The Missing Piece in Biotech Puzzle: Early Commercial Product Planning

 
Biotech companies are a critical element of the pharmaceutical business, delivering life-saving and quality-of-life improving medicines and medical devices to patients.  They can be considered a beating heart of innovation, filling up many of productivity and innovation gaps at pharmaceutical companies. A broad array of their novel products and discoveries brings hope for patients suffering from previously untreatable conditions and diseases. Small biotech organizations tend to operate with very few experts onboard, prioritizing clinical development and regulatory expenditures to reach their value creation goals: achieving proof-of-concept and obtaining regulatory approval. Historically, commercial aspects were not at the top of the biotech’s priorities. Now, more than ever, biotech needs to get commercial aspects of drug development right. Regulatory approval of the new drug is a significant milestone; however, without commercial/market access & pricing strategy in place, it may lead to a failure further down the road.

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Know the Pharma Basics: USA Healthcare

 

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The United States (US) has a population of over 324 million people and one of the most complex healthcare systems in the world. US health care system is in a constant state of change. The United States spends the most on health care per person — $9,237 – according to two new papers published in the journal The Lancet ($3.2 trillion total in 2015). For comparison, the global spending on health in 2014 was US$9·21 trillion. Continue reading