/24-7PressRelease/ - MONROVIA, CA, June 20, 2008 - Michele Pontinen, Senior Manager of Life Sciences at Capgemini LLC will be speaking at GTCbio's Global Clinical Trial Operations conference on September 25-26, 2008 in San Diego, CA. Ms. Pontinen will give a presentation entitled "Forget About the Boulders - I'm Interested in Mining for the Diamonds!" Data Mining (And Other Capabilities) Made Possible by Clinical IT - a Real Life Industrialized Model."
Data mining has always been important to Capgemini's industry. Having the ability to mine across pre-clinical, Phase I-III research trials and marketing studies as well as other external data has always been the goal. To date, data and systems 'interoperability' has been one of the major challenges to this effort. In Capgemini's current state, they are able, albeit infrequently, to cull-out major safety and efficacy information (the boulders). Ms. Pontinen and her colleagues are hampered, however, in mining for those diamonds that can give them more accurate and focused insight into product extensions, safety information and treatment. This presentation will discuss a current solution they have 'industrialized' for a client. The solution includes a repository for mining across data in an interoperable formatting, using industry standards available to them today, the toolset used to migrate closed studies (studies reported to authorities) and convert in-live (on-going trials) to a new EDC platform with pass through to the repository. Ms. Pontinen will present the challenges and pitfalls to enabling this functionality and discuss how Clinical IT Operations can make this model successful and drive the right solution for the business owners and for operations. Ms. Pontinen will define what 'interoperable' means for systems and data, provide insight into the challenges of driving this solution, explain how Capgemini 'industrialized' the process, and present other benefits in addition to data mining capability.
The Global Clinical Trial Operations conference brings together leaders, directors, vice presidents, heads, managers, supervisors, and CROs from all over the world to collaborate and discuss the latest developments in clinical trial operations and logistics and covers clinical trials in emerging markets, first-in-man clinical trials, pediatric clinical trials, material storage, distribution, site selection, patient recruitment and retention, technology in clinical trials and case studies of running global clinical trials.
For more information including a detailed agenda, exhibitor opportunities and registration information visit http://gtcbio.com/conferenceDetails.aspx?id=127.
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