’t hard, but the online landscape has become crowded with many players. By far, Medscape is still number one in physician reach , and medical journal advertising has been proven to result in more branded Rx’s. million physicians worldwide, in multiple languages.
QUICK READ: Patients are returning to their doctor’s office, and it’s not uncommon for appointments, or routine visits, to be scheduled weeks or months in advance. I talked to some thought leaders, and they said that they don’t have time for either virtual patient visits or online pharma detailing.
When visiting a doctor, it’s pretty common to see a doctor going from room to room with laptops. But where is pharma in this digital transaction? More and more, I am hearing that pharma is NOT part of the digital conversation while talking to other doctors and going to independent health resource sites.
Zoom Rx recently polled HCPs and found 78% of physicians want to maintain some contact with pharma reps. The most desired information doctors now want is about patient assistance programs, with 49% saying they want pharma reps to provide that information. 1ne: Medscape – Still number one with physicians.
After a year of pandemic-delayed medical tr eatments, doctors are seeing more cases of advanced illnesses. J&J did the right thing by asking for help from other pharma companies, but as I thought, COVID vaccines are a huge source of income, not helping the public defeat this pandemic. The post Pharma Tuesday Stuff.
IN BRIEF: Pharma companies have been posting jobs on LinkedIn almost every day. While most offices remain closed pharma is preparing for the launch of new products and has to have the infrastructure to ensure a successful launch. This is a great time for people who want to be the change they want to see to work in pharma.
Tik-Tok, Instagram, and other social media channels may soon be overwhelmed with pharma companies’ content, but is it a good idea? According to MedData Group, 72% of physicians surveyed were active on Facebook weekly, and 38% were active on Instagram and LinkedIn weekly. ” The post Can pharma really leverage social media?
SUMMARY: Deloitte predicts that the percentage of virtual video visits to doctors will rise to 5% globally in 2021, up from an estimated 1% in 2019. billion doctor’s visits, worth a total of approximately US$500 billion. Pharma’s content needs to focus on helping patients rather than selling them.
SUMMARY: A survey of more than 4,000 physicians showed that virtually every physician uses social media for personal reasons, while two-thirds use it for professional reasons. 86% of diagnostic device companies, 65% of pharma marketers, and over half of biotechs use social as a critical part of their marketing mix to reach HCPs.
So should pharma be in the app business? If, for existence, a pharma developed app requires patients to “check-in” everyday it could be a reminder that they are living with a chronic health issue. Should pharma, for example, collect data on users and how much should they collect and for what purpose? Mood trackers.
Table of Contents The Impact of a Pharma Ad Ban on TV Digital Marketing as a Primary Alternative Leveraging Data-Driven Advertising Strategies Strengthening Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Engagement The Impact of a Pharma Ad Ban on TV The potential for a pharma ad ban on TV has sparked intense discussions among marketing executives.
As HCPs get more digitally savvy, pharma marketers should understand that engaging physicians through channels and time of their preference with content relevant to the individual customer. 70% of HCPs said that pharma representatives do not understand their requirements completely.
IN SUMMARY : When patients return to doctor’s offices will HCP’s have time to go online with every drug company that requests an online detail? Will patients be happy with telehealth once they feel it’s safe to return to physicians’ offices? As for patients?
SUMMARY: Several online providers promise that they can reach physicians with your message, but I would argue that numbers are only important if they can be measured against key brand objectives. But what about websites targeted at physicians like Sermo, Medscape and Doximity? Physicians have the same online habits as most of us.
What is the definition of a successful pharma product launch? Pharma companies have been investing deeply into digital advertising but vastly under measuring customer engagement and other metrics. Work with vendors to submit quantitative metrics proposals, like reaching a certain percentage of your targeted physicians.
For life sciences commercial teams, effectively engaging physicians and supporting them with education on the evolving science around products and conditions requires a deep understanding of physician content needs and channel preferences. physicians across 15 specialties, treating more than 95 conditions. Among all U.S.
First, the health insurance companies are making a lot of money while burying doctors in paperwork and limiting treatment options. Patients and doctors are tired, and insurance companies are raising rates after two years of making a surplus because nobody went to the doctor during the pandemic. The result:?
This is one area where pharma companies can restore trust and excel. . Nearly 9 in 10 Americans feel confident in the information they find on the internet, and a third feel they learn more there than from their doctor. So what is pharma’s role in providing online health information? So what’s the ROI?
Digital pharma marketers have to “sell” the organization on the promise of digital marketing, but they also need to communicate that along with successes, there could be many failures. To master digital marketing, pharma needs to be prepared to fail. After the detail, the physician rated the interaction as “excellent.”
First, people aren’t always completely honest with their doctors. A recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open found that 60 to 80 percent of patients have been less than fully forthright with their doctors at some point which can be worse with telehealth. What can pharma do?
Biogen will partner with Roche on the development, and potential sale of a promising cancer drug the Swiss pharma is advancing for several types of lymphoma, announcing Tuesday it’s exercised an option to share rights to the treatment. The question that has to be asked is how will physicians respond to this drug if approved?
