May 8th 2024
Company's annual Commercial Summit updates Veeva Vault CRM status, along with AI partnerships.
April 17th 2024
Panel discussion uncovers how to alter one’s digital know-how for use in temperature-controlled supply chain.
Masterclass session addresses looking beyond a dashboard by added capabilities with added value.
April 15th 2024
Results of the trial suggest that early intervention for intracerebral hemorrhage using parafascicular surgery were safe.
April 11th 2024
Companies striving for transformed and targeted growth are exploring strategies that include partnerships, artificial intelligence, increased efficiencies, and competitive intelligence.
Getting Physician Databases Right
The seemingly routine process of identifying and locating prescribing physicians is becoming a critical industry function
The Path Ahead for Enterprise Computing
As IT vendors leap into cloud computing, clients in life sciences struggle to keep the data flowing through the organizations
Software as a Service (SaaS) Will Show Robust Growth But Is Not a 'Panacea,' Says Gartner
Research group finds ‘bad practices’ in current implementations as market grows to $8.5 billion
Serialization Efforts Energize Track-and-Trace Technology
By fits and starts, pharma and healthcare providers are moving ahead on IT technologies to layer track-and-trace capabilities on supply chains
The Patient-Level Approach to Studying Healthcare
Longitudinal patient-level data answer pressing questions about patient safety, outcomes and medication acceptance
Leveraging the EHR to Advance Clinical Research
Converging the processes and data from EHRs and from the electronic data-capture (EDC) of the clinical research environment could change the paradigm of drug development and safety
Revenue Leakage in Biopharma Distribution Channels Is $11 Billion Annually, Says IDC Health Insights
Old software and poor data quality cause both revenue losses and extra expense to reconcile claims. Will serialized packages provide an eventual cure?
Impax Labs Enjoys the Fruits of Its IBM Cognos Investment
With limited IT resources, the company is rolling out one business-intelligence application after another
Short Takes
Enterprise resource planning
GHX Electronic Trading Platform Gains More Healthcare Participation
Pharma industry involvement in the supply-chain transaction service remains low
Make Adverse Events and Customer Complaints Part of a Holistic Quality Management System
Usually associated with manufacturing or laboratory processes, quality systems can improve post-marketing compliance efforts
IBM: Pharma Is Good on Supplier Coordination, Poor on Customer Collaboration
Industry survey shows strengths and weaknesses of current IT support of supply chains
Manufacturing IT Association Sponsors Industry-Wide Performance Survey
How to correlate plant performance to business performance
Systech Expands Functionality of its Serialized Product Tracking Application
With new serialization-software release, Systech promotes ‘near-line’ applications
Tracking the Evolution of Oncology Drug Prescribing
A fast-growing market supports more, and more comprehensive, data services
A Caution Flag for the Electronic-Medical Records Bandwagon
Deloitte’s annual study of information security trends finds gaping holes in network security
The Landscape of Enterprise IT Applications for Life Sciences
New IDC study finds that Oracle is the now the top life-sciences IT vendor; meanwhile, are there ‘demons’ in the pharma supply chain?
Building the IT Foundation for the Next-Generation Sales Force
The marketplace requirements for sales force structures are changing faster than the industry is evolving
The Eventual Winner in Electronic Medical Records Could Be . . . McKesson
War-gaming analyst picks the drug distributor over Microsoft, Allscripts and other EMR players
ClearOrbit Rolls Up More Supply Chain IT Processes
New parent, Take Solutions, adds biopharma application expertise
Automating the Business-Development Process
Can software tools help manage business partnerships?
SAP and Teradata Partner on Data Warehousing
Integrated offering target business intelligence applications
Supply Chain Planning Takes on An International Flavor
WAM Systems and Ortems link up for joint IT solutions
The Shape of the Electronic Medical Record Market
More Web-Based Businesses Compete for Access to Physicians
Meanwhile, Ziment offers tools for assessing physician communications
Data Virtualization Comes to Biopharma
Innovative middleware lowers the administrative burden of managing large databases
Healthcare Information Technology Gets A Boost From Obama Reinvestment Law
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocates $18 billion for HIT
Wyeth loses Supreme Court case over 'implied' pre-emption
Expect a flood of product-liability suits in the aftermath of Wyeth vs. Levine
Industry, regulators hit reset button on product serialization
While California’s e-pedigree initiative sits on a shelf, actions in Washington and Brussels point to renewed efforts for track-and-trace of pharmaceuticals