Pharmaceutical sponsors and their contract organizations, such as contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs), need to share a lot of information. But typical data sharing processes are highly manual, during both extraction and ingestion, and thus inefficient and error-prone. So how can partner organizations begin to integrate their digital systems, to create more efficiency?

David Wallace, a Senior Global Change Facilitator at BioPhorum, has spent a lot of time exploring this question. And through the curiously named DISCO program (Digital Integration of Sponsor and Contract Organizations), David facilitates collaboration among leading biopharmaceutical manufacturers, contract organizations, and IT solution providers to identify solutions.

In this interview, David shares what the group has been learning about how ...