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Supporting Sales Representatives on the Move: A Study of the Information Needs of Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives

The purpose of the current study is to understand the nature of the challenges that sales representatives face as a result of operating within a highly mobile and heterogeneous work environment. The paper also focuses on how the sales representatives manage their information needs and discusses the properties of mobile support systems that would enable them to work effectively despite their bei...

Physicians-Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives Interactions and Conflict of Interest

Physician-industry relationships have come a long way since serious debates began after a 1990 Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources report on the topic. On one side, the Sun Shine Act of 2007, now a part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that mandates disclosure of payments and gifts to the physicians, has injected more transparency into the relationships, and on the ot...

In the public interest?

Restrictive patenting and licensing for cell-free fetal DNA testing has serious consequences for technology advances and benefits to public health.

Public reporting needs reform!

L ike many of my colleagues, I support President Obama's call to demonstrate value as part of health care reform. One way to do that is through public reporting. The rationale is that public scrutiny of outcomes will motivate the health care " industry " to improve the " product " (outcomes), rather than accelerating value-less economic activity (process) that often benefi ts providers more tha...

Private Property and Public Interest