How pharma can amplify product value with implementation science.

Abstract

Achieving blockbuster status requires more than clinical trial success. Crucial barriers often include real-world factors like patient acceptance, prescriber behavior and timely and full reimbursement. Implementation science can be used to identify such barriers, develop strategies to overcome them, as well as test their effect. Used correctly and at the right time, implementation science can amplify product value and lead to a triple win for patients, healthcare systems and pharma. Three easy steps that focus on context, strategies and outcomes, can be followed by pharma to bring implementation thinking and research into their processes. A 'what if' case study is shared to give an indication of how this might work and the impact it might have.