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Maximizing Learning on a Budget: 3 Cost-Effective Strategies for Clinical Education and L&D in Medical Device Companies

Are you struggling to provide high-quality training to your clinical education and L&D teams while keeping costs low? As the medical device industry continues to evolve and grow, it’s more important than ever for medical device companies to invest in learning and development ...
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Anticipate Your Language Needs: The Ultimate Clinical Trial Translations Checklist

“Content is king” is cliché marketing jargon, but in clinical product development, the cliché holds true. Clinical product development is an elaborate endeavor executed through a complex web of processes that are in large part accomplished through various document and...
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Driving Success in Omnichannel Content Strategies for Global and Local Markets

Introduction:   In the rapidly evolving landscape of life sciences marketing, implementing an effective omnichannel strategy is crucial to driving positive customer experiences and increasing engagement. By seamlessly integrating multiple channels and considering the...
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IMP Labeling: EU CTR Transition Considerations

The European Union Clinical Trial Regulation (EU CTR) went live on January 31, 2022. The first-year transition period ended on January 30, 2023, so using the Clinical Trial Information System (CTIS) is now mandatory for all initial submissions of interventional clinical trials...
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3 Automation Outcomes for Pharmacovigilance and Safety Teams

With the continued implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems into the clinical process, automated data management systems have helped to alleviate manual burdens on safety teams to focus on more critical tasks. The goal at present is to enhance data...
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Intellectual Property (IP) Strategies to Consider for Life Sciences Start-Ups

Intellectual property (IP) is one of the most valuable assets a life sciences innovator or start-up has. While these companies are often built on the foundations of successful pre-clinical studies, they face a substantial amount of time between obtaining regulatory approvals and...
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Electronic Product Information – Everything You Need to Know

One of the latest initiatives being spearheaded by EMA is publishing ePI, or electronic product information. In some respects, the pharma industry has lagged behind other major industries in terms of how documentation and critical information is relayed to the end patient. Due to...
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Pharma Digital Marketing: Trends for Customer Engagement

Trends for Pharma Digital Marketing All 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 sources...
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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 a...
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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 to...
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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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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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A Comparison Between Document Management Systems (DMS) and Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) for Pharma

CHOOSING THE RIGHT OPTION FOR YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS Global 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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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, and...
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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 of...
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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 annual...
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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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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 do...
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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...