Addressing Clinical Safety—A Spotfire® analytics case stud
(Recorded on March 25, 2015)

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Join Joel Allen to look at some of the techniques used by Roche to solve queries submitted by the Safety Science group with a focus on quality and speed. Using Spotfire and a six sigma based approach, safety scientists and programmers work collaboratively to make better data driven decision, ensuring queries are answered correctly and in the most expedient way.

Learning Objectives:

More rapidly get to actionable insights by providing clinical business users throughout the organization with unmatched speed and flexibility to address clinical safety questions.

• Using a 6 sigma framework to address Clinical Safety problems in under an hour using Spotfire
• Detect, assess, and understand adverse events in ongoing clinical studies
• Discover the benefits of enable effective collaboration between clinical business users and data scientists/programmers, with the objective of bringing the final clinical business user closer to the data.
• Streamline clinical safety analysis to ‘under an hour’ through appropriate clinical visualizations, analytic dashboards, and applications.
• Stay connected to the most recent clinical safety data, as it becomes available, to gain timely insight into your clinical studies.

Joel Allen, Data Provision Specialist at Roche

Joel Allen is currently employed as a Data Provisional Specialist within the Roche organization to work together with scientists to solve problems for data review in an efficient and timely manner. Joel has worked in Clinical Research Organization and Pharmaceuticals since 1999 with 11 years as a database programmer with the transition from paper based studies, to data input through scanning technology and finally to web based applications.

Gerard Conway, Director, Data Analytics, PerkinElmer Informatics

Gerard has spent the past 15 years working in Life Science informatics across the full range of Life Science functions including Research, Clinical and Commercial. Prior to joining PerkinElmer he spent 10 years working for TIBCO where he was a Solutions Consultant Manager working with numerous global Pharmaceutical companies and CROs on Clinical projects, including Medical Review, Clinical Operations and Risk Based Monitoring. Gerard has a BSc in Biochemistry from National University of Ireland Galway and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester.