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As an American icon creating and selling home maintenance products across North America, Canada is this company’s primary export market so leveraging the NAFTA trade agreement was very important. The company saw a need to reduce time at the border, lower duties, and create efficiency by replacing an outdated, manual approach.

As science-based organizations look to leverage the internet of things (IoT) within the laboratory, careful consideration must be given to available technologies, data formats, and platforms. 

In this case Astrix supported a leading global pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and medical device contract research organization (CRO) in a major effort to select a commercial LIMS system that would meet their requirements

Today’s chemical development labs are busy places that create fascinating new chemicals, new formulations and new products that boost the bottom line. But are these labs as efficient as they could be?

With the increased willingness of consumers to shop online, e-commerce has also continued to flourish. Delivery logistics is the last mile in e-commerce supply chain. Its delivery services influence on whether the e-commerce vendors can get higher customer satisfaction or not. As a result, most delivery logistics companies provide handheld devices for their delivery drivers so that delivering goods to consumers on time and safely. In addition to displaying basic shipment information, the device can sort out the delivered goods through scanning barcodes, as well as instantly transmitting the delivery status to the back-end management system via wireless network or mobile network.

The adoption of RBM is increasing as companies provide greater management support, staff training and more sophisticated technology systems. Technology platforms that enable continuous monitoring with near real-time intuitive visualizations, analytic dashboards and applications will allow issues to be identified and addressed early, improving study safety and efficiency.

Like many pharmaceutical companies, Chugai used paper notebooks to manage and record experimental workflows. The use of paper notebooks created a number of practical obstacles including illegible notes, transcription errors, onerous manual searches through past experiment records and time-consuming data printing and manual pasting into notebooks. Based in Japan (read the case study in Japanese here), Chugai was aware of the risks natural disasters posed to its paper-based records, so required a solution that reduced the reliance on paper.

Patients may not provide complete information needed for diagnoses or may not follow their treatment plans, resulting in poor outcomes. Patients may transition to different providers or fail to attend follow-up visits, which can put outcomes and revenue at risk. Providers remain perpetually at risk of being sued.

Drug developers are focusing significant attention on risk-based monitoring (RBM) of clinical trials to improve data quality, trial efficiency and patient safety. Widely encouraged by regulatory agencies, RBM adoption is gradually building momentum as sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) concentrate on developing the right strategies, deploying the most effective technologies and internally managing change.

The Internet of Things (IoT) can be daunting to understand considering the overwhelming amount of articles available on the subject. Meanwhile, the rapid proliferation of new IoT devices continues in both our personal lives as well as in virtually every industry. The purpose of this document is to quell the hype and facilitate a discussion of how to prepare for and manage an IoT deployment at a fundamental level.

Access management solutions such as single sign-on (SSO) are often looked upon as the first line of defense in controlling identity and access risk. While that’s true, healthcare organizations need more than just SSO.

Valley Health is a nonprofit organization providing healthcare to people in and around an area known as the Top of Virginia, as well as parts of West Virginia and Maryland. Valley Health operates six hospitals in the geographic area, providing nearly 600 inpatient beds and more than 100 long term care beds. On a yearly basis, Valley Health averages more than 30,000 inpatient admissions and more than 140,000 emergency room visits, with total outpatient encounters numbered around 800,000. The organization employs more than 5,000 people and has a medical staff of more than 500 professionals.