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Insights, updates, and thought leadership on AI-powered MLR review and pharmaceutical marketing compliance.

When Published Scientific Evidence Is Ready — But MLR Review Is Not
August 19, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

When Published Scientific Evidence Is Ready — But MLR Review Is Not

Publication is an important milestone for clinical evidence — but it is not the finish line. 89% of physicians consider medical reprints a valuable resource, yet before an ePrint can reach them it must clear Medical, Legal, and Regulatory review — a manual process that can stall distribution for weeks or months. Here's why ePrints get delayed, and how automating the repetitive pre-review work can help.

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The Claims Library as a Component of Product Liability and False Claims Act Defenses
August 5, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

The Claims Library as a Component of Product Liability and False Claims Act Defenses

Life sciences companies are facing increased exposure to product liability litigation and government enforcement. In this environment, a well-governed Claims Library is more than an MLR efficiency tool — it can serve as an enterprise record connecting claims to their evidence, approved context, safety requirements, and review history.

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SecureCHEK AI Earns SOC 2 Type II Recertification
July 27, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

SecureCHEK AI Earns SOC 2 Type II Recertification

In pharma and medtech, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance aren't just checkboxes — they're mission critical. That's why we're proud to announce that SecureCHEK AI has successfully recertified for SOC 2 Type II, demonstrating that our security practices hold up under sustained, independent scrutiny cycle after cycle.

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Governance in Pharma: Why It Is More Than Compliance and the Foundation for Commercialization Readiness
July 13, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Governance in Pharma: Why It Is More Than Compliance and the Foundation for Commercialization Readiness

When most pharmaceutical organizations hear the word "governance," they think about compliance. But governance serves a much broader purpose — it is the framework that ensures communications are accurate, consistent, substantiated, and traceable to approved evidence, and the foundation for commercialization readiness.

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Claims Libraries Are No Longer Optional in the Age of AI
June 24, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Claims Libraries Are No Longer Optional in the Age of AI

AI is transforming how pharma, biotech, and medtech organizations create, review, and distribute content — but a more important question often gets overlooked: what information is the AI using? Learn why governed claims libraries are becoming essential for compliant AI workflows.

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What Is a Pharma Claims Library — And Why MLR Teams Can't Afford to Build One Manually
June 18, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

What Is a Pharma Claims Library — And Why MLR Teams Can't Afford to Build One Manually

A pharma claims library is the centralized, searchable source of truth behind every compliant MLR submission. Learn what it is, why manual maintenance inevitably fails, and how an AI-powered library builds and maintains itself automatically.

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Future-Proof Your Life Science Commercial Data Before Launch
May 26, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Future-Proof Your Life Science Commercial Data Before Launch

I had the opportunity to speak with Mark Henning, Founder and CTO of 2516 Technologies, about the evolving role of AI in life sciences and enterprise operations. A central theme of our conversation was that AI readiness and compliance readiness begin with the underlying data foundation.

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Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Access Increases the Need for Content Checking
March 5, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Access Increases the Need for Content Checking

Healthcare delivery is undergoing a structural shift as direct-to-consumer (DTC) access to medications expands rapidly. Patients are no longer relying exclusively on traditional in-office prescribing and pharmacy dispensing models.

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The Basics Aren't Boring. It's Where Most Compliance Risk Actually Lives.
March 3, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

The Basics Aren't Boring. It's Where Most Compliance Risk Actually Lives.

The new edition of the Pharmaceutical Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book just dropped—edited by Howard Dorfman, a recognized regulatory, legal, and compliance expert. And if you've spent any time in medical, legal, or regulatory review, your first reaction might be: Do we really need another compliance book?

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FDA Untitled Letters Keep Coming: Enforcement Activity Continues into 2026
February 16, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

FDA Untitled Letters Keep Coming: Enforcement Activity Continues into 2026

Beginning in September 2025, FDA significantly increased its enforcement activities related to pharmaceutical advertising, issuing dozens of Untitled Letters criticizing company promotional messaging.

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Agentic AI in Life Sciences: What It Really Means — and Why It Matters
January 29, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Agentic AI in Life Sciences: What It Really Means — and Why It Matters

Agentic AI has quickly become one of the most talked-about concepts in artificial intelligence. But in highly regulated environments—like pharmaceutical promotion, medical communications, and scientific exchange, the term needs far more precision than catchy headlines provide.

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The ABCs of AI Technology: Why Foundational AI Literacy Will Become a Requisite for Business Success
January 13, 2026•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

The ABCs of AI Technology: Why Foundational AI Literacy Will Become a Requisite for Business Success

I was inspired to write this blog to help the industry adopt a shared baseline education on how AI works in the context of promotional review, specifically speeding up the MLR review process without sacrificing accuracy.

