Operations

The Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), an academic research hospital designed and founded by Jon Huntsman, Sr., a cancer survivor, well-known businessman, and the father of Utah’s past governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., recently put out a heartwarming commercial that showcases why it’s different from any other cancer treatment center. Aside from the unique look and feel of […]

A major part of the case management process is to ensure that every adverse event term is coded appropriately to the medical dictionary MedDRA. Oracle’s Argus Safety makes coding verbatim terms quite simple. The system integrates very smoothly with the medical dictionaries MedDRA and WHO Drug. Per current MSSO Points to Consider (MSSO, 2014), adverse […]

Many of you have already heard by now: Stuart Scott, the brilliant ESPN sportscaster and anchor, passed away last weekend from cancer. You don’t have to know what he did for a living, the type of cancer he had, how old he was when he died, or how many loved ones he left behind, to […]

Breathometer is at it again. After the highly successful launch of the world’s first smartphone breathalyzer, the first company that got all Shark Tank investors to put in a total of $1 million has just created another Indiegogo campaign for a new product, Mint. Mint will be a tiny Bluetooth LE medical device (Class I) that’s […]

A clinical trial management system (CTMS) is a worthwhile investment on its own. After all, it’s the backbone of any clinical operations program. But, there are lots of ways to squeeze even more out of an already-great CTMS, like custom modules, integrations with other systems, and integrations with partner systems, like your top 3 preferred […]

There’s been a lot of hoopla around the NFL and their new partnership with Microsoft surrounding the Surface tablet, now deemed the official tablet of the NFL and, of course, Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson’s favorite toy. The deal, in part, outfits NFL teams with tablets to improve communication on the field, photo viewing, and […]

As we end 2014, I wanted to look back at some of the great Office 365 feature releases of 2014. Not all of these features are fully rolled out, some are still in preview, while others we will see in early 2015. Earlier this year, Microsoft finally gave us the Office 365 Roadmap where we can now […]

The year 2014 just ended. 2015 is already looking like another year of data intensive initiatives.  Looking at the initiatives and investments happened in 2014, Big Data will continue to be on the top, and so does the cloud. Enterprise Data investment continues to grow as the laggards in technology are warming up to the Information […]

In my first post today, I talked about Office Mix – new functionality to record audio and video for your PowerPoint presentations. Another new feature of the Office portfolio you probably haven’t heard about is Office Sway. When your ideas are born, you want to explore, visualize and share them—quickly and easily, wherever you happen […]

As 2014 comes to a close, we’re taking a look at our most popular blog posts of the year. Here are the top five SharePoint related posts, in no particular order: SPC 2014 Roadmap Updates – SharePoint 2015 Announced! While attending SharePoint Conference 2014, Joe Crabtree summarized Microsoft’s goals for Office, which Jared Spataro shared […]

There was a lot of talk about Healthcare and Patient Portals in 2014.  Health insurance exchange portals started to mature a little bit with healthcare.gov finally coming on line.  The Affordable Care Act requires providers to provide access to medical records for patients and many have looked to implement patient portals. Looking back, here are […]

Successful Enterprises compete on many capabilities ranging from product excellence, customer service and marketing to name a few. Increasingly the back office / Information Technology (IT) is becoming a strategic player in the Digital Business Model which supports these key capabilities. In other words back office/IT Capability itself is becoming a differentiator. All of the […]