Posts Tagged ‘Life Sciences’

My recent trip to a new client in Hull, United Kingdom, reminded me of a Harvard Business Review management tip that is hard to argue. It conveyed three ways to start your client relationship right to ensure success: Make an accurate first impression. Make them feel comfortable, but also set clear expectations about what you can […]

In recent years, we have seen many changes to the global “face” of product safety (FDA, 2009). Arguably, these changes modify the traditional focus of product safety from a case management and alert reporting strategy to include a more preventative, pharmacovigilance strategic focus. In order to successfully adopt these changes, it is critical that we […]

There’s a clear trend in the life sciences industry toward outsourcing clinical trial management to clinical research organizations (CROs). If you decide to join the movement, how should you go about getting data from your CROs into your clinical trial management system (CTMS)? The most common method is to collect reports from CROs in the […]

The benefits of minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) are clear: fewer complications, shorter lengths of hospital stays, fewer readmissions, and lower total costs. However, the adoption rate for MIS is surprisingly low. A large medical device client of ours discovered that fewer than 30% of the tens of millions of potential procedures (of interest to them) […]

Inc. magazine recently released its list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States for 2014, ranking companies by overall revenue growth over a three-year period. For the fifth year in a row, BioPharm Systems, a life sciences IT consulting company that Perficient acquired in April 2014, made the list. This accolade is […]

In a few days, Perficient will be attending the 19th Oracle Health Sciences User Group (OHSUG) annual meeting in St. Louis. I have been privileged to attend all previous user group meetings, beginning with the very first one back in 1996 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Approximately 100 people gathered in a conference room at Parke-Davis […]

If you are attending Oracle OpenWorld, the Perficient team extends a warm welcome to visit with us. We have been attending OOW for over a decade and anticipate that this year will be equally brilliant, especially with the tremendous focus on hot issues around cloud, big data, connected consumers, customer experience, digital enterprises and so […]

Life sciences companies are devoted to developing sophisticated drugs, services and other therapies, yet many still rely on spreadsheets, paper, and overly-complicated homegrown systems to manage activities related to clinical trials. It’s hard to believe, considering the myriad benefits that a tried-and-true clinical trial management system (CTMS) can provide. It’s widely understood that a CTMS […]

With a variety of clinical trial management systems (CTMS) on the market, determining which one is right for your organization can be difficult. Ovum, a leading technology research and advisory firm, recently released Decision Matrix: Selecting a CTMS Solution, 2013–14, a report that covers the clinical IT landscape, outlines critical factors that life sciences companies […]