The Life Sciences industry is often considered a leader when it comes to the utilization of new, innovative technology to drive major advancements in R&D. However, we have found that when it comes to inventory, manufacturing, and supply chain management business processes, many Life Sciences companies still find themselves buried in paper. Implementing Electronic Batch Records (EBRs) within a Life Sciences tailored solution inevitably leads to an increase in productivity. While regulatory reporting and compliance requirements historically drove these organizations to work manually with paper, there have been many advancements in software technology that should be too compelling to ignore. Unfortunately, once manual and paper-based systems are in place, executives tend to stay with...
Choose Your Own Device and the Life Sciences Industry
The life sciences industry constantly produces cutting-edge, innovative solutions to help patients live longer, healthier lives. But when it comes to mobile technologies (a cutting-edge field in and of itself), life sciences firms still struggle with the same issues as other companies that aren’t as innovative. Mobile devices present opportunities as well as challenges. Certain mobile technology policies will work better than others. This post discusses the benefits, risks and challenges, and best practices of choose-your-own device (CYOD). CYOD’s Benefits CYOD aims to give IT departments more control over employee mobile devices than a bring-your-own device (BYOD) policy. Here’s how CYOD works: the company compiles a list of approved mobile devices and supplies them to employees....
