Life Sciences

We’ve talked a lot in this blog about the use of electronic health records (EHRs) in clinical trials. Recently, my colleague wrote about it on our healthcare blog, so, I thought I would share her post with my pharma and CRO friends. While our previous posts focused on the use of EHR for subject recruitment […]

Over the past several weeks, I’ve published a series of posts that focus on segments of an article published by McKinsey & Company called “How pharma can win in a digital world.” (See the bottom of this post for links to the previous posts.) At the end of the McKinsey article, the authors describe “three […]

I came across an article that celebrated Genentech’s 40 years in business with a few fun facts and stories about the biotechnology pioneer: Founded on April 7, 1976 The name Genentech stems from GENetic ENgineering TECHnology The company was founded with a $1,000 investment in 1976 by Robert Swanson, a venture capitalist, and Herbert Boyer, […]

A couple of weeks ago, I took an in-depth look at the second of three critical themes for success in the digital age, as identified by McKinsey & Company through interviews with 20 pharma executives: It is time to reimagine them as solutions companies, not asset companies. In today’s post, I’d like to take a […]

The other day, I was on a business development call in which the Appian platform was discussed. Appian happens to be a “Leader” in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites. Not too shabby. The presenter talked about Perficient’s successes with Appian in financial services and healthcare, but when I heard him […]

The deployment of business process management (BPM) strategies in a digital world revolves heavily around leveraging software platforms to automate pieces of or even complete processes. Whether you’re in clinical operations, safety and pharmacovigilance, or a back-office department, BPM technology solutions can be used to address virtually any business challenge that involves a process. Join […]

John Stossel, the host of a Fox News weekly program that highlights current consumer issues, was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. The good news is that it was caught early. It wasn’t his diagnosis that went viral, but rather the article he wrote from his hospital bed. “I have to say, the hospital’s customer service […]

In a recent post, I took an in-depth look at the first of three critical themes for success in the digital age, as identified by McKinsey & Company through interviews with 20 pharma executives: 

If there’s one list that gets a lot of touch attention in life sciences, it’s Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Life Sciences. While the name of the list helps grab attention on its own, the companies it features are typically just as interesting. This year’s list happens to carry a few companies that we’ve blogged about, […]

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 Accel-Account Manager Accel-Copy ASCEND (Siebel CTMS) Generally speaking, […]

Now that May 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 April – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. From Laptops To Tablets: Eli Lilly Bought […]

We frequently blog about FDA Warning Letters and other regulatory and compliance issues that revolve around traditional pharmaceuticals and medical devices. However, one product segment that we haven’t yet discussed is digital health. This is because digital health products are fairly new to the market and most are still trying to figure out how FDA […]