On September 4, 2017, Novartis announced that its current CEO, Joseph Jimenez, will step down from his role in February 2018. He will be replaced by Dr. Vasant Narasimhan, the company’s current global head of drug development and chief medical officer. The backgrounds of the two executives couldn’t be starker. Mr. Jiminez has very little […]
Life Sciences
FDA Ciphers Update: What To Consider If You Have Argus Safety
The FDA has decided that it will update the ciphers for their Electronic Submissions Gateway (ESG), but what does this mean for you? Here is the message that was received: FDA Electronic Submissions Gateway (ESG) will update ciphers and SSL protocols in Production on Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 9:00 PM EST. Please make sure […]
How To Fix Slow Subject Recruitment At Clinical Sites
Even the most promising clinical sites can have trouble recruiting enough eligible subjects. Pressure from upper management and/or the sponsor organization to meet recruitment targets causes stress and anxiety for study managers, which in turns strains their relationships with underperforming sites. This tension can be alleviated by helping sites: Broaden their pool of potential subjects […]
Oracle Clinical 5.2 Released: 7 Changes To Know
It’s been almost two years since I wrote that Oracle Clinical and Oracle Remote Data Capture (RDC) 5.1 was released. Well, today I can say that 5.2 has been released and is available to anyone who is looking to upgrade. While 5.2 is not considered a major release, it is an important one, as it […]
7 Ways To Fix Your Relationships With Clinical Sites
In our nearly 20 years of working with the life sciences industry, we’ve spoken with countless pharmaceutical, medical device, and contract research organizations (CROs) about their relationships with clinical sites and investigators. We’ve listened to their struggles and the things they’ve done to try to make things better, including what’s worked and what hasn’t. We’ve […]
How To Change The Column Text Length In Siebel
In Siebel, we often find ourselves creating new extension columns and reusing unused business component fields for different purposes. But, how do you manage a situation in which an existing field has been created with a column text length that is larger than what you want? Let us look at an example. In this scenario, […]
Release Notes: Oracle/Perficient’s Clinical Apps [October 2017]
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: Oracle Systems Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Perficient Systems ASCEND (Siebel CTMS) Generally speaking, we review release […]
Top 5 Pharma & Medical Device Blog Posts From September 2017
Now that October 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 September – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. How Merck & Facebook Are […]
Argus Safety 8.1.1 – 2 Things To Know
Oracle Argus Safety 8.1.1 was officially released today, so I thought I would share a question that came up recently from a hosting customer. The customer asked us what the difference between Argus Safety 8.1 and 8.1.1 is. While there are your standard bug fixes and improvements, there are two significant changes that companies should […]
5 Key Takeaways About Customer Experience (CX) In Life Sciences
The previous 12 posts in this series have taken us on quite a journey. We started by defining the term “customer” in the context of pharma and med device, discussed why “customer” and “customer experience” (CX) matter in life sciences, and rounded it out by walking through each of the seven dimensions of CX maturity […]
Customer Experience (CX) Dimension #7: Culture
The seventh (and final!) of the seven customer experience (CX) dimensions discussed in Perficient Digital’s CX guide is Culture. Even though it comes at the end, numerically, if you look at the diagram, it leads right back into strategy and the rest of the dimensions. That’s because it’s culture that actually keeps the CX wheel […]
How To Streamline Investigator-Initiated Trial (IIT) Proposals
Imagine with me: One of your experienced investigators comes up with a brilliant idea for an off-label use of one of your medications. He logs in and navigates to your online IIT proposal form, which only he and other experienced investigators can see. He begins completing the form online using interactive prompts, and uploads supporting […]