Life Sciences

Attending the Oracle Health Sciences Connect 2021 conference session “The Importance of the Unified Platform Approach” triggered me to think about the overall clinical trial life cycle. The COVID-19 pandemic has set an expectation for companies to develop vaccines and other health solutions for their customers more quickly. This is only possible by having an […]

Life sciences organizations typically manage their IT infrastructure and applications in silos. They implement disparate applications and manage the content and process within those applications separately. They then deploy integrations between those applications to streamline processes and share content and data with different business areas. Much of this work, including the development of integration tools […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]

During a session at this year’s Oracle Health Sciences Connect conference, Oracle presented recent and upcoming regulatory updates from regulatory agencies around the world for safety. Due to the pandemic and new COVID vaccines, the regulatory update that piqued my interest most was related to the Postmarketing Safety Reporting (PMSR) requirements for Combination Products. The […]

In a landmark effort to both guide and spur artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) development in the medical field, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Based Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) Action Plan. Background The plan was created by the FDA’s Digital Health Center of […]

During Oracle Health Sciences Connect 2021 this week, some Oracle clients have been sharing why they decided that after 20 or so years using InForm, it was time to transition to Clinical One. The technical drivers for making this move include moving off antiquated architecture to a SaaS model with automated system upgrades. The business […]

I am looking forward to hearing from Oracle over the next couple of days at Oracle Health Sciences Connect about the roadmap for Clinical One and Safety One, in addition to customer experiences so far. These innovations could influence how clinical trials are run in the future and enable steps towards the elusive single source […]

For the past year, major health care providers and research centers have been focused on one goal – minimizing the negative effects of the pandemic. One of these providers, Moderna, has been a front runner in the research, development, and dissemination of a successful COVID-19 vaccine. Due to their increased efforts and high demands, they […]

One of the biggest challenges companies face with their SCM applications footprint is moving part or all of it to a cloud-based SaaS/PaaS platform. This decision is sometimes complicated by the fact that on-premise license renewals, de-support notices for earlier versions of EBS, ‘true ups’ for user license fees (especially when there has been significant […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]

David Shuford, Oracle Sales Consulting Director, and I presented a webinar on Oracle’s Clinical One and how Perficient could help companies plan, navigate, and support their transition to the unified clinical development platform. Clinical One helps streamline clinical development by reducing the need for data reconciliation, integration, training, and user support​ across multiple disparate systems. […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]