The pharmaceutical and healthcare industries will help to push
trade between India and the United Kingdom up by 60 per cent within
three years, claims a soon-to-be released report.
Pfizer has shunned a more traditional approach to data management
outsourcing by slashing its vendors to a handful and standardising
them under the one business model.
Switzerland's Bobst has introduced a new system for embossing
Braille characters on pharmaceutical packaging that moves the
process down the production line from die-cutting to the folding
and gluing stage.
Octagon has bought an electronic data capture (EDC) company and is
now claiming to be the first company to address the process problem
in clinical R&D by offering "an end-to-end solution that
crosses traditional functional...
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced plans to outsource all its data
management and medical trial and regulatory reporting functions to
India in a deal said to be worth over £10m (€14.7m).
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has decided to consolidate all its human
resources business process outsourcing (BPO) services under the one
umbrella in a contract valued at $171m (€131m).
More companies in the pharmaceutical industry than any other
industry are set to increase their reliance on information
technology (IT) and business process (BP) outsourcing this year,
new research indicates.
The move towards electronic files is set to bring major benefits in
the clinical trials area especially in terms of patient
recruitment, new research suggests.
Covance was nothing but optimistic about the future of contract
research organisations (CROs) during a JPMorgan healthcare
conference held last week, despite a slowdown in R&D spending
over the past year.
Two companies have gone a step further to capture a bigger chunk of
the budding eClinical market by offering a new integrated solution
for pharma companies who continue to move away from paper toward
electronic reporting in clinical...
A new clinical research tool is now available, offering
investigators the ability to integrate clinical data from a number
of different sources across the clinical development spectrum.
India is the first choice for foreign companies looking to offshore
their knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) activities and future
growth will be fuelled by the pharma market, according to a new
report.
It has been another few weeks of activity for the budding eClinical
industry as sponsors across the globe continue to move away from
paper toward electronic reporting in clinical trials.
A white paper that looks at the eClinical business model strategies
has concluded that larger investments and access to multicomponent,
single-source contracting options will create more efficient models
for businesses.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the launch
of a new guidance to help drug makers evaluate lab test results
that fall outside the specification limits.
Pharmaceutical companies are beginning to catch up with other
industry sectors that take an increasingly realistic view of what
they consider a core competency and outsourcing what is left -
Outsourcing-Pharma takes a snapshot of...
Pharma companies that aren't maximising their outsourcing potential
in clinical research may be wasting a world of opportunity.
OutsourcingPharma.com gives a brief run down of exactly what kinds
of services and providers are...
As the Asia-Pacific continues to be a hotspot for clinical trials
activity, e-clinical provider ClinPhone has opened its first office
in the region in the hope of gaining a head start.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to issue a
revised version of its regulation on electronic signatures and
records by the end of the year, which will force drug and device
companies to reconsider their current information...
There is a growing realisation in pharma that, to remain
competitive, paper-based trials are not the way forward. Instead,
electronic data capture (EDC) and management technology solutions
are now readily available and becoming more...
Datatrak International said it has been offered a minimum of $3m
(€2.4m) worth of contracts for next year out of a deal struck with
its first "multibillion-dollar" pharma firm in the second quarter.
The need for better exploitation of clinical data is linked
directly to the general challenges facing drug development today as
development costs for new products have rocketed from $100m (€79m)
to $800m.
Most drug companies are not planning to increase the level of sales
and marketing IT they outsource over the next 3-5 years - a sign
that this niche segment may be bucking the wider pharmaceutical
industry outsourcing trend.
Contract Research Organisations (CRO) involved in clinical trial
services may benefit from a new technique that allows researchers
to statistically analyse results of clinical trials.
The European Union (EU) has been criticised for being more
favourable to big biotech companies, at the expense of smaller
firms, according to consultants within the industry.
Capgemini has received a new five year outsourcing contract to
provide IT services to ensure the smooth sailing of pharmaceutical
company Astellas US, newly-formed after a recent merger.
The clinical trials industry is struggling to cope with the burden
of maintaining adequate drug accountability documentation for
regulatory compliance.
PPD International has launched a new software system that it claims
can speed up the review time of safety and endpoint-driven data
from large-scale clinical trials or registries.
Spurred on by the frustration of drug manufacturers, governors from
four US states have petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) for clarity in their requirements for the production of
generic versions of insulin and human...
The use of eClinical software in clinical trials is gaining in
popularity with pharmaceutical, biotechnology and contract research
organizations (CROs), as seen by the recent financial results of
two major industry providers.
IBM has unveiled a radio frequency identification (RFID) system for
the tracking and tracing of pharmaceuticals, confident it will
accelerate the adoption of the technology by the drug industry.
Quintiles has turned its latest investment back towards home soil,
announcing plans to open a new US clinical data processing centre
in Williamston, North Carolina.
Are big pharma companies uninterested in supporting novel
formulations, preferring to stick to low-risk drug delivery
systems, or are they resourceful innovators that bring new
technologies to the market? Two pharma grandees holding...
Quintiles has announced the opening of a new biostatistics unit
that it claims will help pharma firms cut the time and cost of drug
development through the "adaptive design" of clinical trials.
The pharmaceutical and life sciences industries are flushed with
quality IT services, with eight companies that have a specialist
life science/pharmaceutical focus being featured in the top 20 of
the first-ever listing of the world's...
European healthcare organisations are being driven to outsource
more and more IT operations due to escalating financial burdens,
increasing complexity of IT systems, and new government
initiatives.
PRA International has been busy implementing an advanced data
management system as part of a number of new internal measures
aimed at improving operating efficiency and cutting the costs of
clinical trials.
ClinPhone has launched the first electronic solution for clinical
trials that enables central management of drug accountability
across the entire clinical supply chain, from distribution to
destruction.
eClinical software and services firm etrials has launched the
latest version of its eDiary technology, which the company claims
will lead to cost savings and increased efficiency in the clinical
trial process.
Medidata Solutions has opened a new clinical data centre and
enlisted the help of consultancy firm C3i to provide its customers
with faster and more secure electronic clinical trial support as
demand for these services continues to...
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