Author Archives: Venu Mallarapu
Selecting A Cloud Computing Partner To Provide Hosted Drug Safety Solution
Over the last 3 years, I have come across several initiatives from life sciences companies to revisit their Drug Safety system strategy, in line with the trend of evaluating their options with other IT systems, on whether they should continue to host and support these systems on-premise or move to cloud.
Leveraging Technology To Improve Patient Recruitment For Clinical Trials
I was asked to respond to a costumer inquiry recently to help them with providing a solution to improve their patient recruitment in clinical trials. Initially, I thought this must be a question to one of our experts in our CRO. However, I kept thinking about it and realized there isn’t a silver bullet that [...]
Mobility – HTML 5 vs. Native Apps
Building native applications for mobile devices is like building a ‘Client-Server’ application which was popularized in the 90′s and 00′s with the explosion of personal computers. While this trend leveraged the fact that an application can use the computing power of the client device and provide better user experience and performance. However, from a maintenance [...]
Predictive Analytics : Capacity planning for fluctuating Safety Case Volumes
Wikipedia defines Predictive Analytics, as “Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from modeling, machine learning, data mining and game theory that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future events.” While not all of the techniques stated above are required, a lot of data mining and statistical analysis need to be performed on historical data before one can predict [...]
Patient Reported Outcomes and Mobile Solutions
As stated in some of my previous posts, I have been working in the Life Sciences industry for over 8 years now. That amounts to a little bit over half my career till date. It has been a good journey with appreciation towards the greater good that this industry does in making people’s lives better. [...]
iPads, iPhones, Androids, Windows Mobile Phones, Life Sciences and Compliance
Apple has sold millions of iPads in the past 18 months. The adoption of the device in the market is phenomenal. This trend is reflected in Life Sciences & Healthcare industry as well. A mobile Health News article (2012: About 62 percent of physicians use tablets) puts the adoption of tablets by the physicians at [...]
Does Clinical Data Qualify as “Big Data”?
I was at an Analyst conference last week where I met a couple of analysts (no pun intended ) focused on Life Sciences who felt that “Big Data” is a tough sell in Life Sciences, except for Genomic Data. That made me think. I always associated “Big Data” with the size of the data sets running [...]
Can “Clinical Data Integration on the Cloud” be a reality?
The story I am about to tell is almost 8 years old. I was managing software services delivery for a global pharmaceutical company from India. This was a very strategic account and the breadth of services covered diverse systems and geographies. It is very common that staff from the customer organization visit our delivery centers [...]
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