Posts Tagged ‘Oracle’

For those in the healthcare industry, topics such as population health, precision medicine and connected care have been top of mind, and rightly so. While these topics create a lot of buzz in the industry, it is the foundational capabilities of an organization that are key to making population health, precision medicine and connected care […]

When it comes to choosing the right Cloud BI platform, there is usually a trade off between governance and centralization on one hand and agility on the other. BI software vendors like Tableau and Qlik, that are relatively newer to the game than traditional BI platforms, have changed the rules of what defines a better BI […]

  If you’ve been waiting to implement Argus Safety 8.x or upgrade your existing environment, the wait is finally over. While the new version was released last year, it takes several months to build a comprehensive validation suite, and I’m happy to announce that Perficient’s life sciences group has completed that task. On top of […]

  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. 

  Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, as well as our own clinical and safety systems. The systems covered in our review are: 

  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 […]

  Last year, I wrote about Proteus, the company behind the FDA-cleared ingestible sensor that helps monitor patients’ adherence to medication. At that time, the company was running clinical trials in the US, whereas in 2012, the company’s platform was already deployed in the UK. 

  Risk-based monitoring (RBM) continues to be a hot topic among sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) for a variety of reasons, including the time- and cost-savings it can offer, as well as its ability to help keep patients safe. Last week, Ashok Ghone, Ph.D., vice president of global services at MakroCare USA, wrote a […]

  According to IBM, we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. And, 90% of the data that exists today, whether found in your clinical systems, on social media, or on your mobile devices, has been gathered within the last two years. All of that is what we call “big data.” As the volume […]

Enterprise Design in EBS is one of the first things you tackle when beginning a new client engagement. It will likely include chart of accounts design, number of business groups, ledgers, legal entities, operating units (OU), and inventory organizations. This document will brush lightly on a few of these areas but will focus primarily on […]

  An interesting thing happened in pharma and investing. It involved Regeneron and their July 24, 2015 FDA-approved cholesterol drug, Praluent. Forbes outlined the situation, which caused Regeneron stock to drop significantly, in a January 6, 2016 article. According to Matthew Herper, a Forbes columnist, investors got a hold of data from the FDA’s Adverse […]

The intent of this document is provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of Oracle’s Cross Validation Rules, enriched with lessons learned from actual implementations.  Matt Makowsky is an Oracle Financial Applications Consultant with 17 years experience and a Senior Solutions Architect with Perficient.  Feel free to ask him any questions in the comments section below […]