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September 7, 2008
Thursday News
Microsoft-Smart CTMS from TranSenda
With bulletins about Octagon Research, TrialStat, Innovaderm, Phase Forward, AG Mednet, Chiltern, EPS, Frontage Laboratories, Advanced Biomedical Research, Microsoft and TranSenda.
At The Next Level
Making EDC Scale
ClinPhone’s David Stein discusses the challenges of achieving wide, global deployment of EDC.
EDC at The Next Level
EDC Training Challenges
Helping clinical trial professionals get the most out of EDC systems, Paula McHale says, requires paying more attention to training.
Next Gen EDC
Helping EDC Scale Globally
How to take the technology to the next level? ClinPhone’s David Stein weighs in. The first of a five-part series.
Top '08 Talk
Realizing (Or Missing) EDC’s Potential
Consultant Ron Waife of Waife & Associates discusses what eclinical means and why it matters.
There is no doubt that usage of electronic data capture (EDC) is growing, and rapidly. The question is whether there is broad awareness of new obstacles that its very success has created. When EDC as a technology was primarily in ramp-up mode, pioneers were busy working out the kinks. They… more...
Should the life sciences be in a self-congratulatory mood about moving away from paper and toward electronic data capture (EDC)? Nope. For Ron Waife, president of Waife & Associates, it may be premature to ask John Williams to compose a symphony to celebrate the shift. Waife is simply not sure… more...
Want science with that? That question hangs over the recent acquisition of 35-employee Fast Track Systems by Medidata Solutions, a leading electronic data capture (EDC) vendor. The deal (but no price) was announced in March. It is an intriguing and potentially game-changing event in the clinical trial technology sector. The… more...
With the adoption of any new technology—from coal to lasers—lofty expectations are slowly eroded by the day-to-day reality of the technology in actual use. In the clinical trial landscape, the tool of the hour is electronic data capture (EDC). Is it helping? Is it making a difference? Jason Ridderikhoff, regional… more...
There is scarcely a more tired phrase than “it’s not rocket science.” But what if electronic data capture were conceived as something that had to be as robust as the software to protect astronauts or Navy pilots? That seems to be the approach of Prelude Dynamics, a Texas startup with… more...
Outsource, outsource, outsource. It seems to be a mantra that has hit even clinical trials these days. The list of companies with significant data management outsourcing seems to keep growing. Wyeth, Eli-Lilly, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, to name a few. How is it that this situation has arisen? From a variety of… more...
It had been a while. Years, actually. But Bruce Schatzman, president and CEO of Advanced Clinical Software (ACS) seems to be doing even better than we expected. He started the firm back in 1993. In our last conversation, published here a long time ago, he wasn’t too worried about Oracle.… more...
Hold on to your desk. A major electronic data capture (EDC) vendor recently announced a revision to its technology that is ... entirely internet based. This was similar to announcing the development of a stone wheel that is ... round. It’s fine to brag about a round wheel with a… 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...
The pharmaceutical industry is seemingly in agreement that electronic data capture (EDC) is a good idea. Even obligatory. But let’s back up: what is EDC? Is it software? If so, why can it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to get every trial started? Is EDC more properly considered a… more...
