Data and Technology

Compiling and maintaining lists of healthcare provider contacts is a bigger and more important task than ever

While 'data mining' is the catchphrase of the moment for business analytics, some pharma companies are finding value in mining their channel data assets

‘Class of Trade’ is a murky element of contracts and channel analytics that can have important legal implications

Long used in clinical research, cloud computing is now entering commercial and business applications

New HDMA 2011-2012 HDMA Factbook finds gradual growth in IT-based collaborations

SAS’ new Center for Health Analytics will expand statistical applications

Cloud-based collaboration system provides for production, status and now quality interactions between business partners

A pronounced fascination with Apple Computer's iPad is focusing sales-IT efforts on mobility and data access; meanwile, online e-detailing offerings win more acceptance

GHX, a major player in med-surg supply management for healthcare providers, looks to extend its e-commerce platform to handling pharma e-pedigrees

The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs’ (NCPDP) Billing Unit Standard (BUS) brings order to pharmaceutical transactions. Between it, the National Drug Code (NDC) and the Structured Product Label (SPL), all necessary commercial information about a product is known.

Industry analysts see more cloud computing, more corporate data-sharing

EDI use is slowly increasing, while GS1 standards compliance is skimpy

The seemingly routine process of identifying and locating prescribing physicians is becoming a critical industry function

As IT vendors leap into cloud computing, clients in life sciences struggle to keep the data flowing through the organizations

Research group finds ‘bad practices’ in current implementations as market grows to $8.5 billion

By fits and starts, pharma and healthcare providers are moving ahead on IT technologies to layer track-and-trace capabilities on supply chains

Longitudinal patient-level data answer pressing questions about patient safety, outcomes and medication acceptance

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

Old software and poor data quality cause both revenue losses and extra expense to reconcile claims. Will serialized packages provide an eventual cure?

With limited IT resources, the company is rolling out one business-intelligence application after another

Enterprise resource planning

Pharma industry involvement in the supply-chain transaction service remains low

Usually associated with manufacturing or laboratory processes, quality systems can improve post-marketing compliance efforts

Industry survey shows strengths and weaknesses of current IT support of supply chains

How to correlate plant performance to business performance

With new serialization-software release, Systech promotes ‘near-line’ applications

A fast-growing market supports more, and more comprehensive, data services

Deloitte’s annual study of information security trends finds gaping holes in network security

New IDC study finds that Oracle is the now the top life-sciences IT vendor; meanwhile, are there ‘demons’ in the pharma supply chain?

The marketplace requirements for sales force structures are changing faster than the industry is evolving