Life Sciences Team Blog

Final Call: Life Science Innovation Awards

2013-05-22T15:58:11Z

Have you submitted your application for this years Microsoft Life Science Innovation Awards ? Do you have an innovative solution focused on bringing therapeutic breakthroughs to market faster, fight serious ailments, improve health and enhance patient’s qualify of life? Is your solution in a Life Science or related organization? Pharmaceutical Companies Biotechnology Companies Medical Device Companies University Research Medical Centers Federal Research Organizations...(read more)

Patient Centric Health & DSM-5

2013-05-06T17:00:00Z

In this blog we frequently discuss questions around Patient Centric health, connected medical devices, medical devices in the home, medication adherence, validated instruments and etc. But we’ve never really tackled the question of Mental Health and how to approach it from a patient centric point of view. A statement released on April 29th by Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), prompts me to discuss the notion of Patient Centric Mental Health. ...(read more)

Partnering with Microsoft in the Cloud

2013-04-30T01:11:00Z

Today’s “Monday Blog” article is brought to us by a guest author, Mohamed Ayad, with the article focusing on how to Partner with Microsoft in the Cloud. It’s a great article, well named, and clearly positions Microsoft as a player in the cloud, with further announcements on Part 11 and GxP to come. Read on and stay tuned! – Les Partnering with Microsoft in the Cloud Mohamed Ayad, MD, MSIS, MBA In recent months, there has been a flurry of activity around Microsoft’s cloud platforms that...(read more)

What is ShareFEST and why should I go?

2013-04-08T19:00:00Z

There are only a few conferences – large and small – that I go to every year. DIA Electronic Document Management. BioIT World. DIA Annual Meeting. HIMSS. But for the Life Sciences team one of the most important is ShareFEST, being held this year at the Lowes Hotel in Philadelphia on April 24th to 26th. http://www.sharefestconference.com/ What is ShareFEST? ShareFEST is the premier SharePoint conference for life sciences, attended by senior business and IT professionals...(read more)

Patient Engagement for Clinical Trials–Features

2013-01-28T14:49:25Z

As we discussed last week, over the next few weeks we’ll be looking at how Patient Engagement can effect clinical trials. In order to move on to architecture (next week – February 4th) and the business value (February 11th), we need to discuss the required features. There are core features (architectural components?) of Patient Engagement in Clinical Trials: Investigator Portals Patient Portals Ok, so one could argue that both of those are architectural components. But if we detail out...(read more)

Patient Engagement in Life Sciences–Introductory Post

2013-01-21T14:00:00Z

Welcome to the first blog post on Patient Engagement in Life Sciences. Over the next few posts we’ll focus on how Life Science organizations can run clinical trials that are more efficient and cost effective, while providing a better experience for the patient themselves, by engaging more deeply with the patient. The early stages of this have become pretty common: text (SMS) messages sent to patients to remind them to take their medication, complete an eDiary (ePRO) or in some way take an action...(read more)

Have you ever shared your personal medical information on a social network?

2012-11-12T13:30:00Z

Have you dared? It is a growing trend where people share their health information online, most frequently with people who have the same condition or prognosis. I’ve shared health information here a couple times, in the form of blog posts / stories, but I haven’t shared the info directly from a site that contains my personal health info. Until recently. A few weeks ago I was giving a presentation on “Patient Engagement for Pharmaceutical Companies” and showing how it was possible for clinical...(read more)

The Evolution of Collaborative R&D

2012-11-05T13:00:00Z

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the PRISME Forum on the topic of Collaborative R&D, a notion which builds on the concepts of Compliant Collaboration and Collaborative Science. If you think of the capabilities required for Collaborative R&D, you think of a few key capabilities: Multi-company single sign-on, otherwise known as identity federation Regulatory compliant document collaboration & dissemination Regulatory compliant application access, especially focused on...(read more)

Compliant Collaboration–An Innovative Solution

2012-10-01T22:54:00Z

Is it really possible to collaborate and yet be compliant at the same time? Many people think it impossible: that collaboration is too “loose” to allow compliance. In fact, the opposite is true: compliance, by its very nature HAS to be collaborative. Think about it: most systems that manage document compliance are all about workflow, approvals, sending versions back and forth, sign-offs – often the very things that define collaboration. And so – we have the notion of compliant collaboration...(read more)

Innovation & Microsoft–Part 2

2012-09-10T15:00:00Z

Innovative Life Sciences uses of the Microsoft Platform Last time out I wrote about our Life Sciences Innovation Forum , which we will be looking to hold again next spring. That forum discussed a wide variety of ways that Pharma, Biotech and MedDevice companies are (and can be) innovative – across their whole value chain. Check out the agenda . But there are – of course – more ways that Life Science companies are (and can be) innovative than can be presented in a forum. And there...(read more)