Ashfield celebrates 20 year anniversary
Chris Corbin had built up 18 years in the pharmaceutical industry as a medical sales representative, regional business manager and national sales manager before he and his wife, Sam, saw an opportunity to provide high quality, flexible and cost effective sales teams to pharmaceutical companies. Since then, the organisation has rapidly grown into a true success story. Ashfield were acquired in 2000 by UDG Healthcare (formerly, United Drug), which has given the organisation an opportunity to grow and acquire 19 companies complementing the existing services and continue to provide an exceptional partnership to the pharmaceuti...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - February 8, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

PAREXEL buys Kennesaw ’s Medical Affairs Company
PAREXEL International Corp. (NASDAQ: PRXL) will buy Kennesaw, Ga.-based The Medical Affairs Company LLC for an undisclosed sum. The deal should close in February, the companies said in a joint statement. The Medical Affairs Company (TMAC) started in 2007 and provides outsourced medical affairs services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. It has about 200 employees. Boston-based PAREXEL is a multinational life sciences consulting firm. “The commercialization-outsourcing…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - February 7, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Why a Dunedin entrepreneur sold his 30-year old company
A Nashville medical firm has bought one of Tampa Bay ’s largest veteran-owned firms. SpecialtyCare, which provides outsourced operating room clinical services, bought Trident Health Resources Inc. in Dunedin. Financial terms were not disclosed in a press release announcing the deal (see below). Trident provides outsourced perfusion services, which is the staffing and provision of heart and lung machines and supplies, to hospitals that perform open heart surgeries. With 55 employees, it ranked…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - February 6, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Margie Manning Source Type: news

Ashfield Iberia announces important leadership changes
As Chairman Ashfield Ibero-America, José Luis will report directly to Julian Tompkins, President of Ashfield Commercial and Clinical. In this critical new role, José Luis will focus on strategy development, customer partnerships and expanding Ashfield’s interests in Latin America. He will continue to work closely with all the team in Ashfield Iberia. Talking about his new responsibility, José Luis commented: “I’m delighted and enthusiastic about this professional promotion. My 32 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and commercial services will allow me to continue adding value to Ashfiel...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - January 30, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Diurnal partners with Ashfield and Sharp for outsourced services
Ashfield provides sales teams, healthcare communications, strategic consulting, in-home and call centre nurse educators, medical information, pharmacovigilance (drug safety), and event management services to over 300 healthcare companies with offices in 22 countries including the United Kingdom, America, Germany, Spain and Japan. Sharp Packaging Services is a leader in contract packaging and clinical trial supply services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Operating from nine state-of-the-art facilities across the United States and Europe, Sharp offers services in the fields of commercial packaging, clinic...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - January 25, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Codes of ethics cause problems for overseas operations
Corporate codes of ethics can have reverse effects and mask anomalies or social evils in operations outsourced to low-wage countries, suggests a new study.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 23, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news

General practice could be 'outsourced' to private corporations under MCP deal, warns BMA
General practice could be outsourced to private corporations under multispecialty community provider (MCP) contracts set to be rolled out this year, GP leaders have warned.
Source: GP Online News - January 5, 2017 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news

All The Mathematical Methods I Learned In My University Math Degree Became Obsolete In My Lifetime
This article is an expanded version of an essay published on Edge.org on January 1, 2017. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 1, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news

Medical News Today: MRSA linked to outsourced cleaning in NHS hospitals
A study of NHS hospitals suggests those that employ private cleaners have higher rates of the superbug MRSA, which can cause life-threatening infection.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Augmedix announces partnership with Aryaka
Medical Google Glass startup Augmedix said recently it partnered with Aryaka to use its global SD-WAN technologies to provide reliable and fast network connectivity for its smartglass platform. Augmedix touted Aryaka’s system, saying it is built on a global private network that bypasses the public internet to improve stability and application performance. “A reliable and fast global connectivity platform is key for the effective implementation of Augmedix’s revolutionary technology. Doctors spend a significant amount of their time on EHR documentation. Aryaka helps Augmedix take away the burden of documentat...
Source: Mass Device - December 8, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Electronic Medical Records Augmedix Source Type: news

General Practitioners Council warns of records ‘chaos’
The GPC has issued a warning that the GP patient record system in England is "in chaos" following a survey of 281 GP practices which has revealed widespread problems with the delivery of back office services, which were outsourced last year.
Source: NHS Networks - November 20, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Starbucks' menu, as selected by a nutritionist
You can't go too far these days without running into a Starbucks. The chain is so ubiquitous, it's almost like having an outsourced pantry staple available within a 5-mile radius (or a few city blocks) all day.
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A nutritionist's guide to Starbucks' menu
You can't go too far these days without running into a Starbucks. The chain is so ubiquitous, it's almost like having an outsourced pantry staple available within a 5-mile radius (or a few city blocks) all day.
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Liz Harvey strengthens Ashfield Meetings & Events ’ exhibit offering
Liz will head up a dedicated global exhibit team that operates as an internal department, delivering a specialist service to the agency’s healthcare clients. In the last 12 months the team has delivered over 100 exhibits in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific . Liz will report to Nicola Burns, Global Managing Director at Ashfield Meetings & Events. Liz joined Ashfield Meetings & Events in 2006 as a Project Executive and progressed through the ranks to become an Account Director. In this time she has worked with numerous healthcare and life science organisations at a local, regional and global level. Most recen...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 19, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

It ' s Time to Stop Using Finances as an Excuse
Finding the balance between profitability and benefits for the target market is a holy grail of every contemporary business endeavor. This is even more so for the pharma industry, where the stakes are high, with far-reaching consequences for patients and society at large.Despite some resilient popular myths, patient focus is extremely cost-effective, as demonstrated in eyeforpharma ’s recent whitepaper,Patient-Centric Profitability: Pharma ’s Global Survey& Analysis.A key question raised within the paper is: Given the cost-effectiveness of patient focus, why is there still such considerable debate about the monetar...
Source: EyeForPharma - September 20, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Nicola Davies Source Type: news

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