SUMMARY: Several online providers promise that they can reach physicians with your message, but I would argue that numbers are only important if they can be measured against key brand objectives. Ask your target audience what THEY use and how they use it to understand each platform’s relevance.
Category Archive: Marketing to health care professionals
SUMMARY: Doctors said they were dissatisfied were marketing emails (46%), telephone sales calls with sales reps (42%), and both webinars and websites (each at 39%) from pharma companies, according to Indegene. That should, however, not discourage the use of email to HCPs. If you follow some basic testing, email can be an effective tool for communicating information.
QUICK READ: Reaching physicians with key brand messages isn’t hard, but the online landscape has become crowded with many players. By far, Medscape is still number one in physician reach, and medical journal advertising has been proven to result in more branded Rx’s.
QUICK READ: Recent research from Zoom Rx saying that digital interactions with HCPs are myopic and don’t apply to the heavily segmented HCP audience. The future of reaching HCPS is both on and off-line depending on the product, health condition, and specialty.
OPENING: Pharma companies are starting to embrace digital marketing forced, in large part, by changes brought on by the pandemic. There is, however, a difference between an evolutionary move to digital and a revolutionary move to digital. Digital marketing is becoming a valuable tool. But the reality is, health care relies on significant in-person engagements, and digital is only one part of the equation.
SUMMARY: Digital marketing is not a tactic. It’s a mindset. With the changes to healthcare on the horizon, the time has come to start building digital capabilities in all areas of company functions.
IN SUMMARY: When patients return to doctor’s offices will HCP’s have time to go online with every drug company that requests an online detail? Will patients be happy with telehealth once they feel it’s safe to return to physicians’ offices?
COVID-19 has disrupted traditional healthcare person-to-person communication and accelerated digital options, such as telehealth and remote patient-clinician contacts, digital therapeutics that deliver remote patient monitoring, and interventions through the use of software. But is this really the future? Medscape conducted some research in May to find out.