Ratings

5 reasons to rate a Pharma Outsourcing Partner

by Jae Chung

You may have heard that the pharmaceutical outsourcing industry now has it’s own rating site. That’s right. So in addition to word of mouth and your bi-annual surveys from Contract Pharma, you now have the ability to sound off on who you think is great, and not so good in real time. Through goBalto you [...]

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How Partner ratings are policed on goBalto

by Jae Chung

We take the integrity of the Partner rating system seriously, and devote considerable resources to ensure members are presented with a fair and balanced view of the Partners which are rated. We also recognize that no system is perfect and we are the first to admit the limitations of any rating system. To address the [...]

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Rating CROs, CMOs and Preclinical Contract Research companies

by Jae Chung

Everyone has an opinion. People love to rant and rave about their favorite car, book, musician, movie and in my, a case laptop (in case you’re wondering, it’s a MacBook Pro 15″). In this day & age, we can find out anything on everything. Well, pretty much everything. Last fall, I was trying to identify [...]

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“Expedia” for Pharma

by Jae Chung

The New York Times had a piece today on how the pharma industry has been relatively unscathed in Washington’s effort to overhaul the nation’s health care system.  Despite the $80 billion cost saving promise made by the drug industry to President Obama, some House leaders do not think the drug makers have given enough. While [...]

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Drug outsourcers, Meet Web 2.0

by Jae Chung

Paul Thomas, Senior Editor of PharmaManufacturing.com wrote a piece on goBalto and their approach to bringing transparency to the global drug outsourcing industry.   In summary, goBalto has evolved into a web-based collaboration tool for the pharma industry, which allows members to sound off on who’s good – or more importantly bad in contract services. [...]

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