The life sciences are continually pushing the limits of human knowledge and understanding. As a research discipline, progress comes from publishing. To bring products to market, comprehensive and detailed documents drive the process.

As technology drives new discoveries, it should also improve clinical efficiencies. Research cycles are long, and the results precisely cataloged, compared, and reproduced. During the many activities, the documents required to establish the necessary scientific authority become a secondary focus.

As the research progresses and becomes a new product, the team needs to disseminate the findings into many different regulatory documents, all prepared with zero errors and accurate citations. Each regulatory framework has different document requirement lists and requires different verifications and validations. Not including something that’s required can cause significant delays in the product’s time to market.

To streamline document management in the life sciences field requires a solution that is centralized, collaborative, and readily available.

ECM Solutions Drive Collaboration and Document Processes

Enterprise Content Management solutions provide a central repository for documents, with an appropriate classification and organization structure. It also allows for workflows and review consolidation.

Changes are version controlled, sensitive material automatically stamped with user details when printed, and print devices secured with encryption and access control. A complete ECM solution takes care of information security and compliance, leaving clinical staff and researchers to direct all of their attention to their work.

Due to the sheer amount of paperwork that is required for pre-approval regulatory filings, implementing an efficient document management strategy and solution will improve time to market.

Litera Microsystems Assists with Regulatory Compliance

Specifically designed for improving the document lifecycles in life sciences, Litera DOCX Tools for Life Sciences goes a step further. It enhances the entire document composition process with standardized formats, accurate citations, and automates referencing.

Using electronic common technical documents (eCTD) content becomes reusable as reference material, review cycles completed quicker, and the documents released more accurate. Integrating this tool with an ECM means the team can share new versions easily, and affected documents edited accordingly.

The number one criteria for documents produced in the life sciences field is accuracy. With advanced proofing and standardized templates, Litera DOCX Tools for Life Sciences provides the fastest path to compliance.

Managed IT Services for Life Sciences and Medical Facilities

As clinical researches are rarely interested in the operations of their IT systems, having a locally hosted solution isn’t necessary. In fact, it may be a risk or hindrance to the facility. If researchers have access to their information, they tend to remain productive.

Using a managed IT service provider means information is securely encrypted, always available, and backed up in case of disaster recovery. With so many moving parts to study, understand, and interpret, researchers regularly forget to backup.

From improving the document management lifecycles to providing medical and laboratory certified IT equipment, every research facility can benefit from partnering with a managed IT services provider.

Not only can they secure and reduce the physical paper footprint, but they also provide solutions that streamline productivity, collaboration, and speed up review cycles. Teams can workflow new findings and results to other members quickly, and the system availability improves while preventing data losses.

Managed IT service providers also provide around the clock support, while remotely monitoring devices, services, and efficiencies. With solutions that are uniquely configurable and modularly deployed, any research project or clinical study can improve their information management network.

Managed IT Services continue to drive Process Efficiencies

With IT infrastructure and systems influencing every aspect of human life, taking care of these systems have become quite complex and specialized. The life sciences discipline similarly require solutions that are unique, customized, and tailored to their needs.

Modern integrations with applications and systems are becoming more efficient, ensuring the tools deliver information when, where, and how it should be. Cloud-based services provide access across multiple different devices, real-time capture and information distribution, and process driven alerts and notifications

Customized infrastructure no longer requires long development cycles, multiple iterations, or extensive bug logging. It comes in the form of APIs, hosted services, and data translation files. This makes a subject-specific, research-centric content management system possible.

Blue Technologies creates Life Science Solutions

Blue Technologies deliver complete, comprehensive solutions to industries with specific, specialized needs. With technologies that reduce the documentation overheads and improves the collaboration lifecycles, their consultants will assemble a system that improves the clinical research project’s Information Management System (IMS).

With technology partners that lead the way in office and facility productivity solutions, they can deliver consistent, reliable devices and software that drive organizational compliance. With tight research budgets and data critical operations, making use of a reliable and diverse technology service helps ensure regulatory success.

For more information on how customized, life science orientated technology can assist your next project, contact Blue Technologies, and speak to a consultant today. With years of market expertise and a proven history in providing excellent customer service, they can assist with any life sciences-related ICT requirement you need.