Driving success in Medical Communications: Free webinar for medical writers

GLOBAL software provider, Ideagen Plc, has partnered with the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), to host a free webinar for thought leaders in the life sciences and medical writing fields.

The webinar, titled Where Science, Art & Technology Come Together: The Key to Driving Success in Medical Communication, is taking place on Thursday, May 5, between 12:00pm and 1:00pm ET and will feature an impressive line-up of speakers who will discuss their insights and best practices on review management, documentation and interpersonal challenges.

The webinar has been designed to leave attendees with actionable takeaways and some key topic areas of the session will be:

• Promoting a proactive and transparent quality culture by applying the best course of action.
• Holding individuals accountable and more effectively navigating interpersonal challenges within the context of reviews.
• Implementing best practices for review management that leverages technology, project management skills and building and maintaining solid working relationships.

Ideagen is a fast-growing provider of compliance and collaboration software for highly regulatory industries. Pharmaceutical, biotech and other life science businesses operate in an extremely document-intensive, highly regulated environments and Ideagen’s secure collaborative document system, PleaseReview, supports this critical process of producing compliant, quality documents within tight deadlines.

Partnering up with Ideagen for this webinar is AMWA, the leading professional organization for medical communications. Today, the Association has more than 4,000 members including a variety of medical and professional communicators.

Included in the webinar’s line up of speakers are Kim Norris (Director of Medical Writing), and Abigail Shetler (Senior Medical Writer) from Netherlands/US-based gene therapy firm, uniQure.

Also speaking at the event is recognized expert in regulatory compliance within pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech, Stephen Ferrell. Mr Ferrell was co-founder of CompliancePath Ltd, a Scottish and US Compliance services company that support regulated clients all around the world.

Also part of the speaker line up is Hugh Devine of CompliancePath. Mr Devine is fully trained in US & EU IT Regulatory requirements and has led pilot projects for key IT systems within the regulated space.

Ideagen’s Head of Technology, Jason Webb, joins the webinar too with a wealth of software experience having worked on everything from satellite systems to large scale social media sites. He currently runs Ideagen’s cutting edge Research and Innovation departments that works on diverse topics such as machine learning, application architecture and ethics.

Yassine Ahram, PleaseReview Product Manager at Ideagen, added: “The aim of the webinar is to leave attendees with actionable takeaways that will provide an educational experience concentrating on best practices for the document review and co-authoring, compliance and oversight, and risk mitigation within the context of medical writing.

“We are really looking forward to hearing from both our experts and attendees in what is set to be a hugely thought-provoking and compelling session.”

To register for the webinar, visit: American Medical Writers Association (amwa.org)

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For more information contact:

Victoria Watkins, victoria.watkins@ideagen.com, +441629 699100

About Ideagen

Ideagen’s software helps companies comply with regulation and manage risk.

Ideagen is a leader in the £31.2 billion regulatory and compliance software market, serving highly regulated industries such as life sciences, healthcare, banking and finance and insurance.  Ideagen has made 25 acquisitions to build its market leadership.

More than 10,000 organisations use Ideagen's software, including nine of the top 10 UK accounting firms, 7 of the top aerospace and defence companies and 75% of leading pharmaceutical firms.

Ideagen has a diversified customer base including blue chip, global brands such as Heineken, British Airways, BAE, Aggreko, US Navy, Bank of New York and Johnson Matthey, as well as 250 hospitals across the UK and US.

Ideagen is headquartered in the UK, listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market (Ticker: IDEA.L), and has key hubs in the UK, EU, US, Middle East and South East Asia.  For further information please visit www.ideagen.com.