April 9, 2018 – During a turbulent time in Washington, D.C., healthcare marketers and communication professionals likely have many questions about how the Trump administration’s priorities will impact their industry, how new data privacy regulations that may result from Facebook’s misuse of data will impact their jobs, how a focus on drug pricing could lead […]
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May 31, 2017 – New FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s initial tasks largely will be administrative, according to Wayne Pines, healthcare president at APCO Worldwide and former FDA associate commissioner for public affairs, who spoke at a May 16 session of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication Rising Leaders Conference for Healthcare Policy, held in Washington, D.C. […]
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May 30, 2017 — In response to former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf’s recent call for the Coalition for Healthcare Communication to establish a code of ethics for members, several industry leaders on the CHC’s executive committee indicated that such a code strikes a responsive chord (see related article at http://www.cohealthcom.org/?p=3586). At the Coalition’s May 15 […]
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May 23, 2017 — By Coalition for Healthcare Communication Executive Director John Kamp Participants at last week’s Coalition for Healthcare Communication Rising Leaders Conference on Healthcare Policy in D.C. heard much about the possibility of price controls on our client’s products but did not find broad consensus on whether they might happen and what […]
Read moreMay 18, 2017 – At this week’s information-packed Coalition for Healthcare Communication’s Rising Leaders Conference, keynote speaker and former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said that “healthcare marketers need to create a code of ethics to promote drugs for truthful and non-misleading uses outside their FDA-approved labels, commonly referred to as off-label promotion,” according to coverage […]
Read more April 24, 2017 – There is no doubt that the Trump administration is likely to change health policy, but the questions that remain to be answered are exactly what those changes will be and how they will affect healthcare communication. If you want predictions and insight from a distinguished panel of FDA and policy experts, […]
Read more April 11, 2017 – There is no doubt that the Trump administration is likely to change health policy in the near future, but the questions that remain to be answered are exactly what those changes will be and how they will affect healthcare communication. For predictions and insight from an expert panel of FDA and […]
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March 20, 2017 – Although medical marketers are very familiar with Scott Gottlieb, President Donald Trump’s choice for the top job at the FDA and a former FDA deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs, they can only make educated guesses about how he will run the agency of 14,000 people and what his positions […]
Read moreMay 17, 2016 — Healthcare policy improvements are underway in Washington, and industry advocacy makes a difference—that was the recurring message from speakers to an overflow audience of rising leaders in the healthcare communication industry as they met in Washington last week for an overview of healthcare policy in the evolving political landscape. “Much of the […]
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