Information Technology

Emerging Trends in Functional Service Outsourcing

The IT outsourcing industry has laid down a solid foundation in terms of establishing and providing service and pricing model that can be ramped up to provide value added and highly skilled outsourcing services. Like the IT outsourcing industry in India, the clinical research industry was also established and expanded by home grown organisations. This sector has grown from a BOT (Build Operate and Transfer) model to a BPO and now to the Full Service outsourcing model.

Business Intelligence

Transforming Pharma

Access to accurate real-time information during every phase of development can significantly improve the effectiveness of strategic decision-making, increasing the likelihood of long-term success.

IT Clouds in Life Sciences

Key to long term sustainability

Cloud solutions offer immediate returns in improving operational performance and reducing costs. Multiple approaches to cloud solutions will be needed to satisfy life science industry needs, complicating the development of a coherent cloud strategy.

Regulatory Information Management

Leveraging standards and efficiencies of eCTDs

In managing Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls documents, the larger process is involved for electronic regulatory submissions to health authorities. This is a case of an entire process standard providing significant gains in efficiency. A solution is needed for this area of the biopharmaceutical industry.

Data Mining in Clinical IT

A real life industrialised model

Data mining has always been important to our industry. Having the ability to mine across the entire product lifecycle has always been the goal. To date, data and systems' 'non-interoperability' has been one of the major challenges to this effort. This case study will describe how data mining capability was enabled initially by Clinical IT.

A compliant IT environment with IT service management

IT can play a key role in cutting down the costs of production and helping biopharmaceutical companies maintain regulatory compliance.

Innovative IT

Enabling pharmaceutical Research & Development

The pharmaceutical industry is facing increasingly severe challenges to its mission of delivering novel therapeutic solutions for unmet medical needs. Today, a heightened focus is being placed on leveraging maximum value from its core asset-information.

Clinical Trial Supply Chain

Streamlining information management

Consolidating and integrating data across systems and relationships can help manage some of the challenges associated with supplying investigational and comparator drugs for clinical trials.

Business Intelligence in Pharma

A key enabler of industry transformation

Business intelligence solutions, proven in other industries, offer the troubled pharmaceutical industry the potential to enable both operational excellence and better technical management to support drug development for the future.

Web 2.0 in Pharma Enterprise

Improving internal communication

The adoption of simple and easy-to-use Web 2.0-inspired technologies and approaches inside the enterprise provides companies with opportunities to improve their collaboration, communication and knowledge sharing.

IT Outsourcing Strategies in Drug Discovery

Outsourcing pharma or biotech research IT can be very difficult to implement but with a well-planned strategy the benefits can easily outweigh the risks.

Life Sciences Manufacturing

Promise of service oriented architecture

Service oriented architecture promises to revolutionise the way companies share information internally, as well as with partners, customers and regulators.

Operational Excellence

IT governance, enterprise architecture and service management

IT governance defines a structure of relationships, processes and measures to direct and control IT in order to achieve the enterprise's goals.

Knowledge Tools

Increasing role in drug development

By using knowledge tools to better understand a potential new drug’s effectiveness and safety early in the development process, it becomes possible to terminate potentially problematic drugs earlier, saving both time and money.

IT in Pharma

Countering the information security risk

IT breaches lead to identity theft, counterfeit drugs, low productivity and revenue loss.

Information Technology

Right prescription for the growth of pharmaceutical companies

The IT spending of companies reflects their strategies to introduce new drugs, enter new markets, and be more competitive in the challenging Asian pharmaceutical market.

Microsoft

Digital Pharma Initiative

Digital Pharma will enable lifesciences organisations to improve operations and decision making across the entire industry value chain.