Tagged with VAT

EUROPE The latest EFPIA data on the VAT rates applied to medicines in European countries in 2018.

Digital Health Rhenu Bhuller, a founding member of Frost & Sullivan’s Asia Pacific operations and expert in analysing the impact of cutting-edge tech, looks at pharma’s evolution and adoption of digital health.   The evolution of disease management and the convergence of drugs, devices and digital health in the management of various…

Innovation Meghann Chilcott, Senior Vice President of OrderInsite, looks at how new technology is being applied to improve accuracy and efficiency in pharmacy accounting. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put the cost of billing and payment errors in 2017 at $36.21 billion. Pharmacy accounting and bookkeeping is a challenging necessity.…

Innovation Carla Smith, Executive Vice President of The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) discusses the need to adopt innovation and retrain the workforce to provide healthcare without walls. If we are short-sighted and base our future workforce projections upon outdated models, we will experience a significant shortage in the…

Korea Olive Healthcare is a startup developing wellness and medical devices services for the quantitative measurement of body composition, an integral part of the new healthcare paradigm based on prevention. Here, Dr. Sung-Ho Han, its CEO and founder together with Andrew Son, chief strategy officer, sheds light on the first two…

Innovation Buck Dossey, an expert in digital marketing and audience manager at Adobe, discusses consumer needs in healthcare and the importance of adopting a digital health strategy.  Joining the digital transformation race today means that many companies will have to transform to become digitally agile.  While the topic of digital transformation permeates…

China Eric Bouteiller, formerly with Ipsen (most recently as SVP Asia PC Operations based in Beijing) and chairman of the R&D-based Pharmaceutical Association Committee (RDPAC) till December 2017, speaks in his personal capacity regarding the extraordinary changes within the Chinese healthcare and life sciences landscape. He highlights China’s dramatic pivot towards…

Malaysia Cliford Patrick, regional vice president listings at MIMS expands on the opportunities that data can bring to healthcare in Malaysia, from improving patient safety, to streamlining the healthcare budget. Patrick also shares his thoughts on future digitalization projects in Malaysia, and the scope for medical cannabis in the country.  …

UK With more than 25 years pharmaceutical industry experience, Ian Chamberlain provides training to help pharma salespeople talk to customers and provides sales managers with software to help pharma companies intelligently listen to the dialogue. As an insider, Ian breaks down the changing role of medical salespeople, from “Tell Sell” to “Intelligent…

Innovation Patient groups oftentimes serve as the authority on a specific disease when it comes to advancing research.   “Without patient perspective, there is no good medical product development,” Rachel Sherman, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner proclaimed during her keynote at last week’s NORD’s Rare Disease & Orphan Products Breakthrough Summit.…

France Eric Bothorel, Deputy at the French Assemblée Nationale and responsible for the parliamentary group on data, knowledge & AI, provides an exclusive interview on France’s digitalization process. Bothorel describes France’s progress in frontier technologies like AI and Big Data and explains their expanding role in the healthcare sector.   Can…

USA After her son was diagnosed with SYNGAP1 – an extremely rare gene mutation – Monica founded Bridge the Gap – SYNGAP Education and Research Foundation to support families of those suffering from the illness and to accelerate the path to better therapies. Here she discusses the importance of community for tackling rare…