Archives For #showMeData™

Identify Top Clinical Investigators

abbywellskd —  January 27, 2016 — Leave a comment

If you are involved in the study start up process, you know how important it is to have the best investigators.  Having the best investigators allows you to be successful in enrolling patients.  Many have their own investigator database, but when there is difficulty, they usually resort to PubMed, registries, and other data.  This data is difficult to navigate and becomes a time suck.

Indicate Investigators has all the data available, but organizes it in a way that is easy to navigate and will save you time.

Below is the launch page to search by Drug/Drug Class OR Disease.  We curate all publicly available sources that have data on investigators, mining the data from its native html, text or XML, and loading into structured, linked data on each Investigator. We know what trials they participated in, how many trials, and how frequently they work within specific disease indications.

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Once you decide what to search for, you will be directed to the results page of all investigators involved in that indication. Continue Reading…

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Stay Ahead of the Curve – Clinical Trial Opportunities

abbywellskd —  January 11, 2016 — Leave a comment

Sponsor Finder is a tool created to allow our users to search and identify sales opportunities at trial sponsors.  Pinpointing opportunities at the right moment can be difficult because once the trial is announced, it is likely that everyone to work with is already lined up.  You can utilize the filters in Sponsor Finder, avoid this problem and stay ahead of the curve.  

One search that is popular among current users, is to look for organizations that have trials completing in the next 6 months.

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I will throw out a specific example: “I am on a team with phase 3, breast cancer trial experience…How do I search?”  You would plug the following into Sponsor Finder: phase 1/2 and 2, active, breast cancer trials, that are completing in the next 180 days.  Continue Reading…

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Sponsor Finder Enhancement: Search for Sponsor Management Contacts

abbywellskd —  September 4, 2015 — Leave a comment

In case you didn’t notice, there is a new feature in Sponsor Finder.  On the left side of the page, just under “Reset” and “Search”, you can select “Find sponsor management contacts“. 

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Although you can find contacts through companies that are returned in a Sponsor Finder search, this section allows you to search by title, name, location, or level across ALL sponsors.  There are over 500K management contacts (with email and phone numbers), which are all provided through ZoomInfo. Many of our users are currently using it to get lists of contacts together for projects, email campaigns, sales pipelines, etc.

If you would like a refresher or training of the system, you can always sign up for our weekly webinars at http://www.karmadata.com/training

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#datashows Institutions Receiving Grants for Lung Cancer Research

abbywellskd —  July 6, 2015 — Leave a comment

This datacard uses the NIH Grant RePORTER data to identify leading research institutions, particularly pre-clinical.

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Purpose: clinical operations, market research

Entities: organizations, investigators, diseases, drugs

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Indicate Investigators Enhancement: Search by Drug Class

abbywellskd —  July 24, 2014 — 1 Comment

Indicate Investigators is an app in the karmadata gallery that was created to search a “disease of interest” and return a list of top Investigators within that disease.  Now we have added the option of not only searching by disease but being able to search by drug class.

Drug Class-MonoWhen you open the Indicate Investigator app, right away you are able to pick either Drug Class or Disease.  For example, if you wanted to search for Monoclonal Antibodies (which is popular in treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases), you would pick drug class and then start typing it in as it autocompletes.  You are also still able to toggle back and forth between drug class and disease once you are fully in the app.

 

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Sponsor Finder Enhancement: Export to Excel Download

abbywellskd —  July 16, 2014 — Leave a comment

karmadata enables users to visualize and simply query the world’s healthcare data.  So why can’t the excel download sheets be simple to navigate as well?  Now they are!  The format of the existing download has greatly improved.  We have cleared away unnecessary columns and provide only the information that is important to you.  We have organized the columns and also added a different tab for clinical trials.  Now the user is able to toggle back and forth between a tab for clinical trials, and a tab for sponsors.

excel downloadThis download is clean, simple, and user friendly.  Feel free to jump up and down (like we did) when you realize how painless this excel sheet is to navigate through.

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Sponsor Finder Enhancement: Trial Timeline

abbywellskd —  July 15, 2014 — Leave a comment

At the karmadata HQ the developers have been working diligently to create more filters to expand the abilities that Sponsor Finder has.  There have been multiple additions already and we want to share them with you.  The first addition that has been made is the visualizations of trial timelines.  This gives the user the ability to quickly see a comparison between the actual vs. expected for a trial as well as different events that have occured.

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After running a Sponsor Finder search, you will be able to find these visualizations by clicking on the number of trials in the middle of the green circle.  This will bring you to the list of clinical trials page.  Right away you are able to see the trial timelines right under it’s trial listing.

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Some of the events that you would be able to see on the timeline include: original/actual start and end dates, addition of trial sites, when a trial is announced, and enrollment dates.  The blue line is the current timeline and grey is the original timeline.  This will give our clients the ability to easily see trial delays/events instead of having to dig into the source.  In the end, saves you and your team time-which is what Sponsor Finder aims to do!  More updates on Sponsor Finder additions to follow.

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Most Expensive Diseases/Procedures for Medicare in 2011

Brendan Kelleher —  May 9, 2013 — Leave a comment
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Major joint replacements cost Medicare more than $6B in 2011

Yesterday there was quite a bit of buzz about the release of Medicare’s inpatient payments for the top 100 diagnosis related groups.  The Washington Post published some highlights on the data including a neat widget to visualize the data.  We decided to take our own shot at it.  This was a fun dataset for us since we were able to leverage a ton of work that we’ve already done.  We had already standardized entities for hospital, organization, DRG, and city from other CMS datasets.  I downloaded the data at 3 PM and had it up and running on karmadata by 5.  We added a couple of calculated measures for total amount paid by Medicare and discrepancy between amount charged and amount received, and started making datacards.

Here’s what folks are saying:

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Google User Data Requests by Country in 2011

Brendan Kelleher —  April 17, 2013 — Leave a comment

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This datacard caught our eye since we’ve seen recent news reports on the increased requests by foreign governments for user data to Google and Microsoft as reported by Forbes. Events such as Monday’s Boston bombings likely cause a spike in such activity (and for good reason).

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Gilead Hepatitis C Trial Activity, Worldwide

Sean Power —  March 25, 2013 — Leave a comment

Gilead Hepatitis C Map

Each week the editors of karmadata choose a Datacard created by one of our members, to recognize their creativity and contributions to the world’s open knowledge base.  This week’s Datacard visualizes clinical trial data for a popular biotech company (Gilead) for one of their development programs (Hepatitis C).  We copied this card (using its filters) and stamped out ~10 other Datacards, learning about Gilead’s drugs, clinical investigators and more in the Hepatitis C arena.  Great work!

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