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Qforma Awards Computational Thesis Honor 2012

Picture taken by Qforma’s own Tony Giancola On May 4th, Roger Jones, Qforma’s Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, presented the Qforma award for outstanding computational thesis or dissertation to Kurt Brian Ferreira. Kurt, a graduate from the University of New Mexico, was honored for his dissertation titled, “Keeping Checkpoint/Restart Viable for Exascale Systems.” His dissertation evaluates “extreme computers” and details …

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Qforma’s CCO Reveals Silver Lining of Sunshine Act in Upcoming Edition of MD+DI Magazine

Qforma’s Chief Commercial Officer, Al Reicheg, is featured in the current online issue of MD+DI. The article, “Transforming Business: The Silver Lining of the Sunshine Act”, discusses Qforma analytic platforms that accelerate the adoption of important technology advances enabling sales and marketing teams to engage more efficiently and effectively. The Sunshine Act legislation requires most manufacturers with products covered by …

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Qforma’s Chief Commercial Officer to Present at CBI’s 2nd Annual West Coast Forum – May 8, 2012

Qforma’s Chief Commercial Officer, Al Reicheg, will be a presenter at CBI’s 2nd Annual West Coast Forum on Interactions with Thought Leaders and Key Opinion Leaders, May 8th and 9th in San Diego. The Sunshine Act legislation requires most manufacturers with products covered by Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP to disclose virtually all payments to physicians and institutions. This presentation will …

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Qforma Expands its Commercial Team

We are pleased to announce that Mark Feeney has been appointed Vice President of Client Services. Mark brings Qforma clients more than 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry, including expertise in advanced analytics, sales force effectiveness strategies and territory optimization initiatives. Joann Flynn has been selected to lead Qforma’s Business Development Operations unit as Senior Director of …

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Is your speaker bureau ready for the Sunshine, or does it need a redesign?

The Physician Payment Sunshine Provision is scheduled to go into effect, probably sometime this year. In approximately one year, the first disclosure reports mandated by the provision will be due, requiring all pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, hospitals and related healthcare organizations to disclose payments exceeding $10 per program or $100 per year (including travel expenses) provided to physicians and teaching …

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Getting to Know Ian McGuinness

Q: What was your big break? Q: What’s the best and/or worst part of your job? Q: Who is the person you admire most in your area of work? Q: What’s the view like from your office/work area? Q: Where did you go to college? Did it help you prepare for your career? Q: What books are you reading? Q: …

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PharmaVOICE: Top Trends Impacting Salesforces

As CEO of Qforma, Kelly Myers must continually keep his thumb on the pulse of rapidly changing health sciences industry. This real-time intelligence coupled with dynamic analytical data is creating powerful business solutions for Qforma customer’s crucial business questions. In the November/December issue of PharmaVOICE magazine, Kelly Myers outlines “The Top Trends Impacting Salesforces”. The importance of identifying and targeting …

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JP Morgan Healthcare Conference-Highlights from Panel Discussion

“Beyond Meaningful Use: What’s next for Healthcare IT” Panel Discussion The Healthcare IT panel was one of the most interesting discussions at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. With the adoption of EHRs, there is now a push to make data useful in lowering healthcare costs and increasing quality of care for patients. The primary question the panel addressed was, how …

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JP Morgan Healthcare Conference-Day 2

Qforma is attending the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference this week; here are observations from our CCO, Al Reicheg. Its been a fascinating conference. The insights gleaned are many and there is cautious optimism in every break-out room. There is also confirmation from all parties here that thriving will require the industry to embrace more sophisticated sales enablement technologies — a …

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JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

Qforma is attending the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference this week; here are our CEO, Kelly D. Myers’ observations from Day 1 of meetings. Day 1 – Conference Observations Observation 1: There is continued confirmation that health care is evolving from fee for service to a population health model. No matter how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act plays out, …

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