Saturday, February 21, 2009

Been a while....too long

Been a while since I was here last.

Been on my mind though, that I need to get back, more for my own self than anything else. But like all things in life, it is the getting started, the first step which takes the longest, even if it is to some place you have been before.

Much water has flown under the bridge meanwhile.
The clinical Research industry in India has moved forward, backward, and also sideways. Some good, some not so good and some plain difficult to understand!

The industry is growing and has thrown open a lot of opportunities in the last decade, which many of us might not have thought possible. But sometimes we tend to forget that most of this work comes from outside, and was somewhere else yesterday and might go somewhere else tomorrow….. unless!
Unless we strengthen our strengths (What are they?) and work on our weaknesses (why? Do we have any???)

So how about sharing with me, what you think are our strengths and what you think our weaknesses? Would love to hear from you.
Meanwhile, I promise to be here more often, and ask you to drop by too.

2 comments:

Drhemant said...

strengths of India

India has the largest pool of patients suffering from cancer, diabetes and other disease.

Pharma giants are also attracted by India due to the fact that the country offers nearly 700,000 specialty hospital beds, 221 medical colleges and skilled English-speaking medical personnel.


India’s potential for contract research lies in the fact that it possesses a large pool of talented, experienced and scientific manpower.

Priti Nair said...

Greetings!!!!
Recently at a site one of the Investigators had a very different method of storing source data.
He wrote the patient visit details onto the prescription papers, then he scanned the prescription papers and stored on the system. Then he shred all the source notes that is prescription papers as in his own words''it became very bulky'!!!
When asked he said that his system is validated and regular back ups of the data is taken.Moreover he also filed a print out of the scanned document in the file.(!!!)
My question to all is that whether signed scanned copy of a source document aloneis enough without the original document or not.Please comment.