“It’s a ride, ride, ride, and there ain’t much cover.” That Bruce Springsteen lyric came to mind as we were listening to the etrials call with financial analysts last week. On the face of it, it should have been a fine quarter, with gross revenues up 25 percent in the…more...

On the eve of the Drug Information Association (DIA) meeting next week, ClinPhone announced ClinPhone Compact. It’s a web-based tool, using the telephone and the internet, to manage patient randomization and drug supplies. To use the jargon, Compact is both an interactive voice response (IVR) and interactive web response (IWR)…more...

Contract research organization (CRO) Kendle International (Nasdaq: KNDL) has chosen ClinPhone as its electronic data capture (EDC) vendor, and that comes as something of a surprise. Not because of ClinPhone, which is ramping up efforts to play in the most bruising tier of the EDC arena. What’s stunning is the…more...

Once again, Phase Forward reported quarterly financial numbers of surprising strength. For its first quarter of 2007, the company logged a double-digit increase of 27 percent in revenue (to $30.1 million). Most of the firm is built around its InForm electronic data capture (EDC) product. License, hosting and other revenues…more...

Perceptive Informatics has a new software guru, chief technology officer and vice president of software.  He is industry veteran Sina Adibi, who came over from those same posts at Thomson Scientific, where he’d been for 13 years. Seven-year old Perceptive is the fastest growing arm of Boston-area-based contract research organization…more...

The clinical technology suite DataTrak is at an interesting juncture. Some customers using the new electronic data capture (EDC) system, which eliminates the need for integration or reconciliation of data between disparate systems. Other customers are still using the company’s old application but migrating to the new one. DataTrak’s technology…more...

Rob Musterer is director, clinical systems support at Bayer Healthcare. He is also head of a center of excellence dedicated to information systems for clinical R&D systems. Musterer has worked in the industry since 1981, and has watched several cycles of technology come and go. Like many people in the…more...

etrials posted net service revenues of $4.2 million during the most recent quarter, a 54 percent jump.  For the year, total revenues surged 41 percent, to $19.2 million. At the end of 2006, the company said, it had 30 active customers and 100 active trials. etrials has $20 million in…more...

The big news about ClinPhone is a few months old, but it’s still big. The company bought and is busy integrating a California electronic data capture solution, DataLabs. But ClinPhone is hardly neglecting its base, as we discovered in chatting with two executives in Europe. Ralf Oxenfarth was recently appointed…more...

We’re diving back into our notes from the Clinical Trials Congress (CTC). That would be a 10,000-word, 53-page monster document. Whew. But every time we take another peek, there is more strong material to post. We’re going to tackle some fascinating material from Novartis tomorrow and Wyeth (with luck) on…more...