Integrating Knowledge in the Life Science Product Life Cycle
A tremendous volume and variety of complex information is created around drug discovery, clinical trials, regulatory review and healthcare delivery. The investment in the creation and storage of this information in both the private and public sector involves tens of billions of dollars. However, information is often not easy to retrieve and reuse. A significant amount of data and understanding remains inaccessible; it is challenging to share and combine knowledge from different areas of expertise or past experience. It is difficult to bring together competencies, knowledge and information into a current new research, market or healthcare delivery situation. Furthermore the expensive and information-rich R&D approaches of recent years have often not led to new and better cures in the market place.
The Web conference “Integrating Knowledge in the Life Science Product Life Cycle” will be held 18-29 October 2004, http://innovationwell.net/. The purpose of this conference is to examine and explore the state of progressive knowledge and information management tools and practices in the pharma, life science and healthcare industries with the goal of obtaining improved outcomes in terms of
- improved use and deployment of knowledge and information
- reduced costs of research, clinical trials and regulatory compliance
- increased innovation and productivity of individuals, groups and organisations
- improved returns of investment in research and clinical trials
- improved healthcare delivery
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Knowledge is created and used at all stages and processes of a product's life cycle to address business strategies, enhance collaborative efforts, and make intellectual use of data and information acquired from established databases, the laboratory, clinical trials, regulators and the market place. Knowledge originates from diverse sources at different times in a product life cycle. Knowledge management strives to expose critical knowledge and make it apparent at those times when it is most valuable.
This conference will explore current best knowledge management strategies, practices and supporting solutions in the life science industry that enable innovation, effectiveness and success in the competitive market. We will address issues that include:
* How can existing knowledge and intellectual property be more effectively deployed into new business situations?
* How should we manage our data and knowledge around the product life cycle to maximise its value in the market place?
* What new knowledge management approaches offer greater productivity for the individual worker? For the team? For collaborators and partners? For communities of interest and practice?
* How should we classify our knowledge better semantically so that we may retrieve more of what we know, is known or to determine what is not known?
* What new approaches for managing knowledge are being created by the increasingly electronic nature of information capture, management and collaboration? What are the legal and regulatory risks and how do we manage them?
* How do the new standards and initiatives allowing the improved exchange and combination of data between different systems and domains create opportunities for improved access to knowledge?
* How can improved knowledge management help to reduce the high cost of clinical trials and patient recruitment? How do we increase the effectiveness of knowledge-supported healthcare delivery?
Barry Hardy
www.douglasconnect.com
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