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During this year’s DPharm 2018, Pharma15 Live! met up with Hassan Kadhim, senior associate director and head of IT clinical trial planning and management at Boehringer Ingelheim, before his presentation on the company’s novel remote clinical trial in the respiratory space. Kadhim reflected about the huge changes that he’s seen in the industry just in the past year. 

Topics: Disruptive Innovation, Conferences, clinical research, clinical trials, Pharma15, digital

In the ongoing battle of BYOD (bring-your-own-device) vs. provision devices, Zachary Javitt, CEO and co-founder of PillTracker, has firmly come down on one side.

Topics: Disruptive Innovation, Conferences, clinical research, clinical trials, Pharma15, digital

Pharma15 Live! sat down with David Levesque to discuss the goal and mission of Andaman7. Throughout the DPharm, one of the main topics was about new ways to allow patients to access their own data.

Topics: Disruptive Innovation, Conferences, clinical research, clinical trials, Pharma15, digital

Pharma15 Live! sat down Valerie Bowling, drug development industry researcher and founder of DPharm, during the conference to discuss this year’s presentations, and the very popular DPharm Idol competition:

Topics: Disruptive Innovation, Conferences, clinical research, clinical trials, Pharma15, Patient Data

What does patient data ownership actually mean? According to Craig Lipset, head of clinical innovation at Pfizer and DPharm 2018 co-chair, that is still an open question. Pharma15 Live! chatted with him about it at the DPharm 2018 conference.

Topics: Disruptive Innovation, Conferences, clinical research, clinical trials, Patient Experience, Pharma15, Most Viewed, Patient Data

Topics: clinical research, clinical trials, Pharma15, Patient Data

When it comes to digital health, do you believe that we are past the era of hype and into the era of adoption? Is there a degree of skepticism that still inhibits the wider adoption of digital health solutions in clinical research and healthcare?

Topics: Patient Recruitment, digital health, Digital Platforms, Pharma15

The idea of “digital patient engagement” continues to be one of the hottest topics in the healthcare industry, and according to BBK Worldwide director of innovation Erica Mercado, everyone defines this term in different ways. For instance, apps, wearables, and digital outreach and messaging are all tactics that can be effectively deployed to keep patients engaged. But for Erica, truly effective digital patient engagement amounts to more than the sum of its parts.

Topics: Patient Engagement, digital health, Patient Experience, Pharma15, Vlog

Even when we consider the strict regulations inherent to the healthcare industry, we are still years behind where we should be with regard to the adoption of mobile health technologies. Just look to other highly regulated sectors, like banking and finance; we see that adoption of mobile technology in these industries is much more established.

Topics: mHealth, digital health, Pharma15

There is no doubt that Amazon’s recent acquisition of PillPack – the independent pharmacy and medication distribution system – has major implications not only for the clinical research industry, but the healthcare industry at-large. We asked BBK Worldwide president Matt Kibby to weigh in on Amazon’s foray into the pharmaceutical space. 

Topics: Pharma15, Vlog