Released on: June 18, 2008, 11:15 am

Press Release Author: GTC Bio

Industry: Biotech

Press Release Summary: Michele Pontinen, Senior Manager of Life Sciences at
Capgemini LLC will be speaking at GTCbio's Global Clinical Trial Operations
conference on September 25-26, 2008 in San Diego, CA. Ms. Pontinen will give a
presentation entitled "Forget About the Boulders - I'm Interested in Mining for the
Diamonds!" Data Mining (And Other Capabilities) Made Possible by Clinical IT - a
Real Life Industrialized Model."

Press Release Body: Data mining has always been important to Capgemini's industry.
Having the ability to mine across pre-clinical, Phase I-III research trials and
marketing studies as well as other external data has always been the goal. To date,
data and systems 'interoperability' has been one of the major challenges to this
effort. In Capgemini's current state, they are able, albeit infrequently, to
cull-out major safety and efficacy information (the boulders). Ms. Pontinen and her
colleagues are hampered, however, in mining for those diamonds that can give them
more accurate and focused insight into product extensions, safety information and
treatment. This presentation will discuss a current solution they have
'industrialized' for a client. The solution includes a repository for mining across
data in an interoperable formatting, using industry standards available to them
today, the toolset used to migrate closed studies (studies reported to authorities)
and convert in-live (on-going trials) to a new EDC platform with pass through to the
repository. Ms. Pontinen will present the challenges and pitfalls to enabling this
functionality and discuss how Clinical IT Operations can make this model successful
and drive the right solution for the business owners and for operations. Ms.
Pontinen will define what 'interoperable' means for systems and data, provide
insight into the challenges of driving this solution, explain how Capgemini
'industrialized' the process, and present other benefits in addition to data mining
capability.

The Global Clinical Trial Operations conference brings together leaders, directors,
vice presidents, heads, managers, supervisors, and CROs from all over the world to
collaborate and discuss the latest developments in clinical trial operations and
logistics and covers clinical trials in emerging markets, first-in-man clinical
trials, pediatric clinical trials, material storage, distribution, site selection,
patient recruitment and retention, technology in clinical trials and case studies of
running global clinical trials.

For more information including a detailed agenda, exhibitor opportunities and
registration information visit http://gtcbio.com/conferenceDetails.aspx?id=127.

ABOUT GTCbio

GTCbio organizes conferences specifically for the biomedical and biopharmaceutical
industries. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of biopharmaceutical and
biomedical intelligence between industry leaders, academic and government
organizations, and the financial community.
GTCbio is a subsidiary of Global Technology Community, LLC, a privately held company
founded in 2002.


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