Life Sciences Team Blog

Patient Centric Health & DSM-5

LJrdn — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Partnering with Microsoft in the Cloud

LJrdn — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:11:00 GMT

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,...(read more)

What is ShareFEST and why should I go?

LJrdn — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Patient Engagement for Clinical Trials–Features

LJrdn — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:49:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Patient Engagement in Life Sciences–Introductory Post

LJrdn — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

LJrdn — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:30:00 GMT

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...(read more)

The Evolution of Collaborative R&D

LJrdn — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Compliant Collaboration–An Innovative Solution

LJrdn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:54:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Innovation & Microsoft–Part 2

LJrdn — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Innovation & Microsoft - Part 1

LJrdn — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:51:39 GMT

A lot is being made these days about the word "innovation". Every advertisement you see on TV purports their product to be "innovative" - and Microsoft is no different. But what is innovation? What does it mean to be innovative? From my point-of-view...(read more)