This card uses the Medicare Part D Database.
Entities include: physicians, drugs
Purpose: market research, clinical operations
This datacard uses the Medicare Part D Database to identify top prescribers and top to prescribing geographies of drugs.
Entities include: physicians, drugs
Purpose: market research, clinical operations
This datacard uses the FDA Orphan Drugs Database to identify top players in the orphan space.
Entities include: Sponsors, diseases, and drugs
Purpose: business intelligence, market research, and business development.
If your company has a karmadata plus account with us, you will be able to go to the homepage and click join. There, you will be able enter your email and create an account. If you are having trouble joining your company’s karmadata plus group, here are the steps you need to take:
1. Go to the right hand corner where it lists your account. Click on Settings.
2. Go to Email Section, click to resend verification email. Continue Reading…
Today, we take the time to thank and support all clinical research professionals on International Clinical Trials’ Day. Many would think that this day was just picked by some organization to celebrate the success of clinical trials throughout the years. But, in fact May 20th is the date when James Lind started his famous trial on how to treat scurvy. We have come a long way since having a clinical trial to treat scurvy. Lind paved the way for clinical discovery and finding new means of treatment.
One of the main obstacles with clinical trials today is recruitment. Organizations are having a difficult time getting the bodies they need for the trials they are conducting. Continue Reading…
How convenient would it be if you were able to receive karmadata updates and news at a place you navigate to every day? If you use SalesForce.com for CRM, now you can.
With the karmadata/SalesForce integration you are able to link your accounts within SalesForce to the karmadata company entity. Once linked you will receive the same updates as you would in karmadata, but directly within your SalesForce workflow. Below you are able to see an example of an account page on SalesForce when it is linked to karmadata.
By clicking on the links provided in the feed, you will be directed to the source where the record came from. Continue Reading…
To think 13 years ago, I was sitting in my third grade class with the whispers of voices all around. It wasn’t until I returned home that I realized (kind of) what was going on. With all the commotion and fast paced lifestyles people are living, it seems like today everyone still takes a minute or two out of their day to reflect on September 11, 2001 and the events that happened.
People across the country are remembering the men and women who fought for our country, the heroes we lost, and the families who suffered the loss of loved ones. In karmadata’s backyard of Boston, MA, the BC Eagles will be wearing helmets, gloves, and cleats covered in the red bandana print in honor of Welles Crowther. Welles passed away in the September 11th terrorist attacks after saving several people from the South Tower.
It seems as if every year, my memories of the day become less clear. It is important to remember and it is the only way we will not forget. I can remember the way I felt and the confusion that was going through my head. The questions I had were endless and seemed to be answered more and more each year. September 11th had a different impact on all of us, but today America comes together as one to take the time to reflect and remember.
Captain Josh Bordner displaying the gloves and helmet to be worn on Saturday.
I think by now if you are living in or around Boston you have heard of the #IceBucketChallenge to #StrikeoutALS. The Ice Bucket Challenge was created to raise awareness for support of ALS and more specifically Pete Frates. Pete is a former Boston College baseball captain who is battling the disease. If you are nominated to complete the challenge, you must film yourself pouring a bucket of ice water on your head, after nominating others to complete the challenge within 24 hours. By now you have probably seen Pro Athletes, friends, family, and even politicians completing this challenge.
While watching Pete Frates’ video on his site, I learned what rewriting the end of ALS meant to him. “Rewriting the end of ALS means raising money to get better research for treatment and ultimately finding a cure.” So if you head over to karmadata, we can dig into the research part of ALS. You are able to see below that the number of Industry Sponsored ALS trials are declining. As Pete said, the way to a cure is through research. We need to raise the amount of research that is being done.
If you head over to Sponsor Finder and search for ALS Trials, you will see that there are only 8 companies actively conducting ALS clinical trials.
Lastly, this data card below shows government funding. John Hopkins University being the top organization who grants money to ALS.
So what does all this mean? This challenge is to create awareness for ALS and I believe it is working. When I log in to facebook, it’s the first thing I see and it fills my news feed from top to bottom. By creating awareness, we are able to become more knowledgable on ALS and more likely to donate to the cause, which will hopefully result in more research. With all of the visualizations on funding and number of companies/trials, you can see that ALS may not be something people are too aware of. The Challenge will definitely not cure anything right away, but it is a big step in the right direction!
A couple of us here at karmadata have already donated to ALS and completed the Ice Bucket Challenge, even our CEO Sean Power who completed it last night! We urge you to visit petefrates.com and donate! You can also check out the sweet Frate Train gear at petefrates.storenvy.com
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.
When 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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