A new survey of 500+ clinical research site professionals outlines the  impact of complex, clinical trials in clinical trial sites. The survey focused on 3-year trial trends and found key challenges in subject recruitment/retention and tracking and reporting data. Increased complexity also impacted trial financials– especially negotiating contracts and managing profitability. The December, 2010 survey [...]

Dr. Pauline Chen in the NY Times reports that “When Patients Share Their Stories, Health May Improve”. HC Catalyst uses the same methodology to increase patient adherence to prescription medicines. hcCatalyst Adherence Driver uses patients to motivate other patients to stay adherent. And, we do this without remunerating, scripting or training. It’s genuine and without [...]

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (NYSE: AZN) and HealthCore, Inc., the health outcomes research subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP), announced a collaborative agreement to conduct real-world studies designed to determine how to most effectively and economically treat disease Unlike controlled clinical trials, real-world evidence studies use observational data such as electronic medical records, claims information and [...]

Ever heard of people getting obnoxious amount of money to conduct research or get a PhD for pointless research. Thats what came to my mind when I first came across this news from IBM. Just remind these were some of the winning ideas that funded by Government in US for Research papers and PhDs 1. [...]

OFFICE OF , INSPECTOR GENERAL of US Department of Health and Human Services, released a report on the national incidence of adverse events for hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries, the preventability of such events, and associated costs to Medicare. The report released last month month found that one in seven of the patients experienced an adverse event such as excessive [...]

The implementation of this platform enables rapid study set-up, automated CRF generation and better study recruitment and communication tools for general and special populations. Mobile workstations allow for rapid data entry and data is captured directly using bar codes and interfaces to medical equipment, such as blood pressure monitors. The Initiator platform also interfaces with [...]

Sanofi-Aventis and Oxford University have entered into an agreement with INDOX, an academic oncology network to conduct oncology clinical and translation research in India. The company said that through this partnership, Sanofi-Aventis will have access to experience and expertise of India’s top oncologists which will help the company in conducting clinical research. “The collaboration between sanofi-aventis, [...]

Vicki Phelan, Managing Director, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Practice with Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research Trends in the life sciences and pharma research and development  outsourcing (RDO) The complete report is available at http://goo.gl/MgVBu

Oracle Siebel CRM is the base application behind Oracle’s Siebel CTMS. Prepackaged OBIEE Applications does not have a module for Clinical Analytics and so there is a need to develop a complete custom OBI application in order to accomplish the requirements. This was untill Oracle has introduced Oracle Clinical Development Analytics (CDA) which is based on [...]

one of the very few interesting article by Microsoft Engineers on Clinical Research Industry. Certainly interesting as it is written by none other than      Les Jordan-CTO, Life Sciences Industry Unit at Microsoft . Microsoft and IBM had much longer and deepr association with Lifescience/Healthcare/Bioinformatics industry than Oracle. But I love to see microsoft [...]

I had posted last month about the Pegasystem pharmacovigilance solution. Pega Systems the industry leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software solutions, released a Pharmacovigilance case processing software. Pega has experience in clinical trial space, specifically in Clinical Trial Management. The solution is designed for rapid deployment to quickly leverage existing adverse event processing rules and requirements and can [...]

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings…announced…a collaboration between Esoterix Clinical Trials Services, a division of LabCorp, and Clearstone Central Laboratories, a global central laboratory specializing in drug development and pharmaceutical services.…The collaboration provides LabCorp with access to Clearstone’s global network of labs, including China, France, Singapore and Canada, in addition to LabCorp’s existing labs in the [...]

The multinational pharma companies are planning to approach the health ministry with a proposal calling for the utilisation of the 1.7 lakh post offices across the country to distribute over the counter drugs. The move if implemented would increase the reach of OTC drugs by 20%. The plan initially submiited 2 years ago requires  the approval [...]

Scott Stern, Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management, speaks on the topic of, “New Drug Development: From Laboratory to Blockbuster to Generic,” at the Judicial Symposium on The Pharmaceutical Industry: Economics, Regulation, and Legal Issues, hosted by the Northwestern Law Judicial Education Program

There have been several cases where Fraud in clinical trial has questioned the  Integrity of Data and ethics , when conducting clinical trial in India, which have been used by crusaders against outsourcing. But the new evidence suggest that the clinical trial fraud is more prevalent even in US. The most recent being MannKind Corporation Accused [...]

Had an interesting chat with the CEO of the US based IT service provider for clinical research industry in June. Apparently the company a SalesForce.com partner introduces new CTMS application in India. Just came to know that they are going commercial this month. The applications is aimed at clinical trial management, Study site management and Patient Recruitment [...]

Implementation of a computer-automated safety surveillance system of clinical outcomes registries for cardiovascular devices resulted in the identification of a drug-releasing stent that had significantly higher rates of major adverse cardiac events than similar stents “Monitoring the safety of approved medical products is of vital public health importance, given that in clinical practice such medical [...]

Dr. Mehdi Khalid Vice President, Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Business Unit Asia Paci?c and Japan at Oracle about key aspects of healthcare IT market in India & Oracle’s presence in this space. DownloadHealth India 2010