Mark Shields to Share Political Insight at Coalition’s D.C. Meeting Sept. 23
Sept. 15, 2014 – Political analyst Mark Shields will be the keynote speaker at the Coalition for Healthcare Communication’s Washington meeting, to be held Sept. 23. Shields, who has covered Washington...
View ArticlePfizer’s Susman to Talk Public/Private Partnerships at Nov. 10 Coalition...
Sept. 19, 2014 – Sally Susman, EVP, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer, will share her insights on the importance of public and private partnerships and discuss the role that Corporate Affairs plays in...
View ArticleCoalition Panel: Data Regulation Focus Shifting from Privacy to Security
Sept. 29, 2014 – The federal government’s efforts to severely limit the ability of industry to gather and use online data have shifted away from data privacy and toward data security, according to...
View ArticleHouse Legislation to Tackle Thorny Off-label Issues
Oct. 20, 2014 – It is looking like Congress may attempt to settle whether companies can speak truthfully about their products’ off-label uses, according to a recent article in Forbes magazine, which...
View ArticleThe Elections Are Over: What Does It Mean for Healthcare?
Oct. 28, 2014 — Join us for a Webinar on Nov. 12! John Kamp, Executive Director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication, will discuss the healthcare policy implications of the 2014 Congressional...
View ArticleCMS Reinterprets Sunshine Act Final Rule to Exclude Certified CME Costs from...
Nov. 3, 2014 – The certified continuing medical educations (CME) community got a “treat” on Oct. 31, when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued revisions to the Physician...
View ArticleKamp: 2014 Election Results Will Have Impact on Medical Marketing
Nov. 14, 2014 – Tax reform, privacy legislation, Sunshine Act implementation and FDA/HHS enforcement and emerging policies all are issues that will be affected in some way by last week’s election,...
View ArticleMM&M Tax Reform Prognosis: Stay Tuned
Dec. 4, 2014 — The looming threat of eliminating the marketing tax deduction as part of overall tax reform may bubble up to the top in 2015, according to a recent article, “The Tax Man Cometh,”...
View ArticleBennet/Hatch MEDTECH Bill to Maximize Benefit of Medical Electronic Data
Dec. 15, 2014 — The “Medical Electronic Data Technology Enhancement for Consumers’ Health (MEDTECH) Act” introduced recently by U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) would...
View ArticleKamp to WSJ’s Pharmalot: CMS Move on CME “One of Biggest Flip Flops” Ever
Dec. 18, 2014 – This week’s release by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of subregulatory guidance on how companies should report payments that are used to fund continuing medical...
View ArticleCoalition: Issues to Watch in 2015
Jan. 13, 2015 — As 2015 gets fully underway, there are several issues that healthcare marketers should be following, according to Coalition for Healthcare Communication Executive Director John Kamp,...
View ArticleFDA Moves Forward with Major Statement Study, Responds to Coalition’s Comments
Jan. 14, 2015 – The FDA is taking the next step toward examining whether shorter, simpler risk disclosures in direct-to-consumer (DTC) television ads – in lieu of the “major statement” of risks now...
View ArticleTransparency Proponents Slam Company-Provider Communication
Jan. 26, 2015 – Although biomedical companies can legally communicate and share information with physicians under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, at least one transparency advocate said at a...
View Article21st Century Cures Discussion Draft Includes Textbook/Reprint Language,...
Jan. 29, 2015 – A 393-page discussion draft of legislation designed to accelerate the 21st Century Cures initiative – released Tuesday, Jan. 27 – includes provisions that would exclude medical...
View ArticleFDA Commissioner Hamburg to Leave FDA
Feb. 5, 2015 – After serving the FDA for six years, Commissioner of Food and Drugs Margaret Hamburg, M.D., will be leaving the agency at the end of March 2015, according to an e-mail sent today from...
View ArticleRevised Guidance on Use of Brief Summary in Print DTC Ads: Full PI Is Not...
Feb. 9, 2015 – In a revised draft guidance document released Feb. 6, the FDA is updating a 2004 version that covers brief summary requirements for consumer-directed print drug ads by calling for...
View ArticleDAA Expands Ad Privacy Controls to Mobile Marketplace
Feb. 26, 2015 – To “bolster both consumer trust and marketplace growth,” the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) yesterday launched two new mobile tools for consumers that provide “transparency and...
View ArticleWho Says You Can’t Fight City Hall?
Commentary from Jack Angel, Coalition for Healthcare Communication Education Foundation Executive Director March 9, 2015 – I am not sure who created the phrase, “you can’t fight city hall,” but it is...
View ArticleCoalition to Sponsor Medical Marketing Pitch Webinar
April 6, 2015 – The Coalition for Healthcare Communication is sponsoring a Webinar May 6 that will highlight both basic and advanced techniques ad agencies can use to successfully sell their services...
View ArticlePhRMA Authors Call for FDA to Establish Off-label Communication Safe Harbor
April 27, 2015 – Because “sharing more information rather than less” about the off-label uses of approved drugs “is critical to healthcare delivery,” the FDA should interpret the Federal Food, Drug...
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