Company Profiles for 2018 Agency Fair Exhibitors
Please see below a list of companies that exhibiting at the BHBIA Annual Conference 2018.
Adelphi Research
Interested in novel ways to apply Neuroscience to research? Like games? Like Chocolate? If yes, come and see us!
Adelphi Research UK is a healthcare insight agency that blends robust primary market research with a consultancy approach. We offer innovative solutions to our clients and help them to think differently.
We are passionate about engaging both respondents and clients through exciting research and inspiring deliverables.
This year we’ll be showcasing our implicit associations and SMRapproaches as well as ways of moving people away from stereotypical responses using inventive gamificationtechniques.
Get in touch to find out more.
(Stand 7)
BHBIA
Come to the BHBIA stand to find out about all the training and events that are coming up during the rest of 2018, and the other benefits available to you as a BHBIA member. You can also find out more about the ‘Reversing the decline in HCP participation’ (MR Response Rates) initiative and the joint BHBIA/EphMRA Fieldwork Forum ‘Screener Design and Best Practice’ guidance, which provides practical tips to support the Response Rate Task Force’s key recommendations. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, members of the Board will be on hand over the course of the two days and would love to hear from you.
BHBIA Ethics & Compliance
Meet members of the Ethics & Compliance Committee and let us know what issues you are currently facing – for example what, if any, are your concerns in the final countdown to implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the future changes to adverse event reporting when AEs are collected directly from patients/consumers? You can put your specific questions to us, in confidence, and we’ll answer them straightaway if we can, or come back to you shortly after the event with a response. You will be able to see copies of the latest in our series of GDPR Guides, as well as our Guidelines for the Use of Secondary Data and market research ‘Quick Guides’. We invite you to let us know what you think are the priorities that the Ethics & Compliance Committee should be tackling in 2018-19, as we are here to represent all BHBIA members’ interests.
Black Swan Analysis
https://blackswan-analysis.co.uk/
Black Swan Analysis is an agile agency that specialises in delivering robust valuations and commercialisation plans for the healthcare industry. With the flexibility to approach complex issues, and the capability to leverage our internal expertise, we are best positioned to help find your optimal solution.
Our areas of expertise include forecasting excellence and patient segmentation which are supported by an array of proprietary tools such as comprehensive epidemiology & pricing databases.
Our philosophy at Black Swan is to create a collaborative environment that enables us to provide an unparalleled level of satisfaction & quality to our clients.
(Stand 5)
BOBI Awards
www.bhbia.org.uk/bobiawards/overviewofthebobiawards.aspx
Would you like to get the lowdown on this year’s BOBI entries? Do you want to know more about the winners? The BOBI area at Conference is the place to go. There will be a poster display in the Palace Suite Foyer with details of all the finalists, and you can visit our stand to take a look at highlights from some of the entries in the Analyst Team of the Year competition and to see the videos produced by some of the Agency of the Year finalists. Look out for BOBI Committee members wearing special badges and feel free to collar us with your questions, feedback or suggestions for next year.
Creation
CREATION have worked in the healthcare sector for nearly two decades. In 2012, we developed CREATION Pinpoint – a unique technology platform allowing us to isolate conversations among healthcare professionals on social media. The data is then turned into customised market research insights used to improve engagement with healthcare professionals both on and offline.
We help clients:
• Know which healthcare professionals are leading online conversation in their therapy area
• Tailor messaging based on what is being said around their/competitor products
• Identify where to engage with HCPs online
• Create resources HCPs will share
• Prepare answers to identified unmet needs
• Learn how HCPs are responding to industry news
(Stand 2)
Elma Research
Elma Research is a wellspring of ideas, a professional explorer eager to uncover Insights. An innovator armed with creative and bold thinking, we have been by your side when you make the big decision since 2008. Unique and always on the go, because rationality will only take you from A to B, imagination will take you everywhere.
(Stand 21)
Fieldwork International
www.fieldworkinternational.com
Fieldwork International has been at the forefront of healthcare data collection, delivering to clients on a global scale since 1992. Our Field Services team has extensive industry knowledge and unparalleled understanding of therapeutic areas, conducting online, in-person and telephone interviews with Healthcare Professionals and patients across 46 countries for over 25 years. Our services include qualitative and quantitative fieldwork planning and execution, augmented by our global online physician panel and broad portfolio of expert healthcare services to meet our client’s research needs.
