Is e-lectronic the best description of where we are headed?

12/10/2000

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Is e-lectronic the best description of where we are headed?

e-CRFs are boring.Important, yesNecessary, yesBoring, YES!

Porting paper to computersis NOT the industry’sbiggest challenge.

Am I in the right seminar?Strategic Planning?Proteomics?Disease eradication?

What’s wrong?

Sales and R&D Growth

Marginal Sales/Detail* (U.S. Dollars)

How’d we pull that off and keep margins up?

Drugs are more selective and more potent. COPS are down, funding R&D and S&M increases. Sustainable?

Networks are different

The third factor: Society.

International Price ComparisonFor 100 tablets of 150 mg of Zantac

Healthcare Processes are Wasteful

Physicians are Changing

Are physicians the biggest force that is changing?

Consumers are changing

Networks are differentCan they change what’s “inside” as well?

But they don't just parallel process, they innovate as well

Forbes, Aug 10, 1998re: Open Software Development

" mechanisms for coordination"

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