Life Sciences

MSDN Life Sciences Center

Welcome to the MSDN Life Sciences Industry Center where you can find architecture guidance and technical material for CIOs, CTOs, Developers and Systems Architects in the life sciences industry. This industry center covers information relevant to pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies along with universities and other organizations in the life sciences industry.

Microsoft in the Life Sciences

We've updated both the main site and the MSDN site for the Microsoft Life Sciences industry unit. At these sites you'll find:

Up to date Life Sciences related events and webcasts
New case studies from life sciences accounts
Information on Microsoft partners that specialize in Life Sciences
And more!

You'll find more information at http://www.microsoft.com/lifesciences.

Microsoft Roadshow for Medical Devices

We've just completed a Roadshow focused on Medical Devices - particularly the use of Windows Embedded for Medical Devices. In the set of presentations we covered trends in the Medical Device industry, the Windows Embedded roadmap for Medical Devices, and a presentation from a partner Logic on case studies from FDA regulated device companies using Windows Embedded.

To see the presentations simply go to: http://www.microsoftembeddedseminars.com/medicaldevicedownloads.aspx.

Featured Articles and Whitepapers

	Validation Guidance for FDA Regulated Companies This whitepaper maps the Life Sciences industry standard v-model to the product development lifecycle within Microsoft in order to support software validation efforts for customers in FDA regulated industries.
	Configuring SharePoint for Part 11 Compliance Guidance for a 21 CFR Part 11 implementation on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This white paper provides detailed guidance in configuring SharePoint for 21 CFR Part 11, describing the regulation, and how to configure SharePoint 2007 to satisfy each part of the regulation.
	SAFE Signing Interface for Office 2007 Available as a community supported open source utility, the SAFE Signing Interface for Office 2007 can allow companies to use Word 2007 to SAFE sign documents for submission to FDA.
	SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance Whitepaper This paper presents the key decision points, architecture design and definition, and test criteria and results from a scalability and performance test conducted at the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) in Redmond, Washington. It is intended to provide strategic information about designing a high-volume, high-availability enterprise solution that can easily grow.
	Microsoft Health - Common User Interface The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides User Interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide rage of patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations worldwide (including Medical Device manufacturers!).