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3 Benefits of Centralizing Global Content for eCOA Migration

In recent years, life sciences organizations have been looking for a standardized approach to collecting global patient data while maintaining compliance and adhering to study timeline milestones. For clinical trials launched across multiple regions, time zones, and patient...
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Pharma Digital Marketing: Trends for Customer Engagement

Trends for Pharma Digital MarketingAll you need to know about above-the-line and below-the-line advertising and multichannel and omnichannel engagementIn today’s evolving digital landscape, companies are looking for the best ways to improve customer experience and...
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Why Automate the Literature Monitoring Process?

A key concern for pharma companies is keeping a close eye on publications that might mention their product and its potential impact on the public. These publications can be extremely dense in volume, commanding careful review of multiple documents across several different...
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Driving Patient Engagement in Medicine Development and Decision-Making – Challenges and Opportunities

The need for integrating patient engagement strategies early in the medicine development process has sparked widespread discussion in the pharmaceutical industry and beyond. This shift toward patient-centric, patient-empowered healthcare and decision-making has highlighted...
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Leveraging the Patent Priority Date: A Life Sciences Focus

The ACC last month hosted the San Francisco Bay Area Life Sciences CLE Conference, giving TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) team members the opportunity to learn and connect with colleagues. One of the panels, moderated by Alex Trimble, Partner at Mintz Levin, Cohn, Ferris,...
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Digital Health’s Role in Improving Patient Engagement

​In recent years, the patient journey has become more virtual, with patients seeking online information prior to engaging with healthcare providers (HCPs). Even as we transition back into traditional, in-person patient care, digital health is proving to be much more than just...
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4 Ways a CCMS Can Help Medical Affairs Achieve Global Content Reuse and Omnichannel Delivery

The medical affairs industry is undergoing a widespread digital transformation in the new era of patient centricity. Pharma companies must adapt their delivery of important medical information, such as patient outcomes, to effectively reach relevant stakeholders if they want...
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Pharmacovigilance

Expert-driven technologies are continually being implemented into the clinical process to eliminate manual burdens and ramp up efficiencies. AI-enabled automated systems help to remove the barriers that prevent high-quality data and compliance in reporting of clinical events....
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What’s Trending: Milestone Disputes in Life Sciences Litigation

Earlier this month, the ACC hosted an illuminating panel presentation on Life Sciences Litigation: A Look at Milestone Disputes & Recent Trends. Panelists included Lauri Mims and Jennifer Huber, both Partners at Keker Van Nest & Peters, and Ann Byers, Director, Shareholder...
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The Evolving Machine Translation and Translation Memory Landscape for Life Sciences

Over the past 70+ years and to this day, translation technology has changed drastically as more companies are focusing on ways to improve their tech performance with data that is higher quality and customizable. Consequently, life sciences organizations have been...
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Celebrating Women’s History Month with the Women of TransPerfect Life Sciences

March is Women’s History Month, and this year we wanted to take a moment to shine a spotlight on some of the hardworking women who make TransPerfect Life Sciences tick.Women have been historically underrepresented across STEM industries. In fact, according to the US...
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A Comparison Between Document Management Systems (DMS) and Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) for Pharma

CHOOSING THE RIGHT OPTION FOR YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS NEEDSGlobal pharma companies produce and manage a lot of content that is complexly intertwined. To mitigate risk, ensure patient safety, meet regulatory compliance standards, and reduce cycle times for faster drug-to...
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Your Treatment Plan for Curing the App Localization Headache

If translation had a prefrontal cortex, in-country review would create quite the headache. This is particularly true for app localization. App localization is the process of adapting apps and their content to another language in a conceptually equivalent and culturally...
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TransPerfect Life Sciences Director Anne Rhea Selected as VP of HBA’s Paris Chapter

The life sciences industry has historically been a male-dominated field, with women being underrepresented or undervalued. In fact, according to BioSpace’s U.S. Life Sciences 2020 Diversity & Inclusion Report, there were large gaps between women and men in life...
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Is Your Clinical Supply Strategy Ready for EU CTR?

