Jun 22, 2017
Lorrie Carr joined ZappRx in April
2016 as Chief Commercial Officer. She has over 20 years’ experience
in the health care industry – primarily focused in the
pharma/biotech and specialty pharmacy industries. Just prior to
joining ZappRx, Ms. Carr was the Divisional VP of Enterprise
Specialty Sales and Product Management for Walgreens Specialty
Pharmacy. Ms. Carr transformed the strategy, operations and
deployment of the over 300-person Specialty and Infusion sales
teams resulting in consistent double-digit year over year growth
for the multi-billion-dollar business. In addition, she created,
built and successfully led the product management team which
developed and executed on growth strategies for high priority
specialty disease areas. Prior to Walgreens, Ms. Carr was the Head
of U.S. / Global Market Access for Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now
Takeda Oncology) where she built the first Reimbursement & Market
Access team for the company, advised global R&D on access
related trial design decisions, led the European patient access
strategy, and played a material role in developing pricing,
contracting, distribution and patient assistance program strategies
for pipeline and marketed products. She started her pharmaceutical
career at Schering-Plough (now Merck) where she held various roles
in account management, and ultimately, became a senior leader
of the US Market Access marketing group. Ms. Carr received her
Bachelor’s degree from Columbia College and holds her MBA from
UMASS Isenberg School of Management.
00:00 Specialty Pharmaceutical Products.
02:30 Inefficiencies in the system.
04:00 The paper-fill process for Patient Prescription/Enrollment
with Specialty Pharmacies.
06:30 Enrollment Forms for prescription drugs filled at Specialty
Pharmacies.
10:20 The overwhelming cost and administrative overhead for
Providers having to keep track of all of these forms.
13:00 How the process changes for Providers with ZappRx
19:00 Getting the drug out to the patient without conflict.
20:00 Double check for patients and Specialty Pharmacy.
22:00 Why ZappRx is collaborative, not competitive.
23:30 ZappRx’s work on the Provider side.
24:25 Gathering Data at the front-end of the prescribing
process.
25:15 ZappRx’s long-term business model.
25:30 Missing Data in the healthcare and pharmacy markets.
27:45 Aggregating data and identifying trends.
28:30 ZappRx’s five key focus Disease Areas.
30:00 You can learn more about ZappRx at www.zapprx.com.