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. 6 Trends In Life Sciences […]
Posts Tagged ‘clinical data management’
Eat It Up! No More Self-Reporting For Clinical Trial Subjects
Let’s face it, relying on clinical trial participants to self-report their medication intake isn’t ideal. Lots of things can go wrong. Patients can administer medication improperly, avoid taking the medication altogether, or even claim they’ve taken the medication when, in actuality, they haven’t. While there are other means of checking whether patients are taking […]
Why Bother With Computer Systems Validation?
It’s no secret that validation can be a bear. All of that documentation and testing, the multiple phases with pesky transition gates, a million reviews and approvals…it can really slow down an IT project, which often leads to questions about why on Earth we bother with it. Well, it all traces back to rules and regulations […]
It’s Time To Send Your IT Hassles To Someone Else [VIDEO]
The other day, I was watching Cory Johnson interview Bryson Koehler, CTO and CIO of The Weather Company, on Bloomberg West. While the talk focused on The Weather Company’s business model, I thought several points during the discussion were quite relevant to life sciences companies. Frankly, they’re applicable to most industries. The Weather Channel, which […]
Navigating The Road To Creating Custom Roles in OC/RDC
On November 13, 2014, I’ll be delivering Taking Ownership of Custom Database Roles in Oracle Clinical and RDC, a one-hour webinar that’ll cover the following topics: Reasons to create custom roles Process of creating a custom role Granting the necessary access and privileges to a new role Granting the new role to the appropriate user […]
Oops! I Just Deleted Production Data For An EDC Study
Imagine accidently deleting lots of production clinical data. What do you do? How do you recover? Those are the tough questions our client was recently faced with when one of their Oracle Clinical (OC) power users ran the Delete Study Information function in the system with the intention of deleting patient data for only a handful […]
Managing a CDMS is Hard Enough, Let Alone Complex Data Migrations
Senior Management is always looking for answers about what works, what doesn’t, and how best to design and manage clinical trials. In order to get those answers, all of your trial data needs to be in one place and in a consistent format – this is the only way to extract accurate information. But, how […]