The Twelve Steps of Pharma Social Marketers Anonymous

Welcome to Pharma Social Marketers Anonymous (PSMA)! You are among friends. Soon, you will take important steps on the path to overcoming your fear of social media. The first step is to admit you are powerless over social media and that your online life has become unmanageable. Are you ready to take ALL 12 steps toward recovery?

The British Pharmaceutical Industry Issues Social Media Guidance for Adverse Event Reporting

Once again the Brits have beaten the US in issuing useful guidelines for social media use by the pharmaceutical industry! As I reported back in April, 2011, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA), which oversees the self-regulatory code of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), published

Most Credible Bad Ad Complaints are Submitted by Pharma

According to a Bad Ad Program 2010-2011 Year End Report just issued by the FDA, the program is a success despite the fact that ONLY 125 complaints were deemed worthy of

Fair Social Media Practice Principles

Rules for Third-Party Engagement in Patient/Physician Social Networks. A Social Media Policy is not just an agreement that users must abide by. More importantly, it is a PROMISE to users from site owners/sponsors concerning how they will protect or attempt to protect user-generated content, personal conversations, interactions, and engagements with third-parties on the site. These policies should comply with as-yet-to-be-determined, universally accepted 'fair social media practice principles.'

Finding the Consumer Within the Patient: Insights Into How Healthcare Decisions are Made

Self Care Catalysts' Patient Intelligence Insights Guide™ on Diabetes is the only integrated patient-and consumer-centric report that explores how people suffering from an invisible condition such as diabetes actually circumnavigate their health condition, using the unique Self Care Health Decision Making Dynamics framework™. It is an example of what Grace Soyao, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Self Care Catalysts Inc., a health research and strategy company, means by 'Finding the Consumer within the Patient.'

Finding the Consumer Within the Patient: Insights Into How Healthcare Decisions are Made

Self Care Catalysts' Patient Intelligence Insights Guide™ on Diabetes is the only integrated patient-and consumer-centric report that explores how people suffering from an invisible condition such as diabetes actually circumnavigate their health condition, using the unique Self Care Health Decision Making Dynamics framework™. It is an example of what Grace Soyao, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Self Care Catalysts Inc., a health research and strategy company, means by 'Finding the Consumer within the Patient.'

Pharma Marketing News Vol. 10, No. 11: 21 June 2011

Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #11 (21 JUNE 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.

Pharma Marketing News Vol. 10, No. 11: 21 June 2011

Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #11 (21 JUNE 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.

Pharma Marketing News Vol. 10, No. 11: 21 June 2011

Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #11 (21 JUNE 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.

I am Off to Paris and Doctors 2.0 & You Conference!

For the next 2 weeks I will be in Europe speaking at two conferences. The first stop is Paris, France, where I will lead...