Download or read book Making Medicines Affordable written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.
Download or read book Selling Pharmaceutical Service written by Edwin J. Boberg and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marketing Pharmaceutical Services written by Harry Alcide Smith and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marketing Pharmaceutical Services discusses nearly every aspect of pharmacy patronage, the quintessential element of a successful community pharmacy practice. With recent trends showing availability and quality of both traditional and professional pharmacy services as key factors in patronage of a pharmacy, there is a greater need for understanding types of services customers desire in their community pharmacies. This anthology of research, gleaned from journals published over the past decade, with helpful interpretative comments by Smith and Coons, is the most complete resource available on marketing services. This unique volume provides data from which practicing pharmacists can develop a service programdesigned for its patrons and marketing strategies for promoting those services. Whether chain or independent drug stores, managers above the store level will find practical, relevant marketing hints in this one convenient source. Special topics covered include: defining and classifying patronage factors and motives characterizing consumers as related to pharmacy patronage assessing consumers'attitudes and perceptions concerning pharmacists'roles in counseling patrons on their use of drugs, private consulting with patrons, and prescription price strategizing marketing for special markets, such as elderly in housing communities and long term care facilities The variety of topics covered will interest all involved in the field of pharmacy from graduate and advanced undergraduate students and professors, to marketing and sales specialists, especially managers in the wholesale industry.
Download or read book From Pharma to Device Sales written by Samuel D. Lamptey and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pharma to Device Sales is a concise, straight to the point pocket guide, enabling pharmaceutical sales people to move into the medical device sales arena. There is no other book available that explores how to successfully change industries. This guide has valuable insights from recent personal experiences, up-to-date material and useful statistics – to ensure a successful industry transition. Making the switch from pharmaceutical sales to medical devices can be an uphill struggle. Are you in pharmaceutical sales looking to cross over? Have you ever wondered what selling medical devices is really like? Do you know the vital differences between selling drugs and devices? Do you want to know the typical mistakes pharmaceutical sales people make at interviews and learn how to avoid such pitfalls? This book will provide all these answers and much more! From Pharma to Device Sales is a unique, concise and inspirational book. Whatever stage you are at in your pharma career, this is a must read.
Download or read book Selling Sickness written by Ray Moynihan and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, Ray Moynihan and Allan Cassels show how drug companies are systematically using their dominating influence in the world of medical science, drug companies are working to widen the very boundaries that define illness. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness, and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD. Selling Sickness reveals how expanding the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt national healthcare systems all over the world. This Canadian edition includes an introduction placing the issue in a Canadian context and describing why Canadians should be concerned about the problem.
Download or read book Jump Starting a Career in Pharmaceuticals written by Tamra B. Orr and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers interested in becoming a pharmacy technician, manufacturing technician, pharmaceutical sales representative, pharmacy billing specialist, pharmacy records manager, or pharmacy clerk, among other jobs, this guide encourages them to start doing their homework now by taking any high school, honors, college prep, or community college science and math classes available. Invaluable information regarding job training, certification, and associate's degrees is provided. The relative merits and advantages of online, community college, traditional university, and 2- and 4-year programs are analyzed and discussed. Networking is also emphasized. This valuable volume will help direct readers to a great pharmaceutical industry career.
Download or read book How to Break Into Pharmaceutical Sales written by Tom Ruff and published by Tom Ruff Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book is an] organized 'formulary' written for those who are considering a specific field - 'drug reps', as they are known in the industry.-Introd.
Download or read book Marketing for Pharmacists written by David A. Holdford and published by American Pharmacists Association (APhA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is marketing? How is marketing different from selling? How will better marketing skills enhance a pharmacist's professional pharmacy practice? These questions and many more are answered in this comprehensive and practical resource for pharmacists and pharmacy students. Marketing theory is augmented by case studies, vignettes and examples all specific to pharmacy practice.