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FDA Crackdown 2025: How to Stay Compliant as Enforcement Accelerates
November 10, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

FDA Crackdown 2025: How to Stay Compliant as Enforcement Accelerates

For all of us working in life sciences, the ripple effect of what happened in September with the FDA's recent wave of enforcement activity, driven by a new HHS directive, caught the entire industry off guard. That's why I can't wait to moderate a special one-hour webinar on November 20 at 2:00 p.m. ET in partnership with BIO.

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Unsung Heroes: The Coordinators Who Keep MLR Running
October 30, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Unsung Heroes: The Coordinators Who Keep MLR Running

The coordinator role rarely gets the spotlight but quietly keeps the entire promotional review machine moving. Coordinators sit at the intersection of marketing ambition and regulatory precision — the unsung heroes who make sure every asset, every claim, every footnote moves through the process without derailing.

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Momentum Promotional Review Summit: FDA Enforcement and Regulatory Response
October 15, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Momentum Promotional Review Summit: FDA Enforcement and Regulatory Response

I spent an invigorating two days attending the Momentum 6th Annual Promotional Review Summit in Philadelphia on October 13 – 14, and there was a lot to discuss. The conference focused on evaluating strategies for measuring effectiveness, streamlining workflow, and ensuring compliance in the wake of the recent FDA Enforcement.

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Partnerships Between AI Software Providers and Their Clients Increase Marketing Efficiency Through Superior Software
October 14, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Partnerships Between AI Software Providers and Their Clients Increase Marketing Efficiency Through Superior Software

Pharma and Med Device companies are increasingly looking to automate the most repetitive and time-consuming business-critical marketing tasks using AI. Partnerships between AI software providers and their clients are extremely important.

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Why Claims Libraries Demonstrate Good Faith Efforts Amidst FDA Crackdowns
October 6, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Why Claims Libraries Demonstrate Good Faith Efforts Amidst FDA Crackdowns

I had the pleasure of interviewing regulatory, compliance and legal expert, Howard Dorfman, JD, about the recent crackdowns on promotion by the FDA's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP). Claims libraries rose to the top as an effective approach to mitigate risk and strengthen trust with regulators.

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FDA Crackdown Intensifies Need to Harness the Power of AI
September 22, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

FDA Crackdown Intensifies Need to Harness the Power of AI

With FDA cracking down on promotional materials, there's never been a better time to implement AI-solutions that precheck content to ensure compliance with government regulations. AI innovation must be tightly aligned with business needs and corporate readiness.

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Technology Building Blocks To Overcome GenAI-only Hallucinations
September 9, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Technology Building Blocks To Overcome GenAI-only Hallucinations

There's no shortage of content out there warning about the risks of using GenAI on its own—especially when it's not grounded in structured data. We've seen firsthand how hallucinations can slip through even the most polished outputs when there's no logical framework behind the words.

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Don't Fear AI, Manage It.
September 4, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Don't Fear AI, Manage It.

Dennis Rodman, leading expert in GxP systems and digital validation, shares his insights on AI. His core thesis: the rigorous principles used to control sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities can and should be directly applied to managing AI models.

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Can You Trust What Your AI Prechecking Solution Is Telling You?
August 13, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Can You Trust What Your AI Prechecking Solution Is Telling You?

Given the importance of ensuring confidence in findings from AI-powered prechecking solutions, we've put together a list of questions that should be on every company's list as they evaluate vendors with the objective of greater MLR efficiency.

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Pharmaceutical Tech Award Recognizes SecureCHEK AI Impact on Improving Marketing Efficiencies
August 5, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Pharmaceutical Tech Award Recognizes SecureCHEK AI Impact on Improving Marketing Efficiencies

SecureCHEK AI has received the 2024 Pharmaceutical Technology Excellence Award in multiple categories in recognition of the AI software's ability to enhance the speed and capacity for content development and MLR review.

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What Do You Want To Accomplish With AI Technology?
July 16, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

What Do You Want To Accomplish With AI Technology?

It's important to home in on what you want to accomplish with AI technology. Do you want to increase editor and coordinator productivity so more materials can be checked prior to MLR review? The impact of automation is immediate and measurable.

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New AI Health Coach Company Puts Fine Point on Personalized Content for Pharma
July 1, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

New AI Health Coach Company Puts Fine Point on Personalized Content for Pharma

Thrive AI Health has committed to helping people boost their wellness outcomes using AI to make suggestions about sleeping, eating, and exercising. Despite the positive impact of personalization, pharmaceutical marketers continue to grapple with scaling this strategy.

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Know That All GenAI is NOT Created Equal
June 18, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Know That All GenAI is NOT Created Equal

GenAI tools create industrial-scale slop, defined as low-quality, inaccurate content that may look polished but is riddled with errors. Content generated through GenAI queries can frequently deliver flawed outputs including misleading efficacy claims and fabricated citations.

