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Call reports that do not depend on the call report

A medical rep's day is judged on a report they write themselves, about calls nobody else saw. Time at the address becomes the call on its own, so coverage against the planned list is a record of the day rather than a record of the typing.

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Tuesday · territory 14S. Kaur
Dr A. Fenwick, clinic09:20 - 09:4121 m
Northgate Pharmacy10:05 - 10:1813 m
City Hospital, outpatients11:00 - 12:141 h 14 m
On the plan for today8 of 11
Written by the repnothing

Waiting time at a hospital is real work and shows as a long visit. Whether that hour was well spent is a management conversation, not something the record decides.

The call

A report about calls nobody else saw

A medical rep is judged almost entirely on a document they write about themselves. That is an uncomfortable basis for a quarterly review, for the manager and for the rep.

  • Time at the practice, pharmacy or hospital becomes the call, with a start and an end.
  • The rep stops having to reconstruct a day, and stops being asked to justify one from memory.
  • Notes and samples attach to that call rather than to a separate report.
Territory 14 · this weekS. Kaur
Calls recorded38
On the planned list31
Not on any listkept as unlisted7
Written up by the repnothing

Coverage

Who has not been seen at all

Frequency against the planned list is the number the cycle is managed on, and the accounts with nothing against them are the half that changes anything.

  • Measured per cycle against the call list you imported, by rep and by territory.
  • Prescribers with no call in the period you set are the top of the screen.
  • An unworked patch is visible while there is still a quarter left to do something about it.
Cycle coverage · territory 14112 accounts
Seen this cycle83
Seen once, under 10 minutes14
Not seen in 60 days15
High priority, not seen4

The last row is the one worth a phone call tonight.

What it will not do

It sits under the CRM, not over it

In a regulated organisation the CRM holds prescriber data, sample accountability and detailing content. None of that moves, and none of it should.

  • No prescriber master data, no compliance workflow for samples, no e-detailing.
  • Visits export into whatever CRM you already run, rather than asking you to replace it.
  • What it adds is the one thing the CRM has always taken on trust: whether the call happened.
112accounts
83seen this cycle
15not in 60 days
0systems replaced

Also in the box

Call reporting that does not depend on the report

Waiting time shows as what it is

A long stop at a hospital is a long stop. The record does not decide whether it was productive; it just stops the rep having to justify the shape of the day from memory.

Notes and samples on the call

What was discussed and what was left attach to that visit, findable a year later by the account rather than by scrolling a chat.

Conveyance measured, not estimated

Distance between calls comes from the same readings, so the expense claim and the call report cannot disagree.

Reps see their own record

The same day, in their app, in their words. If coverage is used in a review, the person it describes should be able to read it first.

Where a pharma CRM or closed-loop marketing tool still wins

This is not a pharma CRM. It does not hold prescriber master data, sample accountability with compliance workflows, e-detailing content, or closed-loop marketing, and in a regulated organisation those may be required rather than optional. What this does is the part underneath: whether the rep was at the address, for how long, and whether the coverage figure would survive being questioned. Teams run it alongside the CRM and export visits into it.

Straight answers

Questions people ask

Do reps have to check in at each doctor?

No. Time at the address is the call. A rep who never opens the app all day still has an accurate, complete day on the record.

Does this handle sample accountability?

No. Samples can be noted against a visit, but regulated sample accountability with its compliance workflow is a pharma CRM's job and not ours.

How does it handle a hospital with many departments?

The boundary is the site. A long visit shows as a long visit, and if you need department-level detail that is a note on the call rather than something the geography can tell you.

Can we load our call list?

Yes, from CSV with addresses. Boundaries are drawn for you and coverage is measured against that list from then on.

Will reps accept being tracked?

On two conditions, both of which are settings: collection runs only inside working hours, and reps can read their own record. Tracking somebody's evening is how a field team turns on a system.

Try it on one territory for a week.

Put it on one phone, run a normal week, and see what comes out the other end.