Clinilabs, a small Manhattan-based contract research organization (CRO), may have just positioned itself to effectively compete with more established or hulking competitors. Frustrated with the available software for processing electrocardiogram (ECG) data, Clinilabs connected with the tech company Analyzing Medical Parameters for Solutions (AMPS), also based in Manhattan, to come…more...

The gap was glaring. And it has been filled. For the first time, more than a decade after the technology emerged, Parexel can offer customers a viable electronic data capture (EDC) solution. Last week, the Waltham, Mass. company concluded its $192 million acquisition of ClinPhone, based in Nottingham, UK. Parexel…more...

It started modestly three years ago. Covance asked 16 clients to talk frankly about how they could work together better. Now, the effort has grown far beyond that, boasting members like Pfizer, Quintiles, Eli Lilly and PharmaNet, which seek performance metrics that can be applied to many parts of pharmaceutical…more...

Last week, online, Frost & Sullivan analyst Somya Datta dropped a ton of facts, figures and projections about global pharmaceutical outsourcing on those listening in on her quarterly briefing from India. Here’s what we learned: Datta, of Frost & Sullivan’s economics research and analytics division, said that the global pharmaceutical…more...

Jules Mitchel might be a good source to consult if you doubt the continents of services and technology are tectonically colliding. With his wife, Joyce, Mitchel runs Target Health, a small New York contract research organization (CRO) that has always been keenly interested in building its own technology—both for the…more...

Trio Clinical Research Management, a rare contract research organization (CRO)-staffing company hybrid, was going great guns. The company had a 95 percent client retention rate. It had no debt. Both sides of the business were booming. And owners Betsy Brown and Faye Woolf, friends since the 1980s, were happy as…more...

Many of the delays seen in trials these days originate in the start-up phase. The parties agree to get moving, and then a protocol is untenable, or the investigators can’t find as many patients as expected, or regulatory snafus appear. Chaos ensues. Feasibility studies can be a way to circumvent…more...

Looking for a contract research organization (CRO) that also has its own Phase I research facility? Well, you can try large firms like Quintiles, Parexel and MDS. Or you can call the relatively diminutive Clinilabs. Manhattan-based Clinilabs is one of the few—if not the only—small CRO with its own sizable…more...

Dude! Why now? Why ClinPhone? That was what we wanted to ask Josef von Rickenbach. Founder, chairman and CEO of Parexel, a contract research organization (CRO) with 7,300 employees, he recently offered $192 million for ClinPhone. It’s not clear at this writing if any other bidders will appear, or whether…more...

For the contract research organization (CRO) serving multiple clients, it can be tough to stay abreast of multiple projects all over the world. In many ways, the technology advances of the past few years have made this more onerous, not less. The sheer number of systems with vital data continues…more...