(Stand 9)
Impact health
Impact Health is a full service healthcare market research agency.
Our dedicated, experienced senior team offers global bespoke qual and quantitative solutions to help you answer your most pressing business questions and build an insight-driven plan for continued success.
Our sector expertise, active listening and strategic thinking on each project are the reasons our clients value working with us. After our biologic strategy talk last year, we invite you to drop by our stall and join us in debating sustainability in the biosimilars market and how the long term ripple effects of today’s decisions may play out in the future.
(Stand 20)
IQVIA
IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of information, innovative technology solutions and contract research services dedicated to using analytics and science to help healthcare stakeholders find better solutions for their patients. Solutions are powered by the IQVIA CORE™, which combines big data, advanced technology, analytics and extensive industry knowledge. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA has approximately 55,000 employees worldwide. Learn more at iqvia.com.
We are J+D, experts in Pharmaceutical Forecasting. We believe in making the complex, simple. Established over 15 years ago, as well as offering training and MR; we help our clients make the appropriate choices about data, forecasting methodologies and model design. All our solutions are delivered through easy to use, engaging and interactive platforms which captivate audiences.
We have created a range of products and services to support key business decisions for New Product Planning, Strategic and Operational Forecasting, Brand Planning and Implementation.
(Stand 13)
Liberating Research
Liberating Research is a health research community for Patients in Europe and the United States. Specialists in healthcare fieldwork, our custom platform allows our community to take part in online, phone or in-person market research relating to their condition, so they can get paid, raise money for charity and help research all at the same time. Started by a Multiple Sclerosis patient we are experts in hard to reach patients and unusual methodologies, recent projects range from qualitative research with metastatic cancer patients to an international quant project with over 1500 HIV patients and partners across 9 countries.
(Stand 8)
Lightspeed Health
Lightspeed Health leverages its award-winning industry expertise and local market knowledge to reach key stakeholders for quantitative and qualitative research. As trusted partners, we understand that it is our job to make research flexible and easy for our clients. It is our mission to use our experience, talent and passion to help you illuminate insights so that you can make your most important business decisions. By combining our healthcare industry specialization with the panel expertise and global strength of Lightspeed, Lightspeed Health empowers our clients by shining a light on today’s complex healthcare environment.
(Stand 4)
Medefield
Medefield is a leading provider of global online physician engagement and fieldwork services to the healthcare market research industry. Medefield is powered by LiMA (Leaders in Medicine Atlas), the largest physician directory in the world, with 4M+ fully vetted physician profiles.
Medefield offers a solution to our industry’s present threats of declining response rates, disingenuous respondents, and fraud. With its unique MedeLists approach, Medefield ensures that every respondent is recruited from a vetted list, either through matching client provided target lists against our proprietary LiMA Directory or in the absence of a client list, using a LiMA-generated list.
(Stand 18)
QualWorld
QualWorld is an independent fieldwork provider specializing in qualitative market research for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry.
With our permanent staff in 7 countries and our team of 300+ freelancers/partners in 40+ countries, we offer global solutions to all qualitative healthcare fieldwork needs, with the convenience of a single point-of-contact, local expertise and the tailored, top quality services of a boutique agency.
Every one of our project managers has 3 to 20+ years of experience in healthcare market research and brings a unique local, methodological or therapeutic expertise. Our truly international team speaks 10+ different languages.
(Stand 26)
Reframe Research
Reframe Research provides pharmaceutical market insight services at a ‘fair rate’ to clients and executives, via our EU/UK-based pool of senior pharma insight professionals with global and client-side experience, through:
• Flexible Interim Cover: interim/contract cover for pharmaceutical market insight professionals; short /long-term needs (e.g. vacancies, excess workload, etc)
• Dashboard Development & Management: bespoke to brands
• Full Service Market Research: Qual & Quant
Our team is passionate about providing high quality expertise whilst being reliable, responsible and dependable, fitting in as part of your team. We can hit the ground running!
Reframe Research provides higher levels of insight for your brands
(Stand 19)
RP Translate
RP Translate: Understanding the world’s peoples, raising the quality of insight
Precision and sensitivity are critical for MedPharma and Healthcare research. Helping and advising you to deliver great insights to your clients by applying our linguistic knowledge, research expertise and passion, our hand-picked pool of international HCPs, medical experts and pharmaceutical translators coupled with our unique 5-stage quality verification process ensures up-to-date, pin-point accuracy across all your markets. Committment to being the best shines through every member of our team: MA-qualified, BHBIA-certified, MRS-trained, GDPR-aware and compliant. We want you to be able to take a back-seat and trust in your translations.
