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May 12, 2008
Almac Clinical Technologies is adding electronic data capture to its expedited service offering.
A top technology supplier discusses the merits of combining two vital tools in a robust manner.
The ramifications of a deal that may never come to pass.
A text-messaging system to contact patients in clinical trials is also designed to shrink the telephone-calling obligations of investigative sites.
The patient-reported outcome company moves its software to a Samsung device with a new form factor and operating system.
Is the $300 million interactive voice response system (IVRS) industry ripe for change? Is it failing to keep pace with the timelines of industry? Is it possible to transfer randomization to the web and have the customized nuances embedded in the system? Yes on all counts, says Ed Tourtellotte, proprietor… more...
They were going to the same meetings. Seeing each other in the same airports. Bidding on the same projects. One thing lead to another. Then, just yesterday, ClinPhone and invivodata announced a global marketing alliance for electronic patient-reported outcomes. The press release is here. It’s the latest sign that the… more...
In the latest sign that the Palm platform will no longer be the sole major entrant in the clinical trial arena, invivodata is expected to preview a Windows-based tablet computer. The occasion: the company’s 2008 user meeting, to be held April 29-May 1 in Boca Raton, Florida. Palm is a… more...
We read a surprising statistic the other day. According to market research firm NPD Group, Apple’s iPhone has blazed past Microsoft and Motorola in less than a year, capturing 16 percent of the smart phone market. It’s now second only to the Blackberry from RIM. Among all cell phones, Apple’s… more...
Is everything coming together? Apparently. As we wrote last week in this story about ClinPhone, the integration of two central clinical technologies—electronic data capture (EDC) and randomization—is in the air. Firms like Clarix, DataTrak and etrials have their own approaches, which typically involve a single database. Almac Clinical Technologies, like… more...
We’ve always envied tabloid reporters who can cover the surgery on “Siamese” or conjoined twins. Here at ClinPage, we seldom have the opportunity to write about anything with such drama. Where the stakes are fairly high. Until now. In truth, this article concerns adolescents, not infants. For there are certain… more...
Little is known. But what’s there is tantalizing. Parexel International has offered to buy ClinPhone. ClinPhone has rebuffed the overture for now. Matters may go no farther. A merger of the two firms, now hypothetical, would change the conventional wisdom about how services and technologies should be combined in clinical… more...