by Val Swisher | Jun 6, 2022
The Company Core Data Sheet (CDS or CCDS) is one of the most important documents a pharmaceutical company creates. The CDS is a working document that contains information about the pharmaceutical product. It includes information from multiple sources, such as clinical...
by Val Swisher | May 16, 2022
Raise your hand if you think content silos are ever going away. Yah. I didn’t raise mine either. After decades (literally) of talking about silos, calmly and not so calmly explaining to people why they are problematic, and advocating for their demise, I have come to...
by Regina Lynn Preciado | Jan 31, 2022
In The Unique Challenges of Pharma Content, we discuss challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies in the creation and management of content. Here is a short list: Takes too long to create, approve, and deliver content Cannot leverage or reuse content across...
by Val Swisher | Jul 12, 2021
EU Medical Device Regulation (2017/745) and In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (2017/746) went into effect in May 2021, after about a year’s delay due to COVID-19. Medical device manufacturers have known about the new regulations for years and have been working to meet...
by Val Swisher | Jun 30, 2021
I’ve started to notice a trend in structured authoring. In the past, almost all of our customers who implemented structured authoring were established companies with a lot of legacy content. And most of the writers were very technical. Rarely did I see young companies...
by Max Swisher | May 27, 2021
You manage a team of content creators and you’ve decided to embrace structured authoring. Congratulations! Perhaps you’ve heard that a structured environment will help your team create content that is consistent, modular, and reusable. Maybe your manager told you to...