The Ferryman

Combating Drug Counterfeiting & Trafficking

InnovationWell has created a new forum sponsored by Sun Microsystems which is dedicated to discussing approaches for combating drug counterfeiting & trafficking.

We are having a first conference call discussion Thursday 30 March, 11:00am - noon EST (i.e.,  08.00 California, 11am New York, 5pm London, 6pm Zurich since daylight-saving-time this week is in effect in the European time zones but not yet in the US time zones.)

To request a place in the conference call simply email me at barry.hardy [at] douglasconnect.com and I will send you dial-in instructions by return via email. 

The initial program will address current issues and challenges in the introduction of new technologies and processes for ensuring the legality and safety of drugs obtained by patients, including RFID-tagging, automatic product checking to track product throughout the supply chain and new IT-based approaches to security and privacy protection such as federated identity management.

Conference Call Discussion Agenda:
1. Introduction & Welcome, Ulrich Meier, Sun Microsystems Inc. [5 minutes]
2. Overview of RFID in the Pharma Industry, Jim McKiernan, McKiernan Associates [10 minutes]
3. Sun RFID Solution for Drug Authentication, Liz From and Vivek Khandelwal, Sun Microsystems Inc. [10 minutes]
4. ProIdent Open System for combating counterfeit drugs, Dietrich Heinicke, CADAC GmbH [10 minutes]
5. Identity Management in the Life Sciences: Compliance, Privacy, Information Life Cycle Management, Dr. Hellmuth Broda, Sun Microsystems Inc. [10 minutes]
6. Open Discussion [20 minutes]

Presentations may be viewed prior to the conference call by logging into the InnovationWell website at http://innovationwell.net/.  Subsequent to the call I will prepare and post a short summary article.

(Continued with discussion of the background and some the issues raised)

InnovationWell meeting workshop management executive Drug Counterfeiting Federated Identity Management Drug Safety Pharmaceutical Industry Patient Safety Healthcare RFID Track and Trace Sun Microsystems Innovation Knowledge Management forum

Advances in Innovation and Knowledge Management in Research & Product Development

Are you managing your knowledge to enable the best-informed decisions in R&D and product innovation?  For 3 days from 5-7 July 2006 at Oxford University we will be holding a set of InnovationWell workshops examining and discussing methods and best practices for accelerating innovation, integrating knowledge, communicating understanding and supporting decision making in industry research and product development. 

The program will consist of a set of interactive pragmatic workshops and forum led by industry practitioners who will work through and discuss complex case-studies, strategies and emerging best practices.

The instructor group brings together a collective intelligence of leading expertise and workshop facilitation competency and includes Victor Newman, Iain Bitrain, Steffen Conn, Paul Lefrere, David Gurteen, Barry Hardy, Jeff Spitzner, John Trigg and Dave Snowden.

Topics to be addressed and discussed at the workshops include: Strategic Knowledge Management in R&D, Intellectual Property, Licensing & Valuation, Effective Deployment Strategies for Electronic Laboratory Notebooks, Knowledge Assessment & Auditing, Ontologies & Knowledge Discovery, Integrating Innovation Management & Research Activities, Communication & Collaboration between Research Teams & Partners, Organisational Development & Culture in R&D, Decision Support for Research Project & Portfolio Management and Integration of Tools & Data.

These workshops are aimed to bring leading best practice and issue discussion to industry researchers and managers striving to use the latest innovation and knowledge management techniques and tools to maximise productivity and return in investment from R&D activities. Workshop groups will work through and discuss complex issues highlighted by detailed case studies presented by instructors. 

Business analysts, research managers, researchers, product development managers, innovation managers, knowledge managers, department heads, intellectual property managers, IT and KM support groups, service providers and vendors will all take-away key nuggets of understanding in this fast-evolving field and will have ample opportunity to share and discuss their different perspectives.

The approaches discussed will be of interest to management in all industries undertaking innovative research and product development and the format will encourage cross-sectoral peer-to-peer contact and learning.

Participants should take away lessons to enhance their programmes and enrich their practices so that their organisations get the right information in the right form at the right time so that the best decisions are made in research and product development.

More details on the workshops can be found on the InnovationWell website at http://www.innovationwell.net/COMTY_rpdtraining

Further information on the Program, Accommodation and Registration follow here...

Workshop on Risk Management, Labeling Decision-Making, Personalized Medicine, and Knowledge-based Clinical Decision Support

We  are holding a 3 Day InnovationWell Workshop on the 3-5 July 2006 at Oxford University, Oxford, UK.  These interactive pragmatic workshops will be led by leading medical faculty instructors: Saad Shakir, Director, Drug Safety Research Unit, UK, A. Leander Fontaine, President, pharmiceutics and Peter Elkin, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic who will work through and discuss issues and complex case-studies. 

Topics to be covered include: Risk Management Planning, Integrating Clinical Development & Pharmacovigilance Planning, Communication of Drug Safety Issues, Safety Evaluation and Outcomes, Managing Spontaneous Reporting, Responding to new US and EU Labeling Regulations & Guidelines, Proactive Drug Safety Knowledge Management, Decision Support for Research and Practice of Medicine, and Latest Advances in Pharmacogenomics & Personalised Medicine.

These workshops are aimed to bring leading best practice and issue discussion to practitioners in the healthcare industry working in the increasingly integrated cross-functional area of proactive drug and patient safety management. Workshop groups will work through and discuss complex issues highlighted by detailed case studies presented by instructors.

Healthcare providers, program managers, clinical development management, safety & pharmacovigilance experts, product managers, clinical and regulatory affairs, and post-marketing support will all take-away key nuggets of understanding in this fast-evolving field and will have ample opportunity to share and discuss their different perspectives.

More details on the workshops can be found on the InnovationWell website at http://innovationwell.net/COMTY_dstraining

Further information on the Program, Accommodation and Registration follow here...