Posts Tagged ‘pharmacovigilance’

For as long as I can remember, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall that put him in a tragic state. This rhyme has always been one of my favorites. The story first appeared in 1870, in James William Elliott‘s National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. Humpty Dumpty is a memorable and versatile teaching lesson, even […]

  The medical information (MI) call center is part of a complex pharmacovigilance system. It may be the only opportunity to gather adverse and product quality data. It’s imperative that it operate efficiently. With a growing number of calls, it’s easy for a center to overrun. That can lead to team burn out, long wait […]

In our recent webinar, “Improve Medical Product Information Sharing With Virtual Agents,” Prabha Ranganathan, Kari Blaho-Owens, and Nico Frantzen discussed the ways that implementing virtual agents in life sciences companies’ call center operations can help to promote pharmacovigilance and more effectively service customers. Below are some of the questions we answered during the webinar and some that […]

Our life sciences and technology experts recently delivered the webinar, “Improve Medical Product Information Sharing With Virtual Agents,” where they discussed how automation and artificial intelligence can be used to optimize call center operations and improve end-user experiences. Here are five key takeaways: Just because a system is powered by AI doesn’t mean you have […]

Kari Blaho-Owens, Ph.D., is Perficient’s Director of Pharmacovigilance, Safety, and Regulatory Affairs. She leads a team that provides PV, regulatory, risk management knowledge, and consulting to pharma and CROs. Perficient also hosts PV-related applications, configure, validate and maintain PV adverse event databases, and reporting solutions. At the end of the day, we contribute to patient […]

Life sciences organizations typically manage their IT infrastructure and applications in silos. They implement disparate applications and manage the content and process within those applications separately. They then deploy integrations between those applications to streamline processes and share content and data with different business areas. Much of this work, including the development of integration tools […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]

Due to social distancing, many of us found ourselves with extra time during COVID-19. Recently on a sunny day, I was prepping some of my beehives for the upcoming winter. (By the way, anyone who thinks beekeeping is easy, please come and help! It’s hot, heavy, complicated, and completely rewarding. It’s the perfect mix of […]