Should pharma Companies avoid Mobile apps? and DigitalHealth

Its easier to say current mobile app model is broken, but at same time they still offer advantages atleast in the first few years when a drug enter the market. But the truth is these apps seldom becomes useful for the larger audience.

Study among 1814 physicians in 25 specialties shows often pharmaceutical sales reps show medical information that physicians have seen already through other digital and non-digital channels, and most often those digital channels and content are often not even created by pharma companies

Thats because current Pharma Digital projects often run in isolation to a range of existing patient/physician outreach channels, including: e-mail marketing, rep-triggered emails, web-events (webcasts, of conferences and meetings), videos, self-guided e-detailing, remote detailing, product websites, treatment and diagnostic tools (apps), training courses (CME)

Most pharma companies already uses a central system to manage their websites but nothing of similar nature exists for other digital channels especially the mobile apps. The early concepts of “Digital Factory” where confined to merely outsourcing resources involved in infrastructure and content development to a single IT/BPO vendor. The mobile app Factory need to become essential part of the Digital Pharma 2.0 changes.

Most of the DigitalHealth apps have failed or have seen usage metrics going down after initial hype. Most #digitalhealth apps and #startups fail after initial success because, while we cherish our health we hate being reminded about our sickness.

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