New (DNA-based) ways of drugs discovery render more (potential) medications for ever more personalized medicines – It impacts their organizational and marketing substantially.

How is the pharmaceutical industry going to support patients effectively, when numbers of targeted patients appear to fall because of (the need of) individualization by personalized medicine?

The global markets challenge the position of the pharmaceutical human businesses with different demands, like ways of pricing, patient orientation and ESG (environment, sustainability, and governance) to name a few. Some of these are kind of developments to which the industry has the competence to adapt easily, as history has witnessed.

What is new is the fact that the industry finds itself in an accumulation of characteristics acquired in its development since its origine. It has brought the industry in the current beneficial shape, its volume and routines of doing business. But that is up to now.

Prices of medicines have gone down in the Netherlands for the last 20 years. The issue of pricing demonstrates how the different stakeholders in care keep each other as prisoner in the same context, rather than as co-stakeholder to the same goal: realizing better care to a lesser cost. Surely a provider of drugs can be hold at a distance to the other stakeholders, suggesting the pharma industry can be overpowered by payers, politicians or other stakeholders. It is a short sighted attitude. Innovation in care cannot do without close collaboration between stakeholder and a common way in dealing with costs and profits.

“Portal me” … It is the way we finally want to go: integrated hard and software all directed at a healthier life in cooperation with professionals, insitutes, family, friends and peers we do want to support me and which I selected.

eHealth – The Introduction..
See in a short overview what ehealth actually is and what steps you may take to apply it to your proper organization.
Furthermore: learn about the ehealth thought lab that might direct you in the right direction to your healthcare future!