Medical Service KPO: An offshoot of Healthcare KPO

Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) is a higher-end version of outsourcing business processes that require significant domain expertise. Thus KPO emphasizes on services based on knowledge power. At present, major categories of domain knowledge that are working as KPO include legal process, research and development, market research, financial services research, business intelligence and medical services. Medical service KPO is a health care KPO, which, identifies and addresses the met and unmet...

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Pre-clinical and clinical research: Part of drug development process

Preclinical development Pharmaceutical research plays an essential role in the development of new drug molecules for safe and effective use in patients. Pre-clinical and clinical research is two important phases in drug discovery and development process. It takes about 12 to 16 years to bring a molecule from laboratory to clinical practice. Based on the type of drug molecule, the duration of pre-clinical research varies from 2 to 6 years while clinical research takes approximately 7 to 12 years....

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Understanding Pharmacovigilance System & Processes

According to WHO “Pharmacovigilance is the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problem.” In other words the goal of pharmacovigilance is getting the best outcome of therapy by patient care and surveillance. Good pharmacovigilance will identify the risks and risk factors related to adverse drug reactions (ADRs) during the complete product life cycle. This information allows for intelligent, evidence-based...

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Medical Writing

Medical writing, an integral part of medical research and communication, can be defined as an art of creating scientific documents with the aim of transmitting information of technical nature in lucid and simple manner to health care professionals, scientific community, general public and patients. Target audience needs normally define the pattern of medical writing. The language for medical education of Physician/healthcare professional has to be highly technical while simple and lay communications...

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Medical Affairs

Medical Affairs identify and address the medical needs associated with products, therapies and disease states thereby driving improvement in patient outcomes in line with commercial objectives. Medical Affairs came into existence in pharmaceutical and biotech industries to aid interactions between health care professionals and company representatives. However with time, the role of Medical Affairs has transformed from being a traditional support function to an equal partner role. Besides providing...

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