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Category: IT
Cloud Computing and Life Sciences IT
Leveraging IT for Life Sciences and Healthcare: in Cloud Computing and Life Sciences IT we discuss learning effective ways to bring in innovation within your IT budget. What is cloud computing and how could it work within the Life Sciences industy.
Must read: Pharma and Healthcare Social Media Wiki
I came across a tweet from the Beaker blog about a Wiki on the use of social media tools for the industry. Well thanks to Jonathan Richman there is one place to find out who is using which Web 2.0 tools. Since I am coming up with a strategy for a new Life Sciences IT Read More
Upgrading for 2010
I’m not very good at keeping New Year’s resolutions. Yet what I intend to do this year is to align my interests with what I am currently doing. At present I am contracting with an IT service provide to ‘start-up’ a new Life Sciences practice. So in keeping with the title of my blog, how Read More
Pharma 2.0 and the need for Process Innovation
I read an article by Stephanie Sutton, PharmaTech Europe entitled The Pharma 2.0 Trend for 2010. The article summarizes how the industry will remain status quo for 2010 based on Ovum’s industry report. “The trend for slow growth will continue, and cutting costs and reducing time–to-market will remain a priority, particularly with the impending patent Read More
Health Care advances and Thanksgiving
Given all the news about the healthcare reform bill and Thanksgiving (a US national holiday) I read this article which appeared in the Wall Street Journal (24Nov2009) by Melinda Beck “20 Advances to Be Thankful For” and a blog posted on: scientificblogging, science 2.0 by Becky Jungbauer. Thanksgiving is always a time for families to Read More
The time for ‘Process Innovation’ is now
I was asked to explain the effect of Healthcare reform on information technology (IT), and my answer involves: using IT to provide process innovation. Why process innovation and not product innovation? This conclusion begins with the current debate on healthcare, which is quickly moving us to more government intervention to: Reduce costs for what Medicare Read More
Starting my first blog….
This is the first blog post that I am writing and the goal is to provide useful way to leverage technology. I hope to provide insights on the following: Strategies for Information Technology (IT): The next big trend is a movement towards cloud computing versus the traditional client-server model. I want to look at it Read More