Eugene Sefanov

  As many of you know, Perficient has a practice devoted to Salesforce.com solutions. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a bunch of my colleagues are at this year’s Dreamforce event and furiously blogging about what they’re hearing. One of the posts that caught my attention was from Mike Porter, who sat in Dr. […]

  It seems like every other day we’re reading about pharmaceutical companies developing mobile apps, or at the very least, investing in companies that develop them. And that’s for good reason: They work. They help researchers learn about disorders. They help educate patients on their conditions and provide treatment recommendations. They help with patient adherence. […]

  Keith Lovell just left Shazam, the company behind the popular app that magically tells you the artist performing the song playing in the background at Cheesecake Factory. With almost a decade as the company’s CFO, he chose to join TrialReach, a technology company focused on helping patients find the clinical trials they’re eligible for, based on […]

  This is fascinating on many levels. On July 31, 2015, the FDA has approved – for the first time in history – a drug that is developed on a 3-D printer. Not a medical device or a toy figurine; a drug. Aprecia Pharmaceuticals is the maker of SPRITAM, which is designed to treat seizures […]

  Ed Miseta, Chief Editor of Clinical Leader, recently interviewed Mike McKay, Associate Director of Operational Excellence for Shire Pharmaceuticals, on his view of the clinical IT space and how it’s affecting his company. Here are several takeaways from his interview: 

  Let’s face it, anything with “99+” in the title is catchy. That’s why we used it for our upcoming 99+ Siebel CTMS Best Practices You Should Follow webinar. We wanted you to know how content-rich the webinar will be, whether you’re a current user of Oracle’s clinical trial management system (CTMS) or in the […]

  I’m sitting at my desk thinking to myself: Why don’t I see many ads trying to recruit patients for clinical trials? “Many” is actually an overstatement. I rarely see them. Anywhere. And that’s a problem. I’m fairly healthy, but I have some issues. I’m slowing balding. I suffer from heartburn. Sometimes, I have debilitating […]

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

  While pharmaceutical companies are still trying to figure out whether they should partner with companion diagnostic makers, acquire them, or simply begin developing their own tests, one thing remains certain: companion diagnostics are here to stay. 

  There’s a lot of talk these days about digital transformation: changing the way companies interact with their constituents. In general, the movement has not focused on specific groups of people…until now. 

  Bayer. Then Abbott, Roche, and Lilly. And then the rest. Reputation Institute, a research and advisory firm that focuses on tackling and analyzing the reputation of companies worldwide, released its annual ranking of the most reputable pharmaceutical companies in the world. 

  You’ve heard that saying before, right? Okay, it’s slightly different than the original one, which refers to IBM (one of our partners, too). But it’s true: to our knowledge, no client has ever regretted their implementation of the Google Search Appliance (GSA) solution. In fact, it’s quite the contrary. We consistently hear positive feedback […]