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| Declining Patient Adherence is a Key Concern |
It’s August and many of us are in the midst of budget planning season. We are all aware of the reality facing the life sciences industry—more drugs coming off patent leading to less revenue and increasing costs to develop new treatments. Now more than ever, life science companies are faced with the need to do more with less. For marketers this means maximizing the impact of each program.
My advice to clients is to initially focus on programs that are quick to impact such as patient retention, attracting appropriate patients to consider your product, and maximizing the efficiency of your sales force. Below are a few specific programs you should consider.
Begin with patient compliance and adherence to therapy. It has been reported that compliance to therapy averages between 50% and 65%. There is a tremendous opportunity to increase the number of patients that adhere to treatment. The added benefit is it is much less expensive to keep patients on treatment than it is to attract new patients. To increase patient compliance and adherence consider…
* Patient support programs—these programs focus on patients and help them meet their needs and overcome their challenges. As a pharmaceutical call center we have healthcare-trained representatives available 24/7 and 365 days/year to answer patient questions and provide materials about their condition, treatment, side effects, and even can direct them to reimbursement assistance programs if they need it.
Support DTC marketing efforts and make it easy for patients to act on the awareness built by the advertising campaigns. To increase the effectiveness of your DTC marketing programs consider…
* Adding pharmaceutical call center support to handle inquiries from your advertising campaigns. A pharmaceutical call center we can answer patient questions, and can also provide referrals to physicians and specialists located near the patient’s home or work.
* Including click-to-chat support through websites. Make it easy for patients to ask questions and receive quick replies when they are interacting with one of your websites. Click-to-chat functionality provides real-time interactions, which is a tremendous advantage. As a pharmaceutical call center we can provide healthcare-trained representatives to answer patient questions submitted through websites and can provide links to materials and referrals to physicians and specialists too.
* Adding pharmaceutical call center support to handle inquiries from your advertising campaigns. A pharmaceutical call center we can answer patient questions, and can also provide referrals to physicians and specialists located near the patient’s home or work.
* Including click-to-chat support through websites. Make it easy for patients to ask questions and receive quick replies when they are interacting with one of your websites. Click-to-chat functionality provides real-time interactions, which is a tremendous advantage. As a pharmaceutical call center we can provide healthcare-trained representatives to answer patient questions submitted through websites and can provide links to materials and referrals to physicians and specialists too.
Maximize your field-based sales force so they focus on providing value to healthcare providers. To increase the effectiveness of your field-force consider…
* Partnering with a pharmaceutical call center to drive action with healthcare providers such as booking appointments for sales representatives and enrolling sites in a study or patient support program.
* Shifting administrative tasks such as replenishing samples and overseeing distribution and fulfillment. Our call center representatives reach out to healthcare providers on a regular basis to ensure they have adequate supplies of samples and materials. Additionally, we can oversee database updates and targeting and cleansing activities too.
* Partnering with a pharmaceutical call center to drive action with healthcare providers such as booking appointments for sales representatives and enrolling sites in a study or patient support program.
* Shifting administrative tasks such as replenishing samples and overseeing distribution and fulfillment. Our call center representatives reach out to healthcare providers on a regular basis to ensure they have adequate supplies of samples and materials. Additionally, we can oversee database updates and targeting and cleansing activities too.
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