SalesForce.com partner introduces CRM for clinical trial management on Force Platform

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 [...]

GE Healthcare announces SaaS Electronic Medical Records Management

http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com/ GE Health Care is rolling out a new, cloud-based platform that makes it easier for physicians with small practices to maintain and keep track of the electronic medical records of their patients. The new SAAS offering is part of GE’s Centricity offering. Introducing Centricity Advance Colonnades Family Medicine is running on Centricity Advance, a [...]

Grid computing projects supported by Big Blue announced significant progress in looking for new potential drugs in cancer treatment

http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3888281/IBM-Volunteers-Help-Locate-Anti-Cancer-Drugs.htm

22 Million Australian Cloud computing initiative to benefit life science researchers

The Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) www.arcs.org.au has launched its Computer Cloud scheme, a $22 million project funded by the government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy. More details check http://www.arcs.org.au/index.php/services/cloud-computing Bob Correll, the chief information officer for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, said his agency is also looking into using cloud computing for its [...]

Twittering Clinical Trials!

Healthcare IT start-up TrialX has launched an application that allows the 4 million to 6 million (and growing) Twitter users to find clinical trials. Users can query (tweet) TrialX using the keywords . In about a minute, says TrialX, you’ll receive a reply tweet with a tinyurl link to the TrialX page containing matching trials. [...]

SAS Does SAAS- Clinical Trials on Cloud

SAS Drug Development—is now available in an online mode. SAS hosts the program, and users log on via the internet. SAS’s goal is to have customers up and running on the system in a month. SAS® Solutions OnDemand: Drug Development is a hosted solution for aggregating, analyzing and reviewing clinical trials data in order to [...]

Does SaaS fit into the complex world of pharmaceuticals?

An article published by DatMonitor Group read the complete article  here View the Recoreded webcast by IBM Global Lead for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Win with Software as a Service in Healthcare and Life Sciences

SaaS and Healthcare Internet Business Models

SaaS is a great technical model that can save money, increase efficiency, scale-up fast etc etc. But is it a viable business methodology?. Does it make money for the owner who offer this service. according CEOs of many traditional software companies like Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft SaaS doesn’t make money meaning big margins and huge [...]