An IT prescription for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Infosys — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:02:00 GMT

The healthcare and life sciences industries are witnessing significant changes. Rapid advances in the biological sciences and technology, coupled with demographic and political changes, have translated into a disruptive change for the industry players. In order to succeed, you must be not only well-informed but also translate the information into action for your business.

SETLabs, the research arm of Infosys, publishes SETLabs Briefings, a monthly peer-reviewed research journal. Our special Healthcare issue focuses on the role of IT in healthcare and life sciences.

Infosys' experts discuss how healthcare and life sciences companies can deliver superior customer value by aligning business processes with existing regulations, using IT to enable collaboration between different stakeholders and effecting a business transformation through innovation.

The highlights of the Healthcare and Life sciences issue include thought papers on compliance, collaboration and transformation:

Compliance: Towards a Unified People, Process and Technology 3 Compliance Framework
By Siddharth Shah, Ankasha Tejam, Zaheer Ahmed and Santosh Tharkude
Trend: e-Prescription: A Major Step Towards Collaboration in the Healthcare Sector
By Sudeep Kumar Mandhania
Insight: Composite Healthcare Appliance: Towards Increased Healthcare Collaboration
By Senthil Murugan Muthuvelu
Third Angle: Changing the Way Medicine is Made to Deliver Better Healthcare to Society
An interview with G K Raju, Founder and CEO of LightPharma Inc.
Opinion: IHE and CPOE: The Twain Shall Meet for Healthcare
By Pankaj Gupta
Framework: Leveraging Genome Data for Personalized Health Insurance
By Abinash Sahu and Rajeev Kumar
Viewpoint: Pharma Gain from Information
By Kamal Biswas
Perspective: Operational Transformation in Life Science Companies
By Owen Crowley and Dan Morris
View from the Trenches: Take the IT Advantage in Healthcare
By Yezdi Mehta

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Accelerating Drug Discovery and Time-To-Market

Infosys — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:45:00 GMT

A leading pharmaceutical company partnered with Infosys and Microsoft to develop an Office Business Application. It enables research biologists to sort through a large volume of data, analyze it, and share results with other scientists worldwide. The application accelerates the process of developing new drugs and helps the company bring drugs to the market faster.