The content in this blog is outdated. For the most recent information on EU CTR, see our latest blog here. OUTLINING IMP LABELLING CHANGES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONSIn May 2014, the European Union Clinical Trial Regulation (EU CTR) No. 536/2014 was passed,...
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An Unlikely Perfect Pairing: Life Sciences & Translation

What Is Life Sciences Translation?Let’s first define the term “translation” within a life sciences context. Life sciences translation is the adaptation of clinical documentation and MedTech materials across different languages. While the concept may seem relatively simple, it...
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The Importance of Over-the-Phone Interpretation for Emergency Services

Imagine calling 911 in a state of crisis at the scene of an emergency situation, only to hear the call handler trying to understand you. And there’s nothing wrong with the connection—the poor communication is only because the person doesn’t speak your language.This kind of...
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Let’s Chat About Chatbots: Part 1

According to Valuates Reports, the conversational AI market is projected to reach $32.62 billion by 2030, up from $5.78 billion in 2020. While it is clear chatbots and their uses are growing, it’s important to understand what a chatbot is exactly, its uses and benefits,...
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Let’s Chat About Chatbots: Part 2

In our last post, we discussed how business are deploying and benefiting from chatbots. Now that you have a basic understanding of what chatbots are and how they work, the next step is implementing them into your business model.For life sciences companies that are unsure...
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What Do You Need to Know About Digital Marketing For Life Sciences in 2022?

There have been many consequences and unexpected changes for marketers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of them (especially in the life sciences arena) is the concept of forced innovation. As an industry, life sciences had traditionally been slow to embrace a...
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Digital Health Tools and Patient Support in China

Digital health has been a trending topic in the life sciences space, and has gained particular momentum due to the COVID-19 outbreak. In 2020, the global digital health market was valued at over $141.8 billion. This is expected to increase in value at a compound...
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Does a One-Stop-Shop Global Translation Provider Truly Exist?

Within the global translation market, there are over 200 global language service providers (LSPs), each reporting annual revenues larger than $1 million. Collectively, the 2020 revenue of all 200 companies equates to approximately $8 billion. All of these LSPs have...
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5 Key Considerations for Implementing Digital Technologies to Support Patients in China

Patient support is a hot topic in the life sciences space. Healthcare providers are consistently looking for ways to improve patient care and better support patients’ needs. In our previous post, we discussed how China was paving the way in leveraging digital health...
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5 Key Benefits of Linking Reporting to Your TMS

In the clinical world, monitoring and reviewing the status of translations across multiple countries has consistently been a challenge. Managing multilingual clinical trial documents such as patient recruitment materials and meeting country-specific regulatory...
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C3 Summit Recap: Shaping the Future of eCOA/ePRO Highlights

The paper to digital migration of eCOAs/ePROs has been quite the journey, particularly in light of COVID-19. The rapid shift to decentralized clinical trials required pharma companies and CROs to adapt data capture techniques quickly while remaining compliant with local...
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How Translation Can Increase Patient Engagement

As clinical research continues to expand across diverse markets and regions, it is imperative for data to reflect the global population. Data that is representative of all patients, including those of diverse backgrounds, ensures that the medical product in development serves...
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How CCMS Helps Healthcare Companies Prepare and Translate Medicare Compliance Content

In the United States, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (abbreviated "CMS" and found online at https://www.cms.gov/) aspires to the following credo:“We pledge to put patients first in all of our programs – Medicaid, Medicare, and the Health Insurance Exchanges. To...
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TransPerfect MT Earns Top Marks at International Machine Translation Competition

As machine translation (MT) technology continues to evolve, it’s increasingly important to look beyond the commercial sphere for the latest in innovation. At TransPerfect, we place special emphasis on the importance of engaging with the research communities specializing in MT...
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Lay Summary Development: The Oregon Trail of Regulatory Writing

The Oregon Trail: one of the most iconic and cherished computer games of all time, filled with boxy graphics, heartache, and the occasional bout of dysentery. Players took on the role of wagon party leader, navigating the unchartered frontier of the Wild West in 1848—all the...
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Digital Strategies for Patient Recruitment

Patient recruitment is a huge spend in the life sciences. In fact, the market is projected to be worth approximately $30 billion USD by 2030.For life science companies conducting clinical trials, adapting patient recruitment strategies, including utilizing digital campaigns,...