Posts Tagged ‘Life Sciences’

In our last “cloud fact or fiction” post, we pointed out that hosting your clinical trial software in the cloud gives companies unparalleled access to their data due to high system uptime and ease of access to systems. This time around, we’ll discuss cloud security. Claim #5: Clinical and safety data in cloud systems is not […]

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 […]

If you’re connected to the life sciences industry in one way or another, odds are you’ve heard the term “21 CFR Part 11.” You may have gathered that it’s a set of regulations related to computer systems, but, unless you work in some sort of compliance group, you might not understand what it’s about or […]

Big pharma is big business. Well, if they have products on the market, that is! So, who were the lucky companies that got novel drugs approved by the FDA in 2014? What were the drugs? And, what were the therapeutic purposes? Flip through the slideshow to get a glimpse of who was popping champagne well […]

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 […]

Validation. Admit it – you cringed a little. It’s almost like a dirty word in our industry. That thing that slows down system implementations. That thing that adds a bunch of time and cost to IT projects. That annoying, but necessary, evil. Well, okay, it’s not really “evil,” per say. It is, after all, designed […]

Here in Perficient’s life sciences practice, we use a defect tracking system as part of our application development process. It helps us keep track of bugs and resolutions as we develop and test, but there’s nothing particularly remarkable about it…except that we use it for another purpose too: to track problems with our QA controlled […]

Last time, we concluded that the costs associated with hosting clinical trial software in the cloud can actually be less than for on-site solutions. In this post, we’ll tackle access to data and system uptime. Claim #4: Clinical or safety data stored in the cloud can be accessed at any time. Fact or fiction? Fact. […]

Pretty bad and pretty funny. That’s how I’d summarize what the websites looked like for these 13 biopharma, medical device, and research organizations when they first made their mark on the World Wide Web. In honor of Throwback Thursday, we used Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to poke fun at the companies many of us have come to […]

The life sciences industry is up against some incredibly high standards from regulatory agencies worldwide – with good reason – so it makes sense that we, in turn, have incredibly high expectations of our vendors, especially IT. Because we have to be able to show complete traceability in our work, we need our software vendors […]

It’s probably a safe assumption that your organization made the switch to an electronic document management system (e.g., SharePoint, Office 365, Documentum, Alfresco, NextDocs, eDOCs DM) some time ago. Take a few minutes and think back on the underlying reasons for that investment. I’m sure the list you came up with includes things like keeping […]

The life sciences industry is one of the most heavily regulated in the world, which can make it a frustrating space to do business. But, retracing the current mass of regulations back to their roots can be like the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down…and might even make you feel kinda good […]