Life Sciences

  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. 

  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: 

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 […]

  We’ve done it so many times, we don’t even have to think about it anymore. We’ve got our Siebel CTMS implementation process down pat and it’s marvelously efficient. How do we do it? It starts with our pre-configured version of Oracle’s Siebel Clinical, something we call ASCEND. Combine ASCEND with our hosting services, and […]

  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. 

  If there’s one company that believes in the digital health revolution, it’s LEO Pharma. According to news sources and a press release from the Denmark-based company, last year LEO Pharma invested $3.4M in SkinVision, the developer of a mobile app that helps detect melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer. Simply snap a picture […]

  Most digital transformation initiatives begin with customer journey mapping, a process that helps fully understand the dynamics of your target customer and their behavior. Journey mapping connects the dots from your customer’s initial interaction with your brand, through their entire experience with your brand via multiple channels (e.g., website, mobile app, phone call, direct […]

  Risk-based monitoring (RBM) continues to be a hot topic among sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) for a variety of reasons, including the time- and cost-savings it can offer, as well as its ability to help keep patients safe. Last week, Ashok Ghone, Ph.D., vice president of global services at MakroCare USA, wrote a […]

  In today’s digital age, consumers have evolved to become far more independent and self-sufficient. They now expect access to information, services, and products to be quick, easy, useful, engaging, and even entertaining. Businesses that are not yet meeting these new expectations are falling behind the curve. 

  Several days ago, I wrote about how the life sciences industry, including government organizations, is struggling when it comes to the reporting of clinical trial results to the ClinicalTrials.gov database. Unfortunately, other issues plague the industry, including one that The New York Times reported on January 14, 2016. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found […]

  According to IBM, we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. And, 90% of the data that exists today, whether found in your clinical systems, on social media, or on your mobile devices, has been gathered within the last two years. All of that is what we call “big data.” As the volume […]

  Outside of work, it’s obvious that we have become a digital society. We use mobile devices to guide us through rush hour traffic, to find a great new spot for lunch, to research recipes for dinner, to do our shopping, to track our exercise, to entertain our children (and ourselves!), to connect with friends […]