(Stand 11)
SCIO Health Analytics
Based in West Hartford, Connecticut, SCIO Health Analytics is a leading health analytics solution and services company. It serves over 100 healthcare organizations representing over 130 million covered lives across the continuum including providers, health plans, PBMs, employers, health services and global life sciences companies.
SCIO provides predictive analytic solutions and services that transform data into actionable insights, helping healthcare organizations create the understanding that drives change and proven outcomes. SCIO delivers more than $540 million in client value annually through the elimination of healthcare waste and improved performance associated with its reimbursement and care optimizationsolutions.
Through SCIO’s value-based approach that enables healthcare organizations to reduce the total cost of care while improving care quality, SCIO is dedicated to helping our clients solve the underlying issues that lead to excessive spending and suboptimal outcomes. Visit SCIO’s website for up to date information on their product and service solution offerings.
(Stand 12)
Semantics Market Research
Semantics is the independent qualitative fieldwork agency for Healthcare Market Research. With a strong focus on Pricing, Reimbursement and Market Access, Semantics has an unparalleled capability to reach Payors and Key Influencers of Local, Regional and National level in over 50 countries around the world.
In addition to our PRMA services, we conduct Qualitative and Quantitative Research with healthcare professionals and patients in any therapeutic area, from Primary Care Physicians and Nurses to Specialists of KOL status. We organise and execute Telephone Depth Interviews, Focus Groups, Advisory Boards, Workshops, Ethnographic Research and Online Surveys globally.
Founded in 2009, Semantics has 12 full time staff and over 50 freelancers. Our head office is in London.
(Stand 22)
Sermo
SERMO is the leading global social network for physicians where close to 800,000 fully verified and licensed physicians from more than 150 countries talk real-world medicine, review what peers think of different treatment options - including ratings and comments on prescription drugs - collectively solve cases, respond to healthcare polls, and earn honorarium from surveys.
Drug Ratings was developed by SERMO and SERMO physicians. The statistical methodology behind Ratings was developed and verified independently by biostatistics consultants led by Lee-Jen Wei of the Blue Null Consulting Group.
SERMO is also the world’s largest healthcare professional (HCP) polling company. The SERMO research network is comprised of 1.8 million HCPs and includes 40 percent of the U.S. physician population. Most of the 700,000 surveys SERMO conducts annually are among specialist physicians – over 70 percent of physician members are specialists. Learn more at http://www.sermo.com/.
(Stand 10)
For over 15 years, SurveyHealthcare (SHC), formally SHC Universal, has been a leader in healthcare market research, specializing in online survey data collection services that include quantitative and qualitative healthcare research, panel recruitment, programming and fieldwork management. By working directly with market research agencies and consultancies, we support pharmaceutical and medical device companies in making decisions that affect health outcomes. We do this by providing access to our global panel of 2M+ HCPs including physicians, allied healthcare professionals, payors, patients, caregivers and key opinion leaders (KOLs) from the US, Canada and EU5. All of our HCP survey respondents are profiled and verified in order to provide you with the most qualified healthcare perspective. Leveraging customized solutions via our proprietary technology suite, we work collaboratively with our clients to address their unique, individual needs and achieve their data research goals. With a knowledgeable team of industry experts across our global locations, we pride ourselves on providing 24-hour, top-notch client coverage, to deliver perfect data on time and within budget.
(Stand 17)
SKIM Healthcare
We are a refreshingly human healthcare insights agency with offices in the UK, Europe, the Americas and Asia. SKIM people are research heavyweights specialized in understanding decision behaviour in the healthcare world. Clients trust us for our critical thinking – we convert tough business questions into easy-to-grasp reporting and actionable answers. We love what we do and it’s infectious. Committed to our analytical roots, team SKIM is constantly evolving, inventing and innovating to help you perform better.
(Stand 3)
Thorogood
Thorogood is a professional services firm specialising in Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions, strategies and services. We help the world’s top organisations in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Insurance and Banking sectors to gain valuable insights into their business and the market in which they operate. We partner with the leading technology vendors to provide analytical solutions that enable our clients to achieve their business goals through data-driven decision making.
(Stand 15)