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'Self-Funding' Model

Cognizant Of Clinical Change

March 05, 2010

We've always thought of clinical data managers as members of what amounted to a quasi-religious order, like the Franciscans. Data managers serve as scientific priests, guiding wayward medical information back into the light, anointing and condemning clinical computer systems as appropriate. Then we got on the phone with Nagaraja Srivatsan, VP of the life science practice at…more...

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EDC Redesign

Phase Forward Makeover

June 23, 2009

In a major redesign of its flagship product for electronic data capture (EDC), Phase Forward has freshened up the user interface of one of the industry’s top packages. The changes are both cosmetic (no more red, green and yellow stoplight icons) and more structural. For fans of the stoplights, it's worth noting that some features of the…more...

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Friday News

Excel, PFC Pharma Team Up

June 18, 2009

Chicago-based but India-focused clinical trial management and site support organization Excel Life Sciences and Switzerland-based contract research organization (CRO) PFC Pharma Focus are launching PFC India, a full-service CRO specializing in clinical monitoring and data management services in India. The two will open an office for the new entity in New Delhi. PFC India will be a…more...

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Physician IT Links

Nextrials On The Move

March 05, 2009

For a large fraction of the clinical trial community, clinical data standards are like 1,200-page Russian novels. People claim to read them but seldom do. For electronic data capture (EDC) supplier Nextrials, however, standards are competitive weapons to showcase its strengths. This does not mean that Nextrials is brandishing anything. The firm is too nice. And standards…more...

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Webinar, New Guidance

EDC Is Dead? Long Live EHRs?

February 02, 2009

Let’s be as polite about this as possible. The American physician has not been keenly interested in using computers outside of a reimbursement context. Many doctors in the U.S. remain perplexed about whether computers in their exam rooms and offices are worth the investment. Some doctors feel electronic health record (EHR) systems cost them money and waste…more...

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Reorg, New CEO

etrials: Technology Will Be Key

December 23, 2008

M. Denis Connaghan is the new CEO at etrials. He’s been on the job a bit more than a month, since mid-November, and had just returned from meetings with clients on the west coast when we rang him up for a chat. “I didn’t hear, ‘we need another product from you. We need another technology from you,‘“…more...

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Magic Pen

Kayentis: Back to The Future

November 24, 2008

For years, we’ve been mocking it. There have been unkind remarks. Words like antique, prehistoric, pre-computer, Elizabethan. “Dickensian” is our favorite. We’re talking about ... paper. Then we found ourselves on the phone with a gentleman who makes a good argument for paper. “We provide immediate information for the sponsor or CRO. But we keep it very…more...

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Clinsys To Offer Services, Tech

India’s Jubilant Buys EDC Firm

November 18, 2008

Is the contract research organization serious about owning technology? It’s not clear. A peek at the eight regular members of ACRO, the blue-chip Association of Contract Research Organizations, reveals that just two companies own industrial strength electronic data capture (EDC) solutions. The rest are choosing to partner with technology firms—or remain shy and bashful about the contents…more...

March 10, 2010

Clinsys To Offer Services, Tech

India’s Jubilant Buys EDC Firm

The thinking behind Uttar Pradesh-based Jubilant Organosys’s purchase of the EDC solution from TrialStat.

Sex, Not Gender, Please

CDASH Case Report Form Push

The latest data standard from CDISC could help sites—and the industry—collect data. No more general comments.

EDC Plays Defense

Paper Is King! Long Live Paper!

The 2008 Society for Clinical Data Management meeting explored the lingering appeal of a certain form of dried tree extracts.

IT Help For Sites

TechTeam Gears Up

With a new strategy, publicly traded TechTeam Global begins angling for more clients that need computer support for clinical trials.

Data Accelerator

Phase Forward Touts Akamai

The firm says it’s been able to eliminate isolated latency issues for customers using its EDC system.

Tech, Service CRO

Paperless Push At Target Health

Target Health has had good news this year, as the company’s Jules Mitchel relates of his EDC and document management systems.


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