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SecureCHEK AI Accelerates Label Updates for Promotional Materials
June 12, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

SecureCHEK AI Accelerates Label Updates for Promotional Materials

Label updates can be a heavy lift for pharmaceutical companies and their promotional agencies which is why SecureCHEK AI offers an automated label update process using artificial intelligence to speed materials to market and ensure quality control.

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Is GenAI Data Disappearing, Putting Content in Crisis?
June 3, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Is GenAI Data Disappearing, Putting Content in Crisis?

A study published by The Data Provenance Organization has raised questions about the availability of content for building out AI. The Washington Post says data is drying up based on the first, large-scale audit of the web sources underlying the massive training of modern, general-purpose AI.

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5 Steps For Successful AI Pilots To Increase MLR Efficiency
May 23, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

5 Steps For Successful AI Pilots To Increase MLR Efficiency

If you have decided to focus your AI pilot on increasing MLR efficiency, there are five smart steps to ensure success. MLR efficiency is an excellent use case because it represents a big pain point in business today.

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Feel Confident That MLR Review Delivers on the 80/20 Rule
May 27, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Feel Confident That MLR Review Delivers on the 80/20 Rule

The 80/20 rule (also known as the Pareto Principle) states that roughly 20% of efforts drive 80% of the results. In the context of AI, this means that a small subset of use cases will drive measurable business value for an organization.

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Collaborate With a Vendor That is Security Savvy
May 27, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Collaborate With a Vendor That is Security Savvy

In the pharmaceutical and medical device industries security, privacy, and regulatory compliance aren't just checkboxes — they're mission critical. That's why we're proud of our SOC 2 Type II certification. Your data is in safe hands.

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Start By Building a Centralized Claims Library
May 14, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Start By Building a Centralized Claims Library

Message consistency and compliance in the fast-moving world of prescription product marketing is imperative. With the growing use of generative AI in content development, teams are under more pressure than ever to get messaging right and in compliance.

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Do You Know How Your AI Software Vendor Keeps Your Data Safe and Secure?
May 1, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Do You Know How Your AI Software Vendor Keeps Your Data Safe and Secure?

If you are evaluating software companies to automate marketing processes and shorten MLR, inquire whether they have a SOC 2 certification. SOC 2 is an impartial attestation that a company has a robust cybersecurity compliance framework.

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The Value of Prechecking Software in Streamlining MLR—But Only if It Combines Analytical and GenAI
April 23, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

The Value of Prechecking Software in Streamlining MLR—But Only if It Combines Analytical and GenAI

Prechecking software can reduce MLR reviews. But how do you choose the one that's right for you? The first criterion on your shopping list must be accuracy, which means a pre-checking solution that's robust enough to be up to the task.

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AI and its Role in Faster MLR Review
April 24, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

AI and its Role in Faster MLR Review

The need for increasing amounts of content across more channels means it cannot be managed manually. Innovative companies are exploring the utilization of AI for prechecking content pre-MLR submission to ensure it is accurate, on-brand, and compliant with business standards.

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ISI Validation: Taking the Tedium Out of Completing a Critical Task
April 1, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

ISI Validation: Taking the Tedium Out of Completing a Critical Task

Proofing the ISI for format and text deviations is as tedious as it is critical to ensure promotional materials are in compliance with government regulations. That's why an AI software solution that automatically and instantly detects deviations in the ISI is welcome news.

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Amplify the Performance of Veeva to Accelerate MLR Review
March 10, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Amplify the Performance of Veeva to Accelerate MLR Review

SecureCHEK AI, Inc. is proud to announce that our company is now a Veeva AI Partner focused on delivering seamless integration with Veeva PromoMats to amplify efficiency for mutual pharmaceutical and medical device customers.

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Low-Risk Entry Point for AI Implementation
March 25, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Low-Risk Entry Point for AI Implementation

The March issue of PM360 captures AI's impact on pharma by sharing perspectives from industry experts. Starting small is always a smart idea when implementing AI. One low-risk baby step: zero in on use cases where it makes business sense to replace manual and repetitive marketing tasks with automation.

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2025: The Year To Figure Out AI
February 3, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

2025: The Year To Figure Out AI

I was chatting with two industry veterans, colleagues, and dear friends of mine in the healthcare marketing space. They shared a recent IBM report with me that found 70% of C-suite executives don't believe their organizations are ready to integrate Gen-AI into their companies.

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Eliminating the Need to Manually Check Abbreviations for Accuracy
January 29, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Eliminating the Need to Manually Check Abbreviations for Accuracy

There are hundreds of medical abbreviations commonly used in pharmaceutical marketing, encompassing terms related to drug administration, dosage frequencies, medical conditions, and clinical trial data. Manually checking the accuracy of these abbreviations is tedious and time-consuming.

