Differentiation Via Psychometrics
August 09, 2010
Safety. Efficacy. Are those two cardinal notions of clinical development enough? Jean Paty has a third. He believes it is as central as safety and efficacy.
Paty is co-founder and senior VP of scientific, quality and regulatory affairs at invivodata, a Pittsburgh, Penn., electronic patient diary firm. If safety and efficacy are the X and Y axes…more...
Diary, Respiratory Deal
May 03, 2010
Are patient-reported outcomes a growth industry? A business?
Philadelphia's ERT apparently thinks so, having just paid $81 million for the clinical trial business of Carefusion. The purchase could increase ERT's revenue by 50 percent, to perhaps $150 million yearly. That would put it in the general ballpark of the sales at Parexel's technology division or …more...
Diary Deal
January 20, 2010
After doing 20 trials together, Quintiles and ediary supplier invivodata announced a closer partnership. For the large contract research organization, the relationship likely brings additional scientific firepower to a research niche newly legitimized by a final FDA guidance document in patient reported outcomes (PRO).
For the Pittsburgh ediary supplier, meanwhile, the relationship will bring more projects and…more...
Regulatory Pressure
July 29, 2009
The modern patient-reported outcome (PRO) study does not unfold in a vacuum. Whether launched via the web, a telephone interactive voice response system (IVRS), or a dedicated handheld device, most PRO projects rely on an army of external consultants and suppliers.
Simple web- and IVRS-based PRO studies can handle only so much complexity, only so much branching…more...
NCI Project
The Mayo Clinic’s Jeff Sloan discusses where the field of patient-reported outcomes has come from and where it could be headed.
Interactive Listings
In the first of a ClinPage series, a sense of the centrality of the patient—and new levels of comfort with tools for electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO).
Almac, PHT, Medidata
The technology firms have simplified the ways that customers can pass data from two systems to a third.
PHT Announcement
The Boston patient-reported outcome firm discusses ways to make running diary projects a bit easier.
Parexel, Phase Forward
The two Boston-area firms appear headed for a more intense IVR rivalry.
Rapid Launches
Rachael King, the new head of patient diary firm CRF, discusses trends and a robust pipeline.
Magic Pen
From France, a hybrid system that uses special paper and a scanner-pen to gather clinical data.
