As a user of 23andMe since 2008, I’ve been closely following the company, especially since the FDA told them in 2013 to stop marketing their personal genetics testing service. At last, the FDA has given 23andMe the green light. Not surprisingly, the positive news pushed the cost of the genetics test from $99 to […]
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Oracle’s Big Data Discovery in the Cloud
Larry Ellison ends his welcome keynote at Oracle Open World on Sunday evening with Big Data. He announces 2 new cloud services from Oracle related to big data: 1. Big Data Preparation: A cloud product that serves to prepare, repair, enrich, govern and publish data before its ready for analysis. For instance if you are […]
The Smart Way To Find Qualified Patients For Your Clinical Trials
I’ve written a number of blog posts on the challenges of clinical trial recruitment, and that’s for good reason. According to Dr. Steven Alberts, Chair of Medical Oncology with the Mayo Clinic, only 5% of cancer patients ever enroll in a trial. On top of that, only a fraction of all trials ever complete […]
Business Optimization: Azure Powered SharePoint Site Provisioning
Do you have a Hybrid SharePoint environment, utilizing both SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises? Do you have a process for self-service site provisioning? Are you looking to optimize your SharePoint administration? Have you heard of Office PnP? Hopefully the answer to most of those questions is yes. Office PnP is community driven open source project […]
A Modern Approach to Financial Reports Reconciliation
Gone are the days when several spreadsheets, pen and paper, and calculators are needed to reconcile financial reports. A common challenge in financial reporting is validating that what gets reported on executive dashboards matches with more detailed financial statements and transaction level reporting. What aggravates this endeavor is the fact that executive level dashboards are […]
Your Intranet Is Not The Only One That Stinks
Last week, Perficient announced that it purchased Rise Foundation, a pre-configured and enhanced version of Microsoft SharePoint, from Blue Rooster. Rise Foundation provides companies with an intranet solution that has the look and feel users expect in today’s digital world. In addition to the impressive UI, the solution enables companies to be more productive […]
Performance Management for Post-Acute Healthcare Organizations
According to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about 60 percent of individuals over 65 will require some type of long-term care services during their lifetime and over 40 percent will receive care in a nursing home for some period.1 Through the Medicare Care Choices Model, in conjunction with payment reform initiatives, (CMS) there is […]
Azure Powered Rights Management and Document Tracking
Moving your data to the cloud is not a trivial task, not only from technical standpoint but even from user adoption and business justification. Every organization deal with their challenges in different ways, some take the route of implementing least disruptive workload like exchange (mail) and some go with higher business impact workload like SharePoint Online. Which ever route […]
Tackling Rare Diseases With Gene Therapy
A couple of weeks ago, I shared some statistics that I learned from an FDA blog post about rare diseases. While those numbers will make you cringe, Pfizer will give you hope. They, along with Spark Therapeutics, are teaming up to develop treatments for rare diseases, like hemophilia, through gene therapy. Gene therapy is […]
Implement Cloud ERP in 8 Weeks or Less | Part 4 of 5
How should you best navigate Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI)? What expectations should you set for your OTBI project? Samantha German delivers expert insights in this 6-minute video. What’s New at Oracle OpenWorld 2015? Find out.
Study Confirms Use Of Clinical Systems Has Increased
Last week, I attended a webinar that showcased the results of a study on the adoption of clinical trial software in life sciences. The study was conducted by a working group led by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, CDISC, and Oracle Health Sciences, and the results reiterated what we already […]
Predictive Analytics: Higher Ed’s Moneyball?
Yes, I admit it. I listen to NPR most evenings. I suppose I prefer my news read to me by people speaking softly very close into the microphone. Tonight on NPR’s All Things Considered I listened to the latest installment in their Ideas series which explores innovation in education. Neal Phillips, English professor at Valencia College […]