So let’s look at some of the top insights from the report, along with my snide comments: Consumers turn to pharma sites for reliable information: In the age of empowered consumers, access to reliable healthcare information has never been more demand. Most say pharma websites don’t meet their needs. INSIGHT: Yes, and no.
Yes, telehealth has grown substantially, but that’s because patients are afraid of going into doctor’s offices. Once vaccination levels reach critical mass, people will once again return to their physician’s offices. Let’s be clear about pharma product websites. Having just a website is not enough.
More than three-quarters of physicians say their practice is offering telemedicine visits. Digital channels play a far greater role in communication between pharma companies and healthcare professionals than before the pandemic. . The other finding that’s kind of missing is the value of a physician-pharma relationship.
SUMMARY: AI in the pharma industry has the ability to transform certain capabilities. There is nothing more frustrating for patients than trying to speak to someone at a doctor’s office only to go through a layered phone tree. AI may predict the questions patients and physicians have about a drug or its side effects.
SUMMARY: Doctors said they were dissatisfied were marketing emails (46%), telephone sales calls with sales reps (42%), and both webinars and websites (each at 39%) from pharma companies, according to Indegene. Here are some basics: 1ne: Physicians receive a lot of emails and don’t have time to read every one.
On physician social media sites, doctors are talking about how to treat patients, including a better understanding of patient attitudes. Much is being said about integrated messaging in the CPG arena, but in pharma, the messages to the patient and physician are often different when there should be some overlap.
Today, people don’t see a DTC TV ad and run to their doctor to ask for an Rx. They research the drug online and ask their physician about it if they decide it’s a treatment option. Second, a physician is not going to prescribe a drug a patient doesn’t need. Still, the gatekeeper continues to be their doctor.
Trust, for example, in physicians is still relatively high. Most patients completely trusted their physicians “to put their needs above all other considerations” (69%). But do doctors trust the system? Physician trust in the U.S. Physician trust in the U.S.
1ne : Physician expectations from pharma have shifted. They want pharma to “get to the point” and stop trying to “sell” so much. They expect and want more from HCPs and pharma companies. 5ive: People are interacting with their doctors in new ways. Why Omnichannel?
2wo: Telehealth will find use among patients because of convenience – No need to go to the doctor to ask for an Rx renewal and, in some cases, a new Rx. 3hree: Pharma will increase its spending in digital, but a lot of the money will be wasted. Digital, within healthcare, is used differently by online health seekers.
As a pharma marketer who has worked in many other therapeutic categories and recently on a Covid launch, I have become acutely aware of the interaction between national poles and the on-the-ground sentiment I have observed. My job is not to be a doctor but to educate so people can make informed decisions, hopefully with their physician. .
Facebook should post a warning on every page that deals with health issues that informs people that their physician is still their best source of information. In my opinion, pharma companies should avoid Facebook at all costs. I was also shocked by people questioning their doctor’s treatment recommendations.
But, in pharma marketing, the changes affect every product category. DTC pharma marketers must acknowledge that people’s days of seeing a TV ad and running to their doctor to ask for the product are all but gone. Use language that talks to patients as a physician would talk to them.
Every time I run into someone who is faced with the daunting challenge of marketing to doctors or other healthcare professionals, I giggle empathetically and say, “I feel your pain.”. It turns out that marketing to physicians can even be fun and easy when you overcome the obstacles which frustrate most others.
Nowhere is this clearer than in pharma DTC TV ads. Diabetes patients are having a vibrant discussion about the new “weight loss” drugs and asking many questions about their use and side effects, which pharma seems to be ignoring in their product website’s content. viewers still see linear T.V. It’s not more T.V.
Pharma websites provide the prescription that can help people overcome health problems but too often, they ignore the patient’s responsibility to lose weight and exercise. The FDA should require every pharma product website to devote part of its content to prevention and the importance of exercise.
In conjunction with CMI Media Group’s international expansion beyond the United States, we conducted research and published a report in partnership with Medscape which delved into the media habits of physicians across the EU5 countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Physicians and insurers are rejecting Aduhelm because it should never have been approved in the first place. Then they decided to move their HQ to an expensive campus in downtown Cambridge to play with “big pharma” Along with the move came new competitors and MS patients who reported that other MS drugs were better.
Faced with increasing wait times and delays in patient diagnosis and treatment, many healthcare systems are struggling to cope, with ever growing pressures on doctors’ time. New research from M3 highlights the need for pharma to adapt their communication efforts to help ease the burden placed on doctors.
SUMMARY: Both emergency room visits and doctors’ visits are down by about half because people are putting off treatment for medical emergencies due to fears of contracting COVID-19. How is pharma going to get patients back into to ask their doctor about branded medications?
OPENING: Pharma companies are starting to embrace digital marketing forced, in large part, by changes brought on by the pandemic. Of the 75% of physicians who preferred in-person visits from Medtech representatives prior to Covid-19, 47% now prefer virtual exchanges or less-frequent visits. Respondents had an average of 1.5
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 8,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content