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How medical device sales teams can embrace digital transformation

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Selling amid a global pandemic has changed the face of sales forever. This is nowhere more pronounced than for medical device sales teams, who typically schedule regular visits to hospitals and doctors’ offices to create a personal, ongoing connection that drives forward the sales process.

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Consumers want convenient, online doctor-finding tools

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When it comes to pharma marketing, historically companies have had to either market direct to consumers — and trust them to find a doctor and bring up the company’s product with them — or to send sales reps to doctors — and hope they had the right mix of potential customers among their patients. That number is up 17% from 2019.

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The post-pandemic evolution of pharma-doctor digital interactions

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M3’s Tim Russell and Maxim Polyakov, together with Digital Futureway’s Heather Hancock, discuss new research on how doctor engagement has been altered by COVID-19. COVID-19 forced an unprecedented shift towards the virtual delivery of healthcare, suddenly compelling doctors increasingly to use digital means to care for their patients.

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The doctors have spoken: what physicians need from pharma comms in the post-pandemic world

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Faced with increasing wait times and delays in patient diagnosis and treatment, many healthcare systems are struggling to cope, with ever growing pressures on doctors’ time. New research from M3 highlights the need for pharma to adapt their communication efforts to help ease the burden placed on doctors.

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Pharma’s addiction to McKinsey

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They recommended that the company increase the drug’s price substantially even though the brand’s research showed that Oncologists would stop using the drug if the price increased. They followed McKinsey’s advice, and the VP of sales questioned why volume had dropped so much.

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Prescription drug marketing misconceptions

World of DTC Marketing

Today consumers don’t run to their doctor after seeing a DTC ad, they do their research, and in some cases, the ads actually help them identify potential health problems. Today, that number is even lower because consumers are more likely to do their research instead of blindly asking their doctor for an Rx.

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Communicating with HCPs via email

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SUMMARY: Doctors said they were dissatisfied were marketing emails (46%), telephone sales calls with sales reps (42%), and both webinars and websites (each at 39%) from pharma companies, according to Indegene. It can’t be promotional or sales information and should not be a long document. 100 percent of U.S.

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