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Microsoft Announces Winners of the 2009 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Awards
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Microsoft company logo. (PRNewsFoto/Microsoft)
REDMOND, WA UNITED STATES
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Awards recognize best-in-class, Microsoft-based solutions in discovery
and product innovation, sales and marketing, and clinical development.
SAN DIEGO, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today
announced winners of the 2009 Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences
Innovation Awards, honoring companies that have made the most innovative
use of Microsoft-based solutions for breakthroughs in business processes
and practices throughout the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.
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Announced at the Drug Information Association's (DIA) 45th annual
meeting in San Diego, the awards were presented in the categories of
discovery and product innovation, sales and marketing, and clinical
development.
"The companies recognized are examples of innovators who have developed
technology solutions to address the major issues impacting the
pharmaceutical and life sciences industry today," said Michael Naimoli,
director of U.S. life sciences industry solutions at Microsoft. "By
building upon the existing Microsoft software platform, this year's winners
demonstrated solutions that help streamline clinical trial and discovery
processes to facilitate research and discovery, as well as improve the end
user's experience."
Award Winners
Submissions for this year's awards came from global life sciences
corporations specializing in biotechnology, diagnostics, medical equipment
and devices, pharmaceuticals, animal health, nutritional products, and
consumer health products. The winners are the following:
-- Discovery and Product Innovation: HUNT Research Centre and Biobank
Norway-based HUNT Research Centre and Biobank hosts one of the
largest population-based health studies ever performed, consisting
of three separate studies that span nearly 25 years and evaluate
the same patient population. The studies, initiated to support
epidemiological, clinical and preventive medical research, offer
valuable insight into disease status and progression, particularly
in relation to quality-of-life measures such as one's environment,
education and occupation. In preparation for the third study, HUNT
Research Centre and Biobank recognized the need to deploy a
technology to better manage and analyze real-time data.
HUNT Research Centre and Biobank implemented Thermo Scientific
Nautilus Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to
facilitate their ability to gather, store, manage, track and
retrieve data securely, and yield real-time, dependable analysis
and reports. Built on the Microsoft.NET Framework, Thermo
Scientific Nautilus LIMS(TM) with the use of Visual Studio has
enabled HUNT Research Centre and Biobank to improve its efficiency
and data reliability to better serve the research community.
-- Sales and Marketing: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is a leading global biopharmaceutical
company that develops innovative medicines to combat serious
diseases, with the end goal of extending and improving human life.
In order to address the increasing complexity of business and
customer changes, Bristol-Myers Squibb UK realized that its old
technology would no longer suffice.
Bristol-Myers Squibb UK deployed Data Intelligence's Business
Intelligence Solution, PharmaANALYTICS(TM), to manage all of the
sales and marketing data sources for the entire U.K. organization.
As a result, the Data Intelligence SQL Server-based solution has
enabled the staff to quickly respond to new business challenges
and opportunities. In addition, over 200 sales representatives now
have immediate access to their sales performance by account.
-- Clinical Development: Harvard Clinical Research Institute
The Harvard Clinical Research Institute advances research by
facilitating more efficient collaboration between the industry and
academia. A highly respected academic research organization (ARO)
the Harvard Clinical Research Institute needed to aggregate data
from multiple sources into one to generate increased efficiency
and productivity. The Harvard Clinical Research Institute will
make more information available to study constituents and respond
more capably to a growing number of research centers around the
world.
The Harvard Clinical Research Institute deployed TranSenda's
Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager (OSCTM) in order to access
critical operational data from disparate systems and multiple
clinical trials, and manage it into a single source. The
deployment of OSCTM, with its native interoperability with the
Microsoft Office SharePoint System, resulted in a streamlined
processing of operational data management, significantly reducing
the amount of time and effort involved in each study. The Harvard
Clinical Research Institute has also reduced overall costs for the
overhead of data collection and retrieval.
The 2009 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award winners were
selected by an esteemed panel of industry experts:
-- Scott Lundstrom, research vice president, Health Industry Insights, an
IDC Company
-- James Averback, president, Life Science Integration Partners
-- Benjamin Rooks, principal, ST Advisors LLC
-- Salvatore Salamone, senior contributing editor, Bio-IT World
More information about the 2009 Pharmaceutical and Life Science
Innovation Awards can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/lifesciences/innovationawards.
mspx.
About Microsoft in Health
Microsoft is committed to improving health around the world through
software innovation. Over the past 12 years, Microsoft has steadily
increased its investments in health, with a focus on addressing the
challenges of health providers, health and social services organizations,
payers, consumers, and life sciences companies worldwide. Microsoft closely
collaborates with a broad ecosystem of partners and develops its own
powerful health solutions, such as Amalga and HealthVault. Together,
Microsoft and its industry partners are working to advance a vision of
unifying health information and making it more readily available, ensuring
the best quality of life and affordable care for everyone.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
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