August 2011

Forward by: Dan Manak, Director of Business Development, goBalto, Inc. Sites – It’s Where the Patients Are! Ever since I left my first job out of college (late 80’s), working in an environmental organic chem. lab, I think I have been working directly with physicians and their offices. From that lab, I went to carry [...]

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If you’ve spent any time at all working in the clinical research and/or pharmaceutical/biotech/med-device industries, when you think of sales cycles and adoption curves for new technology usually there is a long ‘groan’ involved. Pharma companies are conservative – we get it.  Let’s face it, our approach to medicine today is not unlike throwing darts [...]

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How long has going paperless been a goal in clinical trials? Ever since the first remote data entry systems were utilized some 20 years ago there has been the promise of being able to one day be in a world, (clinical) that stops or barely uses paper. Maybe now that the interfaces that we utilize [...]

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Pharmaceutical translation and localization is not an option, but an ethical and lawful imperative when new drugs are being tested and existing drugs are being marketed globally. A pharmaceutical company’s successful international presence demands an ethical commitment to the ethnic market. A vast number of the clinical trials are currently held abroad where where accurate [...]

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Okay first off, “Hi my name is Leif and I’m a Mac-a-holic.” Say it loud and say it proud! I use this system on account of its the best one out there, hands down. Its a Unix workstation in a pretty wrapper and gives me the ability to do so many things and integrate them [...]

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