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My last bog talked about mitigating data overload with proactive pharmacovigilance (PV). The next blog in this series analyzes the history of PV, AEs and clinical therapeutics. As early as the 1980s, it was recognized that prostaglandins were important in renal function, especially in hypertensive patients. Prostaglandins preserve and maintain renal blood flow and thus […]

Digital transformation in the financial services industry is about what banks can, and should, be doing to plan and prepare for the future. And if you’re preparing for the future, it’s essential to know that 5G cell service and the smartphone of the future will have a significant impact on banks and their digital transformation […]

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, […]

In uncertain times like these its essential that we consider the disruption that is happening and take a nimble approach to help Organizations including my own by driving analytics and insights across the various Lines of Business. How can we take all the Public data that is available from John Hopkins, CDC, WHO and various […]

This first week of April, if you are a hospital system, you are likely in the process of moving all available visits to virtual care; with in-person interactions limited due to the coronavirus crisis, virtual care is now the only way to get most patients the care they need. Moreover, it’s an important time to […]

Join us and our partner Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a virtual Q&A session on Wednesday, April 15. AWS will feature one of our experts to speak on a panel about the evolution and progress being made to solve critical business problems such as customer personalization and forecasting through the use of data science. Perficient […]

As the world has changed and evolved with the global COVID-19 pandemic, so has healthcare’s information and content management. In the beginning, the focus was on “the Content.” This then became the “the Right Content,” followed by, “the Right Content for Everyone,” which eventually turned to “the Right Content for the Right Audience!” And now, […]

Some business disruptions can be planned for— material shortages, natural disasters, compliance or fulfillment roadblocks. But what about the obstacles we don’t see coming? The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has touched nearly every business in the world in some way or another, and in the face of such an unprecedented global crisis, many are […]

Surveillance of pharmacovigilance (PV) and product quality-complaint (PQC) data is not a new activity. For years we have known that adverse events temporal to drugs occur. Moreover, they are consistently underreported, impacting analysis of the data in unknown ways. Nearly every regulatory authority across the world has guidance and requirements in place for marketing authorization […]

Previously, I analyzed how dirty, or bad data is the enemy of machine learning. The final blog of this series describes the advantages of artificial intelligence and machine learning in financial services. Many financial services organizations have already begun to take advantage of ML technology because of its proven ability to reduce operational costs, increase […]

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (social distancing?), you know that healthcare providers worldwide are facing major challenges related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. One of these challenges is the rapid spike in call volume overwhelming call centers and providers. Many of the calls pouring in require human support to answer questions, but staffing […]

There is no denying that user-friendly enterprise search tools are key to customer satisfaction. But in healthcare, making the right choice in your digital search strategy can be challenging, given the wide range and complexity of search solutions in the marketplace. When evaluating solutions, it’s important to keep the focus on the voice of the […]