Category Archives: Genetic medicine

Via Scoop.it – inPharmaticsOracle Exadata gets into Personlized Medicine & Bioinformatics space dressed as Oracle® Health Sciences Omics Data Bank.    Oracle Health Sciences today announced availability of Oracle® Health Sciences Omics Data Bank, a molecular data model, which is … Continue reading →

Via Scoop.it – inPharma Drug makers are now asking their sales representatives to switch from making forceful, tightly scripted sales pitches to acting more like a resource supporting physicians’ treatment.Via online.wsj.com Source:http://microarray.wordpress.com/feed/

Good news for all Foreign CEOs of Global Pharma’s who left India after learning that, in India drug sales are driven by Freebies, and no one would listen to their advice to mend sales practices and unethical marketing practices. Indian … Continue reading →

U.S. Supreme Court, ruling allows shareholders to sue Pharma and biotechnology companies for failing to report adverse drug events/ dangerous side effects. Maker of homeopathic remedies Matrixx Initiatives, was sued by investors once it came to know their marketed nasal … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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

Launched by British Prime Minister David Cameron on 28 July 2010 in Bangalore, India, Dishaa is an initiative that will expand, enrich and energise relations between India and the UK. Dishaa means direction in India’s national language Hindi. And that … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →