What do Microsoft, Aetna, Twitter, IBM, Ogilvy Consulting, Biogen and dozens of healthcare startups have in common? All appear in discussions about issues at the nexus of healthcare and technology in Icons.Health, a new video series produced by AbelsonTaylor.

Pixium Vision announced that the bioelectronics company’s subretinal PRIMA system met the endpoints of the feasibility study, at interim 6 months follow-up after implantation and rehabilitation for patients with advanced dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

GeoVax Labs and Enesi Pharma announced a collaboration to develop solid-dose needle-free vaccine formulations utilizing GeoVax’s novel MVA-VLP vaccine platform in combination with Enesi’s ImplaVax device and formulation technology.

2018 was filled with a number of significant developments for healthcare marketers. The rising demand to respect individual privacy rights dominated conversations surrounding digital marketing, as did the increasing importance of using data-driven email marketing tools to increase physician engagement and retention.

Leadership representing the 2018 Manny Award agency and network winners and finalists share their views on various healthcare industry trends and developments.

For the 11th year, Med Ad News selected new Pharmaceutical Marketing Ventures to Watch that could change the way pharmaceutical products are marketed and sold.

Pharma continues to lag behind the consumer space in the use of mobile marketing technologies, but the steady advance of consumer tech giants Google and Amazon into the healthcare space means that the industry will have to adapt the tools of AI, voice and chatbots into their marketing, just as their consumer brethren already have.

Intouch Solutions’ Sean Hartigan and Heartbeat’s David Sakadelis say their pharma clients are skittish about the use of chatbots and AI, with an understanding of these technologies more influenced by the grim future of Skynet in the “Terminator” movie franchise rather than the reality of where AI is right now.

In the initial excitement over the possibilities of mobile marketing, pharma rushed to create its own apps. And then these apps languished.

For a while now there has been a heated debate surrounding hybrid and closed loop insulin systems.