The pharma industry is no stranger to standards. Pharmaceutical companies have entire teams devoted to ensuring that all data and content is collected, created, managed, retained, and retired according to regulatory requirements.
Using component-based structured content authoring and having a robust reuse strategy is the only way to produce pharma content at scale. It’s how you produce accurate content efficiently across the enterprise. It’s how you deliver the right content to the right place at the right time, such as when you
The pharma industry has come together to develop technical solutions that speed time-consuming processes and reduce errors that can cause risk to the business and ultimately to patients.
We can no longer afford the costs of traditional, document-based content management in the pharmaceutical industry. We need pharma companies to prioritize content reuse and automation rather than manual, error-prone legacy processes.
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In The Unique Challenges of Pharma Content, we discuss challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies in the creation and management of content.
For centuries, humans have shared information through documents. We’ve used digital files, printed paper, illuminated manuscripts, parchment scrolls, and clay tablets. Regardless of form factor, a document has traditionally been created as a single monolithic entity, authored in the same format in which it was intended to be consumed.
The COVID-19 pandemic put tremendous pressure on drug-development organizations to accelerate product development far beyond anyone’s wildest roadmaps.
Recently, I was working through some challenges with a custom schema that supports the structured content model for one of my pharma customers. I needed to take an existing document and lay it out with both the old schema and the new schema and make sure all the proposed changes
A reuse map is a blueprint for planned content reuse. Planned content reuse means that you identify ahead of time exactly which pieces of content will be reused in a specific output.