In a recent MedicinMan Poll on LinkedIn, it was clear that pharma field forces have hit a brick wall. Other than GPs, very few specialist doctors seem interested in meeting Medical Reps. This is in keeping with the trends in the US and European markets, where Medical Reps meet with…
A big myth about digital transformation is that it is all about technology. It is not. First, it is about thinking about how the business can grow faster and scale greater than it ever could in the past. It helps us to think of the true nature of technology. Second,…
To be able to measure the RoI on digital in pharma, it is necessary to understand customers as individuals and create newer segmentation based on these needs and interests. This calls for the NextGen RCPA of data collection and personalized communications that engage customers, based on which pharma must create customer experiences that matter to them.
If your content does not scratch, where it itches the customers, digital or phygital, customers will not feel at home (comfortable, delighted, and wants more), which is what matters. Not a digital euphoria, which will soon die down as customers simply ignore it as they did when pharma launched a plethora of webinars.
How long before digital Unicorns like Ola, Swiggy, Pharmeasy, and many others realize the humongous opportunity of delivering health care at the doorstep?
Imagine an app like Ola, where instead of entering where you want to go, you enter the nature of your medical need/emergency and search and find a range of hospitals/doctors/paramedics who can act as the first responders and reach your home in an ambulance or a motorbike with an HCP as a pillion rider with all necessary equipment from the thermometer to defibrillator depending on the nature of the medical care needed and triage and route you/your loved ones to the nearest hospital with an indicative cost of treatment in partnership with health insurance companies?
The first time I heard the term ‘digital economy’ in the medical context, it was from a reputed doctor who was a co-panelist and speaker at a company town hall event on digital marketing. It did not surprise me one bit that the doctor knew more about the digital economy…
More than digitalizing your product promotions, the case calls for building and engaging your brand community through digital solutions that create memorable customer experiences.
With the new normal emerging, the traditional Pharma commercial model needs to be relooked by exploring alternative channels of engagement, which offer opportunities to create value for customers.
Company-specific digital adoption workshops to experience how a brand can be promoted using the omnichannel approach with field force involvement.
With access to HCPs becoming a daunting task for the medical reps, organizations are finding newer ways to prepare medical reps to become more effective. Here are 7 modern ways of equipping the medical reps with the right enablement and learning tools to become trusted advisors to the HCPs. 1. …
How had Indian Pharma responded to the challenges brought on by the Covid19 crisis and the inability to connect with doctors and other Rx influencers?
Is it back to business-as-usual or have some companies learned from their mistakes and become digital savvy?
How will Indian Pharma cope with the possibility of another lockdown and meeting restrictions looming in view of the rising Omicron wave?
Is Pharma’s business model like McDonald’s? Doing things over & over again without innovation?
McDonald’s is famous for its Hamburger University, a training facility at the McDonald’s Corporation global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. It instructs high-potential restaurant managers in restaurant management.
More than 5,000 students attend Hamburger University each year and over 275,000 people have graduated with a degree in Hamburgerology.
Sound familiar? Pharma’s training has been on similar lines – hire people continuously and put them through the grind of mugging up essentials of drugs for diseases that the particular company sells.
While the McDonald’s model is ideal for its business of replication, it has outlived its utility in healthcare and drug companies are in danger of being reduced to mere suppliers of drugs to new digital platform businesses unless they learn to innovate.
The MedicinMan 10th Anniversary Special – Pharma CEO Roundtable 2021 Series 2 is Now Live Pharma CEO Roundtable – Engaging Doctors – Physical, Digital and Hybrid: Translating Strategy into Action Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mahender Nayak, Senior VP / Head of ICMEA* Region (India, Turkey, CIS Countries, Ukraine, Middle East &…