Oracle Business Intelligence Enteprise Edition (OBIEE) for Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS)

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 [...]

collaborative clinical trials management software for Central Laboratories

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 [...]

Insurance coverage for healthcare IT software, to protect healthcare IT companies from damages inflicted by their software

Ah. well they should be protected, with the number of physicians unhappy with the Healthcare IT systems rising. We ll thank goodness patients will also get third party coverage if the software errs. Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has established the “Healthcare Information Technology” liability insurance to protect Healthcare IT companies. Over 1,000 companies supply [...]

GSK, MedTrust launch iPhone/iPad app for cancer trials

GlaxoSmithKline has teamed up with MedTrust Online,  provider of specialist data and technology to oncologists, to launch CancerTrialsApp, described as “the first free geo locating cancer clinical trials application” for the Apple iPhone and iPad. The application enables cancer doctors to find and share with their patients information about experimental therapies in clinical trials

National Library of Medicine wants health care organizations to test drive Medical mapping tool

The National Library of Medicine wants health care organizations and vendors to test drive its new mapping tool that covers 5,000 standardized clinical terms , to create a standard medical vocabulary to support applications for electronic health records The Obama administration is distributing more than $19 billion in payments to doctors and hospitals that buy [...]

Data Management and Integration for the Future of Clinical Trials webcast

Upcoming Webcast: Data Management and Integration for the Future of Clinical Trials Attend this interactive webcast presented by Applied Clinical Trials and Oracle Health Sciences featuring speaker Tom O’Leary, Senior Vice President, Data Management, ICON Clinical Research and Claire Castaings, Vice President Worldwide Director, Clinical Data Management Sanofi-Aventis. This session examines the use of the [...]

How should you safely outsource pharmacovigilance to an Indian contract research organization?

Published in hte Indian Journal of Pharmacology. Edwards B. How should you safely outsource pharmacovigilance to an Indian contract research organization?. Indian J Pharmacol 2008;40:24-7 The articles focus on different types of CRO that operate in India and the concerns western companies should address before deciding to oursource the trial to Indian companies. exerpts from [...]

The The Evolving Role Of Pharmacovigilance a discussion with John Loucks, VP of Oracle Health

To gain an understanding of the current state of pharmacovigilance in the industry, Life Science Leader spoke with Sujith Eramangalath, the senior analyst in medical imaging, healthcare IT, and life sciences IT at Frost & Sullivan; Drew Kilpatrick, Ph.D., director of global safety and pharmacovigilance at Kendle; John Loucks, VP of Oracle Health Sciences; Nayan [...]

Oracle and Inforsense Integrating Clinical And Genomics Data for Personalized Medicine

BIO-IT WORLD COVERAGE ON INTEGRATING CLINICAL AND GENOMICS DATA AND PLATFORMS FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE The March-April 2009 issue of Bio-IT World features Dana-Farber Cancer Institute cover story on integrating clinical and genomics data including details on the organization’s work with Oracle and InforSense, as well as a byline article on platforms for personalized medicine by [...]

Physician digital marketing & sales trends webcast

Taking the Pulse® U.S. — Physicians and Emerging Information Technologies, is a syndicated multi-client physician research study and advisory service focused on understanding technology adoption and integration trends among U.S. practicing physicians. Now in its seventh year, the primary objective of the research study is to track which technologies physicians have adopted, how they are [...]

personalized, safety alerts about your medication

A service launched by quintiles claims to be one of the first to provide post launch drug safety information about drugs directly to any one who is using them.  iGuard is a web-based services that will help you take medication safety without the help of  healthcare professionals. You can register on the site for free [...]