Posts Tagged ‘pharmaceutical

This is Part II of the analysis on pharma’s twitter presence. If you remember, we saw in part I that some pharma companies seem to be more engaged than others on twitter.
Based on visualizing the basic twitter statistics (followers, following and updates), we came to the conclusion that Boehringer Ingelheim, Johnson & Johnson and Roche were leading [...]

I just came across the MyMSmyway site. This site provides technology solutions to people with MS to help them with the challenges to their vision, cognition or dexterity that MS can create. It was created out of a collaboration between Bayer Healthcare, Microsoft and the National MS society and originated from a survey of 2,390 [...]

From discussions with folks in several pharma companies last week, I got the feeling that the business case for social media has become very clear to most companies (also see Impactiviti article outlining this quiet nicely). Therefore engaging with social media has found its way into most of the big pharma companies strategic initiatives this [...]

Voilà a very clever initiative from GSK France illustrating how pharma can use its priviledged position at the cross-roads of many important influencers to drive positive change of the healthcare system.

In 2005, GSK France under their CEO Hervé Gisserot started a blog to facilitate the discussion between French citizens and the main stakeholders of the [...]

Most pharma online campaigns focus on raising awareness about a disease and/or a treatment (depending on the legal constraints in each country). Yet, at least for me, they usually fail to raise the emotion and urgency required to drive me to action (ie. sign up for screening, go see my doctor etc.). To be fair, [...]

After having looked at pharma’s use of twitter, I decided to also get a feel for how pharma is engaging with facebook so far. Three main uses emerge: 1. connecting employees, 2. attracting talent and 3. promoting disease awareness or treatment adherence
1. Connecting current and ex- employees definately has the most activity. Numerous official and [...]

I decided to read through the annual reports of the top 10 pharma companies to see how much of a clearly stated strategic priority patient-focus was and how it is defined.
Unsurprisingly, every pharma company, I researched, states that one of their goals is to better meet patient needs. Most companies however do not disclose how [...]


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