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Meet The Team – Erin Canuso
March 22nd, 2016As Olson Research’s Manager of Client Services, Erin oversees key client relationships. In this role, Erin provides feasibility, pricing and methodology guidance for new project engagements, as well as maintaining an open partnership with long-standing clients to enable smooth, efficient transition of projects to Olson Research Group’s Field Services Department.
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Put Rapid Results To Work For You
February 26th, 2016Our Rapid Results solution provides a quick and easy way to obtain valuable market knowledge to support corporate strategy, business development decisions and product/brand management questions.
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Effective Survey Programming: Art or Science
February 8th, 2016We think it’s both! Good programming does more than ask questions; it accomplishes your research objectives in the most efficient, engaging manner possible.
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Meet the Team – Ethan Frank
November 13th, 2015As Olson Research’s Field Services Director, Ethan oversees all fieldwork, as well as engaging with clients to effectively scope and formulate fieldwork design. Ethan works closely with Project Management teams to ensure that studies are progressing effectively and quickly, providing the critical data that each unique client requires.
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Quant Before Qual: A Novel Approach to Explore a Provocative Topic in Physician Research
November 1st, 2015Lynn Welsh & Amanda Lipski, The Olson Research Group, Inc.
as published in the November 2015 issue of Quirk’s magazine
With the US healthcare system on pace to spend more than $150B treating cancer by the year 2020, payers are implementing novel methods in an attempt to curtail costs, including incentivizing physicians to adhere to suggested treatment regimens. This practice has the potential to not only reduce costs, but also to suggest that payers, and not physicians, are directing care.
How do physicians feel about this approach? Olson Research’s deep oncology access enabled us to fully explore this provocative subject. As featured in the most recent edition of Quirk’s Marketing Research Review, our white paper reveals oncologists have very strong feelings on this topic.
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Exceptional Fieldwork, Exceeding Client Expectations
October 21st, 2015Exceptional Fieldwork, Exceeding Client Expectations by Utilizing Best Practices
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Industry Insights: Rare Disease Stakeholder Dynamics
July 28th, 2015Olson Research Group and Currant Insights recently partnered to better understand rare disease stakeholder dynamics.
After an initial round of exploratory research focused on three rare conditions, we expanded the research scope to survey 845 physicians treating ten rare conditions to further test our hypothesis and refine our model. Results from the research were presented at the 2014 PMRG Institute. This infographic details three key insights into rare disease stakeholder dynamics. (more…)

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Industry Insights: Standardizing Cancer Care or Discouraging Personalized Medicine?
April 28th, 2015Some Oncologists are now being offered $350 per patient each month to follow an insurer’s recommended treatment protocol but many are concerned that this will inhibit quality patient care. We asked Oncologists their opinions on the matter and here’s what they had to say. (more…)

Industry Insights: mHealth Usage and Adoption
January 15th, 2015What are healthcare practitioners currently doing to utilize mHealth tools in their clinical practice? Who is adopting these tools and technologies? How are they being harnessed to improve patient access to care? What opportunities and obstacles might the future hold? (more…)

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What Do Healthcare Practitioners Really Think of Healthcare Reform?
June 20th, 2014Industry Insights Volume 4: Issue 6
Using our internet-based tool OlsonOnline™, fueled by the engine of our proprietary healthcare database, Olson Research surveyed more than 1,200 HCPs of various specialties to see how they were adapting to the current reforms and how well they understood the reform plans. The answers may not be what you expected.