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How to scientifically manage relationships with doctors and pharmacists using EMOROCO CRM Lite for Medical Representatives (MRs)

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"There are 300 doctors in each assigned area. Very few medical representatives (MRs) have an accurate grasp of who is currently favorable towards our products, who hasn't prescribed them yet, and whose loyalty is waning."

The difficulty in customer management for medical representatives lies in the "diversity of the people they interact with (doctors and pharmacists)" and the "limited opportunities for contact." With increasing restrictions on meetings and stricter compliance, managing the context—"what was discussed last time, what resonated with them, and what should be communicated next"—is critically important in order to make the most of limited contact opportunities.


Three core functions of CRM for medical representatives (MRs)

① Emotional temperature management: Understanding how favorably doctors view your products, not just through "prescription history" but also through "emotional temperature (favorable/neutral/skeptical/preferring competitors)," will change your approach.

② Context inheritance: In the MR (Medical Representative) industry, where personnel changes are frequent, productivity hinges on whether the successor can inherit the relationships built by their predecessor over three years. Narrative memos help preserve the relationship context, preventing reliance on individual expertise.

③ Multi-stakeholder management: This involves simultaneously managing multiple stakeholders who influence prescribing, including not only doctors, but also pharmacists, medical social workers (MSWs), the hospital's drug selection committee, and head nurses.


Field Design

【医師レコード(メインレコード)】
・氏名・診療科・所属医療機関・役職
・担当MR(現在・前任者)
・専門領域・主な学術興味(テキスト)
・自社製品への態度(感情温度):
  熱心な処方医/好意的/中立/懐疑的/競合優先/面会困難
・処方状況の認識(選択式):
  メイン処方/サブ処方/試験的/未処方/処方中止
・面会頻度の好み(選択式):
  月複数回/月1回/隔月/要予約のみ/面会困難
・最も効果的な情報提供の形式(選択式):
  データ・エビデンス重視/症例重視/学術討議好き/
  簡潔な情報のみ/学会・研究会で
・関心が高い適応症・患者層(テキスト)
・次のアクション内容と期日
・「刺さった言語フレーム」(テキスト):
  例「副作用プロファイルの比較に強く反応した」
  例「患者QOLへの言及で態度が軟化した」
・ICX変化サイン(チェックボックス):
  □ 先月より反応が薄くなった
  □ 競合製品の話題を自分から出してきた
  □ 急に積極的になった
  □ 学術的な議論を求めてきた

【薬剤師レコード】
・氏名・所属薬局/病院・役職
・自社製品への態度(感情温度)
・患者への服薬指導での影響力(高/中/低)
・医師への影響力(高/中/低)
・共同薬物治療管理(CDTM)への関心度
・次のアクション内容と期日

【医療機関レコード(施設単位)】
・医療機関名・種別(大学病院/一般病院/クリニック)
・自社採用製品リスト
・医薬品採用委員会の次回開催予定
・キーオピニオンリーダー(KOL)の在籍
・施設全体の関係温度(感情温度)

Workflow Design

【MR活動ワークフロー】

「感情温度が『懐疑的』または『競合優先』に更新」:
  → タスク:「○○先生 関係立て直しアプローチの設計」
  内容:「売り込みは逆効果。
       先生が研究・診療で困っていることを
       純粋に聞く場を作ることを優先する。
       エビデンスの押しつけではなく、
       先生の臨床課題を起点にした対話から」

「ICX変化サイン:『先月より反応が薄い』にチェック」:
  → タスク:「○○先生 変化の原因確認——今月中に接触を」

「面会から30日以上経過×態度:好意的以上」:
  → タスク:「○○先生 定期接触——関係温度の維持」

「担当変更が発生したとき」:
  → タスク①:「前任者との30分引き継ぎセッション」
  内容:「各医師の『刺さった言語フレーム・禁忌トピック・
       関係のキーとなった体験』を
       ナラティブメモに全件追記してから離任」
  → タスク②(新担当者):
    「担当先生50名のCRMを読んでから初回訪問を設計」

【エリア・製品軸ワークフロー】

「採用委員会開催1ヶ月前の医療機関」:
  → タスク:「○○病院 採用委員会に向けた事前活動計画」
  内容:「委員会メンバーとの事前の個別接触、
       データパッケージの準備、
       社内医師・MSLとの連携を開始する」

Dashboard design

【MR個人ダッシュボード(毎朝確認)】

「今週訪問推奨リスト」:
  次のアクション期日が今週以内または超過

「感情温度アラート」:
  懐疑的・競合優先に変化した先生

「ICX変化サインあり×最終面会14日以上」:
  早急に状況確認すべき先生

【営業所長ダッシュボード(週次確認)】
・担当MR別の感情温度分布(好意的/中立/懐疑的)
・担当変更から1ヶ月以内の先生の感情温度変化
・採用委員会前1ヶ月以内の医療機関リスト

CRM 4.0 for Medical Representatives: From "Information Provider" to "Clinical Partner for Physicians"

With restrictions on visits becoming stricter, for medical representatives (MRs) to remain an "essential presence" in their relationships with doctors, they need to offer value that goes beyond simply "delivering product information."

"An MR who understands this doctor's clinical challenges more deeply than anyone else"—this is the ideal MR in the CRM 4.0 era. An MR who senses and resonates with a doctor's "deep commitment to their patients (ICX-like passion)" will be someone doctors "want to meet," even in an era of visitation restrictions.

EMOROCO CRM Lite's narrative memo, emotional temperature, and ICX change sign fields enable the development of this "empathetic MR" within the organization.
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Person who wrote this article
Shinsuke Matsubara

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He has worked as a system engineer, architect, and consultant at Accenture and other companies, an evangelist at Infragistics (Microsoft MVP for Dynamics CRM (now Microsoft MVP for Business Solutions)), and a solutions specialist at Microsoft (in charge of Dynamics CRM products).He currently leads a service team specializing in CRM, supporting CRM implementation and business launches for companies of all sizes.At the same time, he works as a CRM evangelist, spreading the idea of "true" CRM through events and article contributions.
He studied CRM at Accenture, and is the legitimate successor to the CRM that globally advocated CRM 2.0 (Platformed CRM) at Microsoft. He is also the longest serving CRM expert (CRM Diagnostician/CRM Doctor).
Since then, he has been interviewed as a leading expert in CRM, advocating CRM 3.0 (Personalized CRM) and CRM 4.0 (Creative CRM), and has received numerous awards both domestically and internationally.
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