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How to get a true ‘bird’s-eye view’ in clinical trials

Much like the calls for more data visualization in health IT at June’s Health Datapalooza, data visualizations can play a powerful role in improving the speed and quality of clinical trials. For example, the VP of ClinOps at a 20-year-old biotech start-up recently leveraged visualizations to help proactively manage a major last-minute patient enrollment challenge. […]

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A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma

A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.