Month: April 2015
Need To See A Health Care Professional? There’s An App For That
The other day I found an interesting “Groupon”-type offering in my inbox. Along with the coupons for unlimited kick-boxing and the latest fusion restaurant there was a surprising offer for a service called Doctors on Demand. This is a form of telemedicine which provides primary care/general medicine services while obviating the trip to the clinic. Telemedicine
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Has The “Gilligan’s Island Effect” Impacted Your Company? What Can Be Done?
In the life sciences industry, pigeonholing or typecasting is very real among individuals and companies alike. Job candidates cannot shake the perception of what they were in their old position. Companies are only considered for the particular service or product they last provided, even if they have multiple core capabilities. Pigeonholing in the life science
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Pharmaceutical Mergers And Acquisitions: Will They Drive Growth?
As someone who works in the pharmaceutical industry as well as an investor, I was curious as to the net result of all the mega mergers and acquisitions occurring within large pharma. Examples of such mergers and acquisitions could fill multiple blogs but I thought I would point out a brief history of a few
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