The conference addresses topical issues relating to pharma-bio-med information, solutions to current challenges, best practices in information retrieval and handling, and technical papers from experienced users of information within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical information fields. In conjunction with the conference plenary sessions, there is an extensive Exhibits Hall featuring the products and services of many information product and service providers such as database producers and hosts, scientific and information publishers, software solutions providers, etc. Through add-on workshops and training seminars, special emphasis will be given to Continuing Education & Training.
Examples of areas that Pharma-Bio-Med has addressed and will continue to develop over future meetings include:
Enabling technologies including integration, text mining, visualization
Scientific and technical literature, including databases and other sources;
Techniques for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and biomedical information;
Pre-clinical trials information;
Clinical trials information;
Medical information
Regulatory information;
Safety information;
Drug pipeline information;
Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Business information;
Competitor Intelligence; and
Other topics including: bioinformatics, chemistry in the pharma environment, biosequence searching, genomics, medical devices, etc., Integration technologies could include RSS feed integration platforms, integrating pipeline information with business information., etc.