Developing a culture of communication and alignment between marketing and IT departments is not a typical conversation topics at digital pharma conferences, but that was all changed today when VP of Marketing Philip Freed and Sr. Manager of IT David Morrissey (both of Maquet) went head-to-head to talk about best ways to communicate and collaborate when deploying new technology solutions.
Below are two slides that capture the points and counterpoints from the discussion.
“Don’t forget metrics. Determine them up front. Track them. Communicate them.“
- Joyce Ercolino, CSL Behring (@jearch)
Kicking off after lunch, Chad Bellentine, Product Manager for Upper GI Marketing at Takeda, shared a small case study on a marketing pilot that his team and partners deployed. Chad shared specific goals that the DEXILANT brand team was hoping to achieve in they pilot:
- Educate patients on their acid reflux disease and its symptoms and the unique benefits of DEXILANT
- Drive patient-doctor discussion about DEXILANT among pre-qualified GERD sufferers
With those goals in mind, the team launched a pilot program called Quality Conversations. The program was designed to take patients through a flow of information and call-to-actions.
- Attract patients to an email touchpoint program.
- Align the right patients to the most relevant offers
- Activate patients through targeted messages and channels
- Convert patients to DEXILANT by educating and engaging on disease state and DEXILANT’s value proposition
DEXILANT’s Quality Conversations Pilot program
The first step was rolling out the pilot program. The goals were to develop and approve a library of brand resources and then build a communication engine to disseminate that content. In the DEXILANT program, there was a very specific program flow they hoped to achieve:
1) Deploy an email series that prompts a patient to learn more about DEXILANT through a microsite.
2) Once the patient access the microsite, they are encourage to download a conversation guide for a consult with their physician.
3) With the download guide in hand, the patients were then encouraged to print a coupon for DEXILANT.
Through this program flow, a patient was walking into their doctor’s office with information on the brand, a conversation guide, and a coupon for their prescription. While DEXILANT’s MLR team wouldn’t allow for specific numbers to be shared, the marketing team found that overall prescription number increased and noted excellent prescription rates for those patient who entered the top of their funnel by receiving the email series.
Chad recommended a framework and tips for running a marketing pilot.
Goal: Set performance criteria and expectations upfront.
Time: Actively participate in evaluating the real-time analytics and making optimization decisions or delegate this function back to your marketing partners.
Optimization: In addition to overall program results, explore specific areas in the overall flow where your program isn’t functioning to identify additional opportunities to optimize for better results.
With the support of our inVentiv Health family and all our colleagues at GSW Worldwide, we’re featuring our patient education platform iQ.fluent at Digital Pharma East 2012.
A web-based platform that allows brands and treatment teams to become partners in patient education, Fluent allows a brand to create a library of content (branded on non-branded) that physicians can access, choose the most relevant tidbits, and assemble into a booklet to be delivered digitally to a specific patient or group of patients.
We highly encourage you to visit iQfluent.com for more information. You’ll find a breakdown of features, ways to get receive a demo and even tech specs for the IT enthusiast.
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