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Compliance: Towards a Unified People, Process and Technology Compliance Framework
By Siddharth Shah, Ankasha Tejam, Zaheer Ahmed and Santosh Tharkude
Life sciences industry and compliance are like Siamese twins - conjoined and inseparable. Non-compliance to industry regulations could wipe out the industry in totality. The authors suggest a unified IT compliance solution to stave off non-compliance related issues and thus reduce the cost of compliance.

Trend: e-Prescription: A Major Step Towards Collaboration in the Healthcare Sector
By Sudeep Kumar Mandhania
Prescription errors often lead up to erroneous medication and fatal incidents thus tarnishing the image of the healthcare industry. Can IT help in preventing adverse drug events emerging out of medication blunders? Yes it can, opines the author and suggests the adoption of e-prescription as a healthy alternative.

Insight: Composite Healthcare Appliance: Towards Increased Healthcare Collaboration
By Senthil Murugan Muthuvelu
Delivering quality healthcare on demand has been a challenging task, historically. Healthcare networks have been struggling to collaborate to deliver seamless, quality healthcare solutions. Cross-enterprise collaborative architecture like CHAP, if adopted, can be a panacea to this problem.

Third Angle: Changing the Way Medicine is Made to Deliver Better Healthcare to Society
G K Raju, Founder and CEO of LightPharma Inc. opines that pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is still basking in the glory of its past performance. There is an urgent need to transform itself structurally to be able to connect with the end customer. Only then can it partake in efficient delivery of quality healthcare.

Opinion: IHE and CPOE: The Twain Shall Meet for Healthcare
By Pankaj Gupta
Are hospital IT systems in sync with the latest IT developments? While the CPOE system ensures patient safety to a large extent, is it able to leverage the disparate data accessible in the hospital systems? The author suggests the need for Integrated Healthcare Enterprise that can leverage the benefits offered by CPOE.

Framework: Leveraging Genome Data for Personalized Health Insurance
By Abinash Sahu and Rajeev Kumar
Health insurance packages can be exclusively designed for each individual by digging into and mapping their genome data. This will not only help improve risk assessment but also accurately predict morbidity. The authors postulate a framework that draws from the RDF and SOA principles.

Viewpoint: Pharma Gain from Information
By Kamal Biswas
Today, the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is plagued with issues of insufficient and bad quality information. This not only results in delayed defect detection but also coerces management to take decisions that are not based on scientific reasoning. The author insists that a proper knowledge management system can help set things right.

Perspective: Operational Transformation in Life Science Companies
By Owen Crowley and Dan Morris
Sub-optimal performance of life science companies is largely due to their inability to keep pace with the dynamic industry demands. Adoption of BPM and BRE technologies can help operational transformation in life science companies and help them mitigate their failures to a large extent, feel the authors.

View from the Trenches: Take the IT Advantage in Healthcare
By Yezdi Mehta

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