Eugene Sefanov

  Dislike being asked for your name, account number, and password every time you call the bank? Well, times are a-changin’. Banks are turning to mobile technology for help more than ever before. Bank of America is leveraging thumbprint verification technology that enables customers to automatically be identified, as well as carry out their banking […]

  Key findings in a new Gartner report showed that cloud computing is likely to grow 16.5% in 2016, reaching $204 billion in spending. According to Sid Nag, director, cloud technologies at Gartner Research, “The market for public cloud services is continuing to demonstrate high rates of growth across all markets and Gartner expects this […]

  If there’s a time for pharmaceutical and medical device companies to seek more real world data as evidence to support their medical products, that time is now. Real world data, which is the data generated in settings such as routine doctor visits and hospital stays, is often found in electronic health records (EHR) and […]

  If you’ve been waiting to implement Argus Safety 8.x or upgrade your existing environment, the wait is finally over. While the new version was released last year, it takes several months to build a comprehensive validation suite, and I’m happy to announce that Perficient’s life sciences group has completed that task. On top of […]

  Data privacy across all industries continues to be a big concern for everyone. When it comes to the life sciences and healthcare industries, patients are especially worried. They simply are afraid of being identified. In a recent Scientific American article, Adam Tanner discussed the business of buying and selling health data. Health data brokerages […]

  It’s fair, or rather unfair, to say that most of us are affected directly or indirectly by cancer. While oncology treatments continue to be developed at a pace that many therapeutic areas would be envious of, we still have a long way to go. According to the FDA, in 2015, 18 drugs related to […]

  A few days ago, I shared a list, a much smaller list, of unicorn companies that sit in the healthcare and biotechnology industries. To refresh your memory, a unicorn is a technology-related organization with a valuation of more than $1 billion, typically a start-up, and with no real track record of success. In a recent report, […]

  Following an 18-month-long investigation by the United States Senate Committee on Finance, Gilead’s pricing and marketing strategy for its hepatitis drugs, Sovaldi and Harvoni, was deemed one that chooses profit over patient access. In order to appropriately shape policy related to these findings, the Committee has written a letter to the healthcare and patient […]

  If you’re familiar with our blog, you’ll know that we talk a lot about digital transformation; specifically, how life sciences organizations are leveraging digital technology to support their programs. 

  Now that February 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 January– they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 

It’s no secret that patients struggle with taking their medication. Whether they forget or purposely avoid taking it, a patient’s outcome could be affected. If a patient is in a clinical trial and isn’t following protocol by taking their medication as instructed, it ruins the legitimacy of the trial’s data and ultimately puts other lives […]

  Last year, I wrote about Proteus, the company behind the FDA-cleared ingestible sensor that helps monitor patients’ adherence to medication. At that time, the company was running clinical trials in the US, whereas in 2012, the company’s platform was already deployed in the UK.