But McNamee says he can keep up the growth, by performing more of the life-insurance-application process for companies and by carefully expanding into related lines, such as monitoring clinical trials for drug companies--another opportunity opened up by the Internet, which offers the most efficient way to track and report such events.
Chief executive Ryan Howard plans to mine what he says is a database of 40 million patients by, for example, helping pharmaceutical companies enroll patients in clinical trials, or monitoring a drug following its release on the market.
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Clinical trials, which involve monitoring thousands of patients for months or years, are very expensive.
Clinical trials and post-marketing monitoring of Gardasil, made by Merck, and Cervarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, showed side effects similar to placebo.
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Bishop is bullish on eResearch because of its rapid growth, driven by its dominance of centralized cardiographic monitoring of patients participating in clinical drug trials.
Hennekens led studies that helped establish the health benefits of aspirin and also spends a lot of time serving on committees known as data monitoring boards, which help keep participants in clinical trials safe.
For example, AirStrip offers virtual real time remote patient heart monitoring technology to a broad array of acute patient clinical settings.
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The advantages of constant body monitoring are still largely theoretical, and must be proven in clinical trials.
But UKBA relocations were separating women from specialist treatment and monitoring, it said, contrary to National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guidance.
Data safety monitoring boards (DSMBs) are chartered to look at data from clinical trials as it comes into protect the safety of patient volunteers.
Also, monitoring should continue once products are on the market with the aim of linking genetic variability with clinical outcome.
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