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  While it’s true that both terms include “monitoring,” it’s not true that they’re synonymous. In fact, remote monitoring is actually a subset of risk-based monitoring – a type or form of monitoring, rather than a monitoring strategy, like RBM. 

  Data privacy across all industries continues to be a big concern for everyone. When it comes to the life sciences and healthcare industries, patients are especially worried. They simply are afraid of being identified. In a recent Scientific American article, Adam Tanner discussed the business of buying and selling health data. Health data brokerages […]

  It’s fair, or rather unfair, to say that most of us are affected directly or indirectly by cancer. While oncology treatments continue to be developed at a pace that many therapeutic areas would be envious of, we still have a long way to go. According to the FDA, in 2015, 18 drugs related to […]

  A few days ago, I shared a list, a much smaller list, of unicorn companies that sit in the healthcare and biotechnology industries. To refresh your memory, a unicorn is a technology-related organization with a valuation of more than $1 billion, typically a start-up, and with no real track record of success. In a recent report, […]

  Following an 18-month-long investigation by the United States Senate Committee on Finance, Gilead’s pricing and marketing strategy for its hepatitis drugs, Sovaldi and Harvoni, was deemed one that chooses profit over patient access. In order to appropriately shape policy related to these findings, the Committee has written a letter to the healthcare and patient […]

This is a follow-up to the Part 1, which can be found here. In the previous post, we examined the three major components directly impacting MDM, specifically enterprise dimensions. People, Process and Tools (PPT). We’ll now expand on those components and how DRM solves many of the challenges associated with PPT. To help simplify things […]

  Just hearing the word “risk” can make people feel anxious, so it’s natural that the term “risk-based monitoring” conjures up concern. But, in reality, RBM is actually about mitigating risk in clinical trials. 

  If you’re in the market for a clinical trial management system (CTMS), here’s a Top 10 countdown of reasons why you should choose ASCEND. 

Agility in any marketplace requires a willingness to evolve. With the acquisition of Rise Foundation, Perficient’s Microsoft practice is positioned to create, market, and sell products of its own. Rise Foundation is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that transforms SharePoint for Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 on-premises into an easy-to-use intranet or portal for the business […]

  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 […]

Don’t forget the other parts of this series: Gain Insight Vision and Goals Culture In some ways, this topic is related to culture and highlights that so much of digital transformation does not deal directly with technology.  Our reality is that a change means dealing with people.  People organize in a variety of ways.  Those […]

  Have you heard? Some retail establishments, in countries like the Netherlands, don’t accept cash anymore. As I mentioned in a previous post, digital money is making big waves – everywhere. While it’s starting to make a serious dent in the United States, the use of mobile payments are much more widespread in other countries. […]