The key is not first to eSource, the key is smart to market

This post is not for the Pfizers, Novartis, Merck and GSK giants of the life science industry. Its for the innovators, the smaller, creative life science companies that are challenged by the costs, the regulatory load and complexity of executing a clinical trial. This post is dedicated to the startup entrepreneurs of the world. Building an EDC […]

2 mistakes you do not want to make in your medical device clinical trial

Jenya Konikov-Rozenman Jenya is a co-founder and VP Clinical at Flaskdata.io. Jenya has a masters degree in biotechnology from the Hebrew University and is a doctoral candidate at Tel Aviv in medical science. She is GCP and CRA certified and leads FlaskData.io customer operations with super-human devotion to customer delivery. Jenya has 2 children – […]

You can DIY a chair from IKEA. You cannot DIY your medical device clinical trial

  Jenya Konikov-Rozenman Jenya is a co-founder and VP Clinical at Flaskdata.io. Jenya has a masters degree in biotechnology from the Hebrew University and is a doctoral candidate at Tel Aviv in medical science. She is GCP and CRA certified and leads FlaskData.io customer operations with super-human devotion to customer delivery. Jenya has 2 children […]

14 years after 9/11, more connected, more social, more violent

Friday, today is the 14’th anniversary of the Al Queda attack on the US in New York on 9/11/2001. The world today is more connected, more always-on, more accessible…and more hostile. There are threats from Islamic terror, identity theft, hacking for pay, custom spyware, mobile malware, money laundering and corporate espionage. For those of us […]

Snake Oil 2.0 – why more data is bad

Why more data is bad Remember the old joke regarding college degrees? BS = Bull Shit, MS = More Shit and PhD == Piled Higher and Deeper and HBS == Half Baked Shit. In Western society, we are schooled to believe that more and faster is better – even though we can see that big data […]

Why the Europeans are not buying DLP

It’s one of those things that European-based information security consultants must  ask themselves at times – why isn’t my phone ringing off the hook for DLP solutions if the European Data protection directives are so clear on the requirement to protect privacy? The central guideline is the EU Data Protection Directive – and reading the […]

Better physical security with more eyeballs

Big companies have lobbies and receptionists. They may have many visitors during the day not to mention messengers from FedEx, DHL, TNT, Poczta etc. A DHL courier recently visited the offices of a client to pick up a package.  He walked in, picked up 5 expensive mobile computers and notebooks, put them in the pouch […]

Seven software development mistakes not to make in 2009

One thing that is burnt into my personal flash memory from 7 years at Intel is working in Plan 2009 in September/October. This time of year, I start thinking about how we can survive and grow the business. We all like to think we learn from mistakes, however, recent experiences reminded me that the software […]

Clinical trials in the cloud

Ben Baumann from Akaza and Open Clinica fame, recently blogged about clinical trials in the cloud.  Ben is pitching the relatively new offering from Akaza called Open Clinica Optimized hosting that offers quick startup using validated Open Clinica instances and resources on-demand on a SAS-70 compliant platform. As Ben noted that in the clinical research field, […]

Dealing with information junkies in decentralized clinical trials

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DecentraIized clinical trials software vendor Medable is doing an outstanding job in understanding and executing an online work-flow between sites and patients at home..  This understanding and execution is a necessary but insufficient condition for the success of decentraIized clinical trials. At their core, decentraIized clinical trials and hybrid studies have the same issues as any clinical research project. These […]