Clinical Research
Off-shoring: A Country Attractiveness Index for Clinical Trials
By Mark P. Mathieu
For many years, pharmaceutical companies have been off-shoring manufacturing operations to lower-cost countries. Healthy margins and strong risk aversion have afforded pharmaceutical companies the luxury of staying close to home, for all but manufacturing activities. As financial pressures increase, pharmaceutical executives are finding that going offshore is not only less risky than it once was, but also too attractive to ignore. Read More
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Pen-Based Site Visit Reporting Solutions
Feb 10 | Expert Commentary | The preferred workflow of most health care professionals continues to be pen-based, not keyboard-based. Several technologies have been developed recently that address this issue of EDC in a clinician-friendly manner with electronic pen-on-paper systems, including the Digital Pen and Tablet PC.
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Study Finds ‘Operational Gap’ in Clinical Trial Portfolio Management
Feb 3 | eCliniqua | For most biopharmaceutical companies, the pressure to improve clinical trial portfolio management efficiency has arrived sooner than their operational readiness to meet the challenge. Corporate intolerance for budget variances above 5% of target is now commonplace. But widespread absence of project-level operational metrics has made it all but impossible to drive planned-to-actual spending into alignment.
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Moonbay Sells Document Management Services Via Cloud Computing
Oct 20 | Moonbay Technology entered the field of regulatory document management and electronic submissions in June with an option affordable even to small biotechnology firms heretofore reliant primarily on homegrown, error-prone systems.
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DIA 2009 Trendspotting
July 20, 2009 | At last month’s DIA annual meeting in San Diego, I set out in search of the latest trends in the biopharmaceutical industry. To find out what’s happening in the various sectors we cover in eCliniqua, I interviewed myriad attendees, exhibitors, and speakers as I floated around the San Diego Convention Center.
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Lilly: Innovation More Often Involves Drug Delivery Technology
July 6, 2009 | Increasingly, drugs in clinical development incorporate some sort of specialized delivery technology that couples therapeutic benefit with greater ease of use. William Heath, vice president of product research and development at Eli Lilly and Company, talked to eCliniqua about the rise in clinical trial activity around new modes of drug delivery.
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Archimedes Turns Clinical Trial Models into Reality
June 22, 2009 | The Archimedes Model is a mathematical model that simulates human physiology (and the surrounding health care system) by creating virtual trial populations.
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IBM’s Sunny Forecast for Clinical Cloud Computing
June 1, 2009 | “Clinical clouds” may be the only sensible way to access needed software and information as life sciences companies engage in more collaborations, alliances, and partnerships to weather the “perfect storm of unprecedented challenges” bearing down on their collective bottom line, says Paul Papas, IBM Global Business Services.
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GE Plans to Spend $6 Billion on Health-IT
May 8, 2009 | General Electric is set to invest $6 billion over the next six years in health-IT, the company announced yesterday.
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Pharma Sees a Bigger Role for Imaging in Trials
May 4, 2009 | Acquiring medical images is an art form, especially when those images serve as endpoints for clinical trials. So says Kenneth Faulkner, VP of medical imaging for Perceptive Informatics, a subsidiary of PAREXEL.
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Clinical Best Practices Awards Given
May 4, 2009 | Last week at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, two clinical Best Practices Awards were given in the Clinical Trial Management and Clinical Trial Design categories.
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The Workflow Driven Lab Many companies have recognized that their internal business units operate as a set of business processes. These business processes are also called workflows. Modern Laboratories are highly suitable to this workflow driven approach. In fact, the lab environments successful operation is predicated on the successful definition and adherence to workflows. It could be said that a modern laboratory is an advanced process implementing construct. It is important that laboratory management software mirrors the process driven nature of the lab thereby increasing automation, shortening learning curves, improving data quality and increasing lab throughput. - The modern laboratory is an advanced workflow implementing construct
- Laboratory Management Software solutions should fully embrace and mirror this process driven approach
- Effective information management of workflow processes with a LIMS results in increased automation, reduced training curves, better data quality and increased lab throughput
Curing Life Sciences Data Management Challenges with Scalable Storage High performance storage systems are a given to meet today’s life sciences R&D computational challenges. But with the explosive growth in data produced by next-gen lab equipment, scalability and long-term data management issues must also be addressed. Read this paper to learn: - Why new lab equipment will impact R&D workflows
- How to avoid the hidden costs of long-term data management
- What approach you should take to accommodate today’s data while having the flexibility to scale to meet future demands.
StorNext 4.0: Technical Product Brief
Proven in the world’s most data intensive industries, Quantum StorNext is a scalable, high-performance file system which allows data sharing across Linux, Mac, Unix, and Windows operating systems and manages data in enterprise storage environments. In this Technical Brief you'll learn: - How a high-performing file system can accelerate your business
- How to simplify your data management
- How a tiered storage approach can save you money
Predict or Perish! Shaping the Practices of Clinical Trials
 Sponsored by: DecisionView
Predictive Analytics are a key differentiator in running your clinical trials successfully through 2010 and beyond. They will help you to optimize your patient enrollment, reduce your clinical operations costs and minimize your financial liability in the clinical supply chain. In this session, you will:
• Learn what predictive analytics are and what they are not
• Understand why you need predictive analytics to run your clinical trials, and
• Explore how predictive analytics will shape the future of clinical trials
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