Innovations in clinical trials informatics

Author

Summers, Ron ; Vyas, Hiten ; Dudhal, Nilesh ; Doherty, Neil F. ; Coombs, Crispin R. ; Hepworth, Mark

Author_Institution

Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, UK

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

2889

Lastpage

2892

Abstract

This paper will investigate innovations in information management for use in clinical trials. The application typifies a complex, adaptive, distributed and information-rich environment for which continuous innovation is necessary. Organisational innovation is highlighted as well as the technical innovations in workflow processes and their representation as an integrated set of web services. Benefits realization uncovers further innovations in the business strand of the work undertaken. Following the description of the development of this information management system, the semantic web is postulated as a possible solution to tame the complexity related to information management issues found within clinical trials support systems.

Keywords

Biomedical informatics; Clinical trials; Costs; Databases; Information analysis; Information management; Innovation management; Research and development management; Standards development; Technological innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Automatic Data Processing; Clinical Trials as Topic; Computer Communication Networks; Computers; Database Management Systems; Humans; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems; Medical Informatics; Medical Informatics Computing; Models, Organizational; Organizational Innovation; Systems Integration; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649806

Filename

4649806