Eugene Sefanov

  Mwandama Mutanuka, a colleague of mine who’s involved in business process management (BPM) projects at Perficient, recently authored a blog post about how enterprise mobility can improve clinical research. He started his piece with news that highlighted Eli Lilly’s purchase of 15,000 iPads for employees, starting a few years back. Now, they’re upgrading to […]

  In a recent post, I laid out three reasons why you should be a believer in Oracle. The article highlighted Oracle’s transition from focusing on solutions that were historically implemented on-premises to specializing in the development and sale of cloud solutions. 

  Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the communications industry in the U.K., recently published customer complaint data for the country’s largest telephone, mobile, internet, and TV service providers. While total customer complaints across all segments decreased between Q3 and Q4 2015, mobile was the only category to experience a rise in complaints. 

  In a time when the turnover rate for clinical monitoring positions in the U.S. hovers around 25%, it’s more important than ever to do more with less. With risk-based monitoring (RBM), contract research organizations (CROs) and sponsors can leverage data in existing IT systems to spot, rectify, and prevent issues related to the execution […]

  Oracle Industry Connect, the conference designed for executives from a variety of industries, is right around the corner. Like, next week! To those of you planning to attend the event in Orlando from April 11-13, you’re in for a treat. There’s a powerful lineup of speakers who will be discussing the latest trends and […]

  Real-world data, the data generated about drugs and devices in real-world settings (e.g., routing doctor visits, hospital stays, etc.), can help develop more accurate product profiles. This is because the data comes from products that are no longer confined to the smaller, homogenous populations involved in clinical trials. More comprehensive profiles can help better […]

  Oracle’s third quarter 2016 earnings call was peppered with strong revenues and big wins in various categories. But what was most striking was the incredible progress the enterprise software powerhouse has made with regard to the cloud. Between CEO Safra Catz, CEO Mark Hurd (yes, they’re both CEOs), and Executive Chairman of the Board […]

  Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, as well as our own clinical and safety systems. The systems covered in our review are: 

  Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), an organization whose brands provide financial products and services to personal and business customers in the UK and beyond, is putting artificial intelligence (AI) to work in its customer support department. 

  Now that April is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in March – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 

  At the end of 2015, Austin Frakt, a health economist, researcher, and contributor to The New York Times’ The Upshot, wrote about the life sciences industry’s lack of interest in developing medicines that prevent cancer. 

  Most of us are aware of voice-enabled consumer products, such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Echo, and Amazon’s Fire TV Stick. But, there’s another type of product that’s leveraging our voices to make life easier. And there’s a good chance you’re already using it. If not, it’s just a free download away: Your bank’s mobile […]