Cleaning Data
Unstructured or uncleaned data is prevalent in the US medical field and without knowing how your data managed, it can’t properly be used.
Value of Processing Data in the Cloud
In the past 10 years, companies have been shifting their data and data processing to the Cloud at increasing rates – the global market for services in the Cloud is worth about $132 billion today, according to Forrester Research. Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services — from applications to storage and processing…
Negotiating Rebates: How Pharmaceuticals Firms can Succeed
Since the birth of rebates, pharmaceuticals manufacturers have been struggling with the ability to analyze customer and contract performance for an objective measure of margins and profitability. Most pharmaceuticals firms lack the IT skills to do this; outsourcing to a consultant with know-how in artificial intelligence and machine learning solves the problem. Rebates should offer…
The Great Rebates Debate
Rebates have been part of the pharmaceuticals business for many years. Now the Trump administration is preparing regulations that would end rebates, with the object of providing that discount on a drug’s price at the pharmacist’s counter. On January 31, 2019 Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Inspector General Daniel Levinson proposed a…