By bluerasberry on 2014-04-07
I made a friend named Fabian and have been meeting him on weekends for a while. He is a creative person and a relaxing person with whom to spend time.
Posted in New York City | Tagged Fabian
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-05
Speakers at the conference who talked about international expansion of research said that China was the next big thing and said that India has an odd and uncertain future as it matures in its international relationships. Right now 95% of people in China are covered by at least some minimal type of health insurance policy. […]
Posted in China, China, clinical research, drug, health | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-05
I was invited to speak at the conference on Tuesday 1 April. I was on a panel called “Partnering with Patients: What do you need from each other?” The description to the talk asked, “When it comes to engagement in clinical trials, are pharmaceutical executives getting it right or are we leaving a huge amount […]
Posted in clinical research, drug, health, Las Vegas, presentation, Wikipedia
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-04
I am at the Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference in Vegas. I am attending all the talks I can about outsourcing clinical research, and especially about China. These are notes and industry gossip; no fact checking has gone into what I am typing here but obviously the people who are presenting are speaking as insiders […]
Posted in China, clinical research, research | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2014-03-28
This weekend I am attending the Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference in Vegas. I have been talking with friends about clinical trial information as I often do. Just today I was talking with Chuck in advocacy at work about supplies of drugs. He said that he had a report saying that about 80% of prescription […]
Posted in China, Consumer Reports, drug, India | Tagged industrial design, pharma
By bluerasberry on 2014-03-12
Today Vint Cerf, Google’s “Internet Evangelist”, presented at Consumer Reports. He talked about the history and the future of the Internet. What he said was familiar to me but hearing it from him in the way that I suppose he has been performing continually for 50 years was a thrill. Vint Cerf is called one […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, encounter | Tagged Vint Cerf
By bluerasberry on 2014-02-10
Elsewhere I talk about clinical research. Suppose that a research participant wants information about a clinical trial. What types of information would this person want? I was thinking to model information types as follows: Logistical information Research participant rights Health information Information about the particular clinical trial Logistical information refers to all the metadata about […]
Posted in clinical research, drug, education, health, rights | Tagged pharma
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-25
For traditional educational organizations, it is easy to create high quality information content but difficult to disseminate them to the right audience. For Wikipedia, it is easy to disseminate information to the right audience, but difficult to create high quality information content. Which ability is more useful?
Posted in health, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged text
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-13
I am interested in the Devyani Khobragade incident just as an America who reads the news and who has lived in India. I also happen to live in New York, so perhaps since this happened where I live people talk about the case more here. I have read enough of the articles to know that […]
Posted in New York City, rights, service industry | Tagged Sangeeta Richard
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-11
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is three of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I describe MuckRock as […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, research, Wikipedia | Tagged informed consent