Contesting TB 2

A quick nod to the Stop TB Partnership and it’s New Drug Working Group, who have put together the Innovate TB (inTB) Contest.  inTB gathers videos, photos and write-ups that tell stories of innovation focused on the fight against TB.

Here’s our TB Commons entry along with a few others that have caught my eye:

TB Commons

TB Commons is our notion of a disease commons, where those interested in advancing clinical research on TB can access clinicaltrials.gov data using our Clinical Collection tool.  In addition, a powerful Answers Forum serves as a place to share collections of trials, and generate knowledge related to TB research.  Give it a try!

The Delft Youth Theatre for Health Group

The Delft Youth Theatre for Health Group raises awareness through performances of “Bad News? Good News!” in an Afrikan community.  No lights, camera, props or trained actors needed – just everyday people learning about and sharing valuable information to fight disease, and having some fun doing it. More…

Meet Dave Crumbacher 4

David Crumbacher is the Tech Lead for the Lilly Clinical Open Innovation Team, giving direction and guidance to a group of developers that, in his words, are “gifted, unique, and highly valued.”  Dave’s history at Eli Lilly and Company on the forefront of transformational technology is deep.  Dave joined Lilly after graduating from Southern Illinois University with a degree in computer science.  His contributions at Lilly have helped drug developers leverage leading technologies to innovate in the fight against disease.

Dave brings more than 20 years of experience in high performance computing and networking to Lilly Clinical Open Innovation.  From clustered VAX environments to today’s Internet-enabled cloud computing, Dave’s career has focused on helping scientists take advantage of computational and networking power.  He has a unique capacity for translation that few people have; he has a gift to share the  most complex technology with those who need to apply it.  It is a gift he attributes to patient coaching from his earliest days at Lilly.  But it may go further back than that.

You have a unique ability to describe the most technical aspects of your work for people.  Where did you get that?

I grew up in a small mid-western town where my dad ran a TV repair shop.  In those days, TV technology was a mystery to a lot of people, but my father was the kind of man who took the time to explain to his customers what was going on with their set, and what he could do to fix it for them.  I think that his ability to do that must have rubbed off on me at an early age.
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Clinical Collections: Using map view to drill down 1

Note: this post is the 2nd of a 3 part series explaining our Clinical Collections tool and helping users learn more about the facility this provides. Please find  Guided Walkthrough:Faceted search here. 

We, as a society, love graphs, photos and infographics.  In essence, we love seeing data represented in a visual manner. Also, in the last 5 or so years, we’ve been an online public which absolutely loves maps.

Think about it – if you’re looking for real estate online, the best way to find your perfect next home is by looking at the homes for sale in a map area where you can click on each home and see the streets surrounding it.

In this spirit, we’re proud to have a really cool map view feature in our Clinical Collections Tool.

To find the map view, let’s continue our Tuberculosis use case from our faceted search walk-through. In this case, I’m searching for trials regarding tuberculosis. To see map view, simply select Map from the list of options at top of the search screen:

You can then pull up the map view, showing all the tuberculosis search returns overlaid on to a map.

We, as a society, love graphs, photos and infographics.  In essence, we love seeing data represented in a visual manner. Also, in the last 5 or so years, we’ve been an online public which absolutely loves maps.

Think about it – if you’re looking for real estate online, the best way to find your perfect next home is by looking at the homes for sale in a map area where you can click on each home and see the streets surrounding it.

In this spirit, we’re proud to have a really cool map view feature in our Clinical Collections Tool.

To find the map view, let’s continue our Tuberculosis use case from our faceted search walk-through. In this case, I’m searching for trials regarding tuberculosis. To see map view, simply select Map from the list of options at top of the search screen:

You can then pull up the map view, showing all the tuberculosis search returns overlaid on to a map.

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Building An Open Clinical Intelligence Network 22

“Drug development processes must improve, and… open innovation methods can be used to make clinical development better and faster.”  These convictions are from our White Paper and express what drives the Lilly COI team.

But the processes will not improve without some necessary changes.  We believe that to make clinical development better and faster means allowing people around the world to contribute to clinical research.  To facilitate those contributions, clinical research data must be made accessible, consumable and useful.  To ultimately make life better for patients, the improvements we envision include two essentials: “webified data and motivated people.”
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