Cognet-X, Inc.: American Home Products Co. Offers Best Pull-through Programs for Managed Care Customers.Business Editors, Health & Medical Writers FEASTERVILLE, Pa.--(BW HealthWire)--May 15, 2002 Influential managed care pharmacy pharmacy, art of compounding and dispensing drugs and medication. The term is also applied to an establishment used for such purposes. Until modern times medication was prepared and dispensed by the physician himself. In the 18th cent. directors ranked American Home For the American mortgage lender, see . The American Home is a center of intercultural exchange located in Vladimir, Russia. The home is designed to model a typical American suburban home and its main focus is the ESL school that provides lessons for Russian students. Products Co. as the best provider of pull-through pull-through a surgical technique for abdominoperineal resection of the rectum. After removal of a segment, the rectum is sutured to the perineal skin, forming a new mucocutaneous junction. Used in the treatment of rectal neoplasms and anal furunculosis. programs in the pharmaceutical industry, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Cognet-X, Inc. research. American Home Products placed first in the first-quarter 2002 ranking period of the twice-yearly Corporate Assessment Total Rankings component of Cognet-X's PAR-Rx (Promotional Assessment Research) Report(TM). The company, which promotes through its Wyeth division, had ranked fourth in the previous reporting cycle in 3Q 2001. Pull-through programs are pharmaceutical company initiatives designed to increase the market share of specific products while reducing pharmaceutical expenditures for managed care organizations. AHP AHP Assistant House Physician. won praise for the ease at which it customized pull-through programs for individual managed care plans and for its sales force organization's ability to effectively carry a strategic message to managed care providers such as physicians, PAR-Rx panelists told Cognet-X. Among pharmacy directors' comments about the AHP effort: "They are willing to work with managed care organizations to customize approaches based on individual client situations. Wyeth also has standard items, which they position as possible add-ons. The Wyeth organization is efficient at evaluating and acting on pull-through proposals." "Willing to assist where needed with pull-through efforts. Good sales force." Aventis Pharma AG, which had placed first in the 3Q 2001 Pull-through Program assessment, took second place in the most recent period, with panelists acknowledging Aventis Pharmaceuticals' personnel as "empowered" and "easy to work with." "Aventis is equipped to support programs from start to finish," commented one PAR-Rx respondent In Equity practice, the party who answers a bill or other proceeding in equity. The party against whom an appeal or motion, an application for a court order, is instituted and who is required to answer in order to protect his or her interests. . Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. placed third, holding onto its Pull-through Programs ranking position from the previous Corporate Assessment period. "We received great support from all levels of the company (management and sales)," one panelist pan·el·ist n. A member of a panel. Noun 1. panelist - a member of a panel panellist panel - a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc told Cognet-X. Said another, "Novartis is willing to try different things and meet or beat our deadlines." Two corporations gained significant ground in this category between the third quarter of 2001 and the first quarter of this year. AstraZeneca PLC's ranking rose from 10th place to fifth place. For Johnson & Johnson, the climb was even more dramatic: from below the top 10 (15th) in 3Q 2001 to ninth in the most recent period. The top 10 corporations for Pull-through Programs in the 1Q 2002 Corporate Assessment ranking period were as follows: 1. American Home Products Co. 2. Aventis Pharma AG 3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. 4. TAP Pharmaceuticals TAP Pharmaceuticals is an Japanese pharmaceutical company. It is a joint venture between Abbott Laboratories and the Japanese Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, formed in 1977. , Inc. 5. AstraZeneca PLC 6. GlaxoSmithKline 7. Pharmacia Corp. 8. Merck & Co., Inc. 9. Johnson & Johnson 10. Forest Laboratories, Inc. About the PAR-Rx Report Cognet-X's PAR-Rx Report is a year-round service that provides the pharmaceutical industry with real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. , Internet-based competitive intelligence on pharmaceutical company promotion to influential managed care pharmacy directors. The Report offers Cognet-X clients the ability to evaluate and analyze variable differences that are critically important to their decision-making process. The Report collects comprehensive data that can be segmented and analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. to provide clients with "21st-Century solutions to their 21st-Century challenges." About Cognet-X Cognet-X offers the pharmaceutical industry market research, consulting and software development that help companies build and refine their relationships with numerous customer bases, including the managed care community. Based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Bucks County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2000, the population was 597,635. A 2004 U.S. Census estimate placed the population at 621,342, making it the fourth most populous county in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Allegheny, and Montgomery , Cognet-X is privately held and employee-owned. For more information on the PAR-Rx Report or other valuable Cognet-X products, please contact Robert E. Houghton (extension 101) at 215/396-8300 or via e-mail at robh@cognetx.com. |
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