NowPos CEO, Vikram Marla to Speak at “The iMedicine & Mobile Life Sciences World Summit,” May 2012, Boston

Oak Park, CA, April 30, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Vikram Marla, CEO, NowPos M-Solutions, is to speak at the "iMedicine& Mobile Life Sciences World Summit" at Boston on May 16th, 2012. Vikram will address on how smart phones can be effectively used to manage treatment adherence, capture patient assessment data and monitor patients during Clinical Trials, thus assisting Investigators to manage their studies better in a shorter study cycle and at a much lower cost. The session highlight will be the benefits of using Smart Phones using information from studies performed by various investigators in multiple countries. Making it interactive – Vikram also plans to give the audience a flavor of PaDiSys, the world’s first truly mobile based Patient Reported Outcome Capturing and Treatment adherence solution.

The “iMedicine & Mobile Life Sciences World Summit” will give an opportunity to the mHealth developers to showcase and present their new technologies to a global eHealth audience. It explains educational needs or outcomes of App implementation to highlight progress, challenges, and opportunities in the highly dynamic digital age.

About PaDiSys from NowPos:
PaDiSys - The Patient Diary System is a smart phone based Patient Reported Outcome Capturing Solution designed and developed for Clinical and Behavioral Trials.

PaDiSys is offered to BioPharma and research sponsors and CROs as a turnkey solution during Clinical Trials to capture patient information at source, enabling Site Investigators, Clinical Staff, CROs and Sponsors to monitor "Patient Compliance" of a study.

Patient Compliance in a clinical trial comprises of taking the right dosage at the right time, adhering to the trial protocol, reporting actual outcomes on the scheduled time frames and diligently going for site visits. As a solution to all the aforementioned compliance items, PaDiSys allows the patients to receive Reminders, Alerts, Follow ups and captures Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) using smart phones by its modules of mobile Treatment Adherence system (mTA) and mobile Patient Reported Outcomes System (mPRO).

PaDiSys mTA, is a "Mobile Device Independent" treatment adherence management system that uses SMS technology to manage treatment adherence. The mTA solution allows the Clinical Investigators to send pre-set SMS at defined events to individual subjects mobile phone devices to maintain their trial compliance.

PaDiSys mPRO, on the other hand is an advanced configuration of the same platform that has the mTA features and allows patients to capture schedules or episode based assessments on a real-time basis using smart mobile phones.

About Vikram Marla:
Mr. Marla has 20+ years experience in pharmaceutical drug development technology solutions and an extensive knowledge of Clinical Trial processes. Mr. Marla developed Clinicopia–a clinical supply management system that is used by many of large global Pharma companies to manage their clinical trials. Mr. Marla heads NowPos M-Solutions, a company based out of CA, US, with its off-shore development centre in Hyderabad, India has developed an innovative clinical patient data capture and treatment adherence system, PaDiSys, using Smart phones.

Mr. Marla has published multiple articles in Pharmaceutical trade magazines and has spoken at the Drug Information Agency (DIA) on subjects ranging from clinical supply chain, use of service oriented model and other innovative technologies in the area of Clinical Trials.

Be there to know more and interact with Vikram. Send in an email to vikrant.patnaik@nowpos.com to book an appointment. Visit www.padisys.com to know more about PaDiSys.