Download or read book Pharmaceutical Selling detailing and Sales Training written by Arthur F. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insider s Guide to the World of Pharmaceutical Sales written by Jane Williams and published by Principle Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist in Fore Word Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Awards. The new Insider's Guide to the World of Pharmaceutical Sales, 9th Edition, contains 196 pages of outstanding pharmaceutical sales job interview and pharmaceutical selling information, including the enhanced PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals that takes effect in January 2009. It is a complete pharmaceutical sales interview guide offering step-by-step instructions on how to gain a pharmaceutical sales position and then excel at the position. Highlights of the New Ninth Edition! ¿ 155 Pharmaceutical Sales Interview Questions and Answers. ¿ 26 Top Pharmaceutical Company Profiles. ¿ List of 300 Pharmaceutical Companies. ¿ Crafting the perfect Pharmaceutical Sales Resume. ¿ Networking successfully to gain a position. ¿ Finding unadvertised pharmaceutical sales positions. ¿ Successfully negotiating multiple, increasingly difficult interviews to get the job. ¿ Surpass the competition and land a pharmaceutical sales position. ¿ Winning a pharmaceutical sales job without having sales experience. ¿ Detailed ¿Day in the Life¿ of a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative. ¿ Physician/District Manager Personality Profiling. ¿ Career Comparison Guide preparation. ¿ Systematic instructions on how to prepare your ¿Sales Binder¿ for job interviews. ¿ Complete step-by-step instructions on how to sell a pharmaceutical product with examples outlining every detail of the sales presentation, including the dialogue. ¿ Information throughout on how to be a successful pharmaceutical sales representative.
Download or read book Managed Care Guide for Pharmaceutical Sales Professionals written by Atlantic Information Services, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad Pharma written by Ben Goldacre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2012, revised edition published in 2013, by Fourth Estate, Great Britain; Published in the United States in 2012, revised edition also, by Faber and Faber, Inc.
Download or read book Professional Pharmaceutical Selling written by Jane Williams and published by Principle Publications. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the best-selling author of the "Insider's Guide to the World of Pharmaceutical Sales," this title provides the necessary insight and information needed to hasten the learning process so that the new representative will not only meet, but exceed their sales goals. (Careers-Jobs)
Download or read book Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adulteration and fraudulent manufacture of medicines is an old problem, vastly aggravated by modern manufacturing and trade. In the last decade, impotent antimicrobial drugs have compromised the treatment of many deadly diseases in poor countries. More recently, negligent production at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy sickened hundreds of Americans. While the national drugs regulatory authority (hereafter, the regulatory authority) is responsible for the safety of a country's drug supply, no single country can entirely guarantee this today. The once common use of the term counterfeit to describe any drug that is not what it claims to be is at the heart of the argument. In a narrow, legal sense a counterfeit drug is one that infringes on a registered trademark. The lay meaning is much broader, including any drug made with intentional deceit. Some generic drug companies and civil society groups object to calling bad medicines counterfeit, seeing it as the deliberate conflation of public health and intellectual property concerns. Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs accepts the narrow meaning of counterfeit, and, because the nuances of trademark infringement must be dealt with by courts, case by case, the report does not discuss the problem of counterfeit medicines.
Download or read book Pharmaceutical Marketing written by Mickey C. Smith and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-10-24 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the fascinating and dramatic changes in pharmacy, pharmaceutical education, and the pharmaceutical industry in recent years, this authoritative volume focuses on the practice of marketing both prescription and nonprescription medications. In a dozen comprehensive chapters, author Mickey Smith highlights the economic social, and
Download or read book The New Medicine and the Old Ethics written by Albert R. Jonsen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonsen (medical history and ethics, U. of Washington Medical School) addresses the conflict between altruism and self-interest, which he believes is built into the structure of medical care and woven into the fabric of physicians' lives. Ranging through history from the mythical Asclepius to the lat
Download or read book The Truth About the Drug Companies written by Marcia Angell and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and increasingly failed to meet spiraling prescription drug prices. Now, in this bold, hard-hitting new book, Dr. Angell exposes the shocking truth of what the pharmaceutical industry has become–and argues for essential, long-overdue change. Currently Americans spend a staggering $200 billion each year on prescription drugs. As Dr. Angell powerfully demonstrates, claims that high drug prices are necessary to fund research and development are unfounded: The truth is that drug companies funnel the bulk of their resources into the marketing of products of dubious benefit. Meanwhile, as profits soar, the companies brazenly use their wealth and power to push their agenda through Congress, the FDA, and academic medical centers. Zeroing in on hugely successful drugs like AZT (the first drug to treat HIV/AIDS), Taxol (the best-selling cancer drug in history), and the blockbuster allergy drug Claritin, Dr. Angell demonstrates exactly how new products are brought to market. Drug companies, she shows, routinely rely on publicly funded institutions for their basic research; they rig clinical trials to make their products look better than they are; and they use their legions of lawyers to stretch out government-granted exclusive marketing rights for years. They also flood the market with copycat drugs that cost a lot more than the drugs they mimic but are no more effective. The American pharmaceutical industry needs to be saved, mainly from itself, and Dr. Angell proposes a program of vital reforms, which includes restoring impartiality to clinical research and severing the ties between drug companies and medical education. Written with fierce passion and substantiated with in-depth research, The Truth About the Drug Companies is a searing indictment of an industry that has spun out of control.
