The Content Cloud for life sciences
Managing R&D content lifecycles with Box
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Vaccine research, travel regulations, supply chain disruptions, quarantines, and the ticking clock of a pandemic have underlined the importance of a competitive edge.
While most life sciences organizations won’t face the pressure of developing a lifesaving vaccine in the face of a global health crisis, their work remains critical to the health and well-being of millions. But manual, paper-based processes hold back research and development, making innovation more difficult.
Your industry faces major challenges.
Disrupted clinical studies
Elevated drug pricing scrutiny
Restrictions on site visits for inspections and audits
Decreasing medical device revenue due to a drastic decline in elective care
Box helps teams overcome these challenges with tools that:
Simplify promotional material distribution
Improve quality management
Speed up clinical collaboration
Optimize regulatory compliance
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Industry challenges
Speeding up clinical collaboration
Improving quality management
Box + FDA
Simplify your promotions
Box + AstraZeneca
Do more with the Content Cloud
Collaboration between sponsors and CROs is critical to bringing medicine to market faster. But managing content and workflows has never been more complex. Sponsors and CROs need to work closely together from remote locations, while external partners and vendors need to complete specific tasks. Meanwhile, teams also must keep regulators in the loop.
Box streamlines your research exchange of regulated and non-regulated clinical assets between sponsors and external alliances, including clinical research organizations (CROs) and research partners.
The traditional process for communication and collaboration is fragmented.
Emails, faxes, paper files, and employee hard drives lock data into silos.
Organizations grapple with slow information exchange.
Sensitive data is at a high risk for breaking the chain of custody.
Old way
New way
The Content Cloud — a single, secure, easy-to-use content platform — empowers you to:
Accelerate research collaboration and exchange of regulated and non-regulated clinical assets between sponsors and external alliances, such as CROs and research partners
Securely monitor clinical sites and verify source documents with GxP Validation, granular permissions, and data governance
Improve researcher collaboration on clinical (SAS) datasets when working with programmers and data managers
The Content Cloud for clinical collaboration
With Box, you remotely monitor all site content. Investigators can drag and drop information or capture documents anywhere, on any device, improving workflows and freeing up time to focus on what truly matters.
In the absence of these tools, regulators must visit multiple remote clinical sites to manually monitor and review site files. Investigators are pulled away to find files or learn a new content management system, disrupting patient care.
Major issues can arise from standard operating procedures (SOPs) without simpler management.
• SOPs require significant onboarding and training
Create, share, and publish policies and SOPs faster from draft to disposal.
Each time a research and development partner begins a vendor collaboration, they must spend valuable time training on SOPs
• SOPs are complex and contain sensitive information
If a partner fails to secure SOPs properly, they become vulnerable to compliance breaches
• SOPs constantly change
Employees who download SOPs to their computers risk working with obsolete information
Box makes it simple to create, share, and publish SOPs across the entire document lifecycle.
Easily access, share, and update documents • Partners always have the latest information
Protect sensitive information • Regulated procedures have access limited to appropriate personnel
Stay proactive and prepared • End users and trainers on SOPs always have access to the most recent version of the SOP
Do more with less
Box lets you manage the lifecycle of a controlled document — from GxP document creation to sharing procedures to external alliances — using one repository. Leverage helpful apps and services like ComplianceQuest (for documents as well as change and learning management) and USDM Life Sciences (for solution implementation and maintenance).
Best-of-breed partner integrations simplify your quality management workflows.
Watch the webinar “Work Faster and Smarter in Biotech Quality Management” to learn how bundling your solutions with Box simplifies workflows and saves you money.
Create Collaborate Intake
Distribute Publish Archive
Document Management Change Management Learning Management
Controlled Lifecycle
Implementation + Validation + Cloud Assurance
How Box helps the FDA perform smarter audits
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration chose Box to help inspectors improve collaboration with sponsors and CROs, and streamline the ongoing industry audits.
Customer case study
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Research and development organizations manage dozens of document versions with each document approved for its specific country.
Promotional materials now include multimedia content, such as videos
SOPs are complex and contain sensitive information
• File sizes frequently exceed 100 GB • Managing and sharing files has become more difficult
Delays to promo material release occur when:
Get promotional materials approved and into the market faster by securely sharing with field medical affairs personnel.
Promotional materials are critical to bringing new medicines and devices to market. However, materials are highly regulated, with each market having its own rules for what can be said and how to say it.
Sales and marketing risks are present
• An incorrect document gets shared • Teams can’t access the right documents
File sizes frequently exceed 100 GB
An incorrect document gets shared
Managing and sharing files has become more difficult
Teams can’t access the right documents
Box makes it simple to bring promotional materials to market by providing healthcare professionals in different regions appropriate access to the information they need.
Control and audit access • Get promo materials approved and into the market faster by securely sharing with field medical affairs personnel
Help field reps easily access content • Quickly access approved, accurate files in real time
Confidential content stays confidential • Add watermarks Restrict access to keep information out of emails
Increase field rep effectiveness with faster content sharing from CRM integrations and mobile devices
Avoid penalties by maintaining compliance on content audit trail when collaborating with agencies and medical affairs teams
How AstraZeneca centralizes its IP in the Content Cloud
Box sits at the center of a best-of-breed ecosystem that includes Salesforce and Office 365. A team of more than 8,000 global reps can now access sales assets from tablets in the field, while compliance with critical industry regulations is now guaranteed.
With Box, life sciences organizations optimize how they manage regulated and non-regulated content in the cloud so they maintain compliance, improve collaboration with partners, and leverage the power of other applications. The Content Cloud gives you the single, secure platform you need to enable teamwork, protect information, and drive innovation.
Find out how Box helps organizations like yours optimize the entire content management lifecycle.
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About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the Content Cloud, a single platform that empowers organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle, work securely from anywhere, and integrate across best-of-breed apps. Founded in 2005, Box is trusted by 67% of the Fortune 500, including AstraZeneca, General Electric, JLL, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Visit box.com to learn more.
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