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Efficient Path for Successful AI Pilots to Validate New Prechecking Technology
January 15, 2025•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Efficient Path for Successful AI Pilots to Validate New Prechecking Technology

Our company executes dozens of pilots and has honed the process in partnerships with the pharmaceutical clients looking to validate the use of SecureCHEK AI in their organization. This White Paper provides three imperatives for executing a successful pilot.

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Building Blocks for Increasing MLR Efficiency with Artificial Intelligence
February 26, 2024•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Building Blocks for Increasing MLR Efficiency with Artificial Intelligence

The pharmaceutical industry and its promotional agencies have been prechecking content for decades. A manual process leads to more comments, rewrites and re-reviews by increasing the likelihood of errors and redundancies.

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AI is Copilot for Enhancing Agency Efficiencies: OEM Group Perspective (Part 2)
October 23, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

AI is Copilot for Enhancing Agency Efficiencies: OEM Group Perspective (Part 2)

Shane McKinnon, Founder of OEM Group, has outlined several simple, low barrier ways to start experimenting with different AI based applications and use cases that act as an extension, or copilot to optimize human effort.

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AI is Copilot for Enhancing Agency Efficiencies: OEM Group Perspective (Part 1)
October 9, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

AI is Copilot for Enhancing Agency Efficiencies: OEM Group Perspective (Part 1)

Shane McKinnon, Founder of OEM Group, provides an outlook on AI in general, what it means for the marketing industry, and ways business leaders can start experimenting with different use cases.

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Leading Agency Overcomes Potential Barriers For Personalization at Scale with AI
September 18, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Leading Agency Overcomes Potential Barriers For Personalization at Scale with AI

Tristan Reid, the Engagement Director at Ward7, highlights that traditional agency production models lead to escalating costs with increasing number of assets, presenting a challenge for clients aiming to create large volumes of hyper-personalized materials.

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Why Generative AI Can Make Marketing Harder
August 28, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Why Generative AI Can Make Marketing Harder

Does generative AI make content marketing easier or just hard in a different way? This blog, written by Aprimo CEO Erik Huddleston, addresses the challenges with context and metadata, budgeting complexity and safety/compliance.

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Demystifying GPT and AI Language Models: What They Mean For You
July 31, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Demystifying GPT and AI Language Models: What They Mean For You

Our partner, Aprimo, shares this informative perspective on the pros and cons of generative AI to demystify GPT and AI language models. Organizations must establish robust governance frameworks to mitigate risks and challenges.

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Aprimo and SecureCHEK AI Partner to Transform Content Operations in Pharmaceutical Industry
May 17, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Aprimo and SecureCHEK AI Partner to Transform Content Operations in Pharmaceutical Industry

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Aprimo, a leading provider of content operations technology, to revolutionize content operations in the pharmaceutical industry.

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AI and its Role in Faster MLR Review
April 24, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

AI and its Role in Faster MLR Review

The need for increasing amounts of content across more channels means it cannot be managed manually. The surge in content creation is straining resources while pressure mounts to do more with less–and do it faster.

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When Review Teams are Business Partners, Internal ROI Increases
March 13, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

When Review Teams are Business Partners, Internal ROI Increases

At the annual DIA Ad/Prom Conference, a panel on Innovation in Promotional Review featured a healthcare advertising agency presenting its findings on SecureCHEK AI software.

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Innovation in Promotional Review for MLR Reviewers and Pharma Marketers
February 20, 2023•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

Innovation in Promotional Review for MLR Reviewers and Pharma Marketers

There is more content than ever coming into MLR. Everyone is focused on personalization, content enablement, and modular content. The surge in content creation strains resources while pressure mounts to do more with less—and do it faster.

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"MLR Magic" Insights: Experts share ways to optimize Medical, Legal, and Regulatory review
December 29, 2022•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

"MLR Magic" Insights: Experts share ways to optimize Medical, Legal, and Regulatory review

The current MLR process is well known to be complicated in the face of increasing content volume and personalization demands. During a recent industry webinar, a panel of experts delved into these challenges and the role of technology in improving the process.

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How Moneyball Strategies Can Revolutionize Your Pharma Marketing
August 30, 2022•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

How Moneyball Strategies Can Revolutionize Your Pharma Marketing

Twenty years later the Moneyball principles have become part of today's paradigm for business transformation. Pharma can learn from these clear-cut strategies for changing the game using data analytics, predictive analysis, and artificial intelligence.

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The Role of AI in Modern Marketing for 2022
January 10, 2022•Ilyssa Levins-Pimienta

The Role of AI in Modern Marketing for 2022

Despite vast advancements in technology, drug and medical device companies still use a manual process to create claims libraries, check promotional content for FDA compliance, and implement label changes. Make 2022 the year your company transforms an old-fashioned manual content review process into a modern marketing machine using artificial intelligence.

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