With pharma companies coming under increasing pressure to improve profits and speedproduct development times, how can the industry harness technology to drive down the costof the clinical development process?

The majority of clinical studies fall behind schedule due to slower than expected patient enrollment. Traditional methods that rely on the study site to recruit patients have not evolved and continue to render disappointment that negatively affect the study and often the relationship between “investigator prescribers” and sponsors.

The Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco, focuses its efforts on understanding and addressing the challenges faced by health care workers.

In 2000, St. Luke’s Hospital & Health Network was facing a host of industry and operational challenges ranging from staff retention to cost containment to patient satisfaction.

Every year countless businesses that appear to have all the right stuff—great vision and the operational capabilities to implement it—fail. Why? The answer is simple: They fail because they don’t have good leaders.