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July 20, 2008
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.
Medidata Buys Fast Track
Protocol Optimization and EDC
A new combination of firms has alluring possibilities for refining clinical protocols.
Modern Data Monitoring
Lilly On EDC Changes
Lilly discusses how data management is changing in the era of electronic data capture.
Global Research Services (GRS), a contract research organization, announced the successful U.S. launch of a clinical trial management on-line training initiative in collaboration with the University of Rochester Medical Center. The web-based, interactive course entitled “Managing Clinical Trials: A Comprehensive Continuing Education Course for Health Care Professionals” focuses on providing… more...
I have been involved with EDC (electronic data capture) for more than two decades now. During this time, I have been exposed to a variety of systems. On occasion, I get asked what makes a good EDC system. The person asking the question is usually looking for a short list… more...
There can be a slight chill between contract research organizations (CROs) and electronic data capture (EDC) firms that work together. In a pinch, either firm could dent the credibility of the other. It’s not always clear whether this CRO or that EDC firm might be included or omitted from a… more...
When quarterly revenue jumps 70 percent from one year to the next, as it recently did for Phoenix Data Systems, something must be appealing to the firm’s electronic data capture (EDC) customers. The Philadelphia-area firm started 118 new trials for 38 clients during the first 9 months of 2007. Fifteen… more...
The integration of electronic data capture (EDC) with interactive voice response (IVR) systems to randomize patients is a natural one, and not routinely managed in a seamless manner. Two Florida firms are trying to make that easier. Late last year, OmniComm Systems, the small, publicly traded EDC firm, and IVR… more...
If all goes as planned, contract research organization (CRO) Quintiles Transnational will have a new mix of owners come January. On Dec. 21, the company announced that one investor is selling its ownership stake, while two others are staying around, and two new investors are coming on board. The amount… more...
The modern clinical trial is built around a 2,000-year tool invented by the Chinese. Paper. Case report forms. Signatures. Binders of paper. Trucks filled with paper. FDA warehouses trembling under the heft of it. Some industries might be ashamed. Not ours. In the life sciences, every self-respecting company can talk… more...
Electronic data capture (EDC) has received the most attention in large pharmaceutical companies, but it may also have profound consequences in smaller scientific organizations. Indeed, it could do for biomedical research what the Internet did for communications: democratize it. The technology may foster a multidisciplinary, global research opportunity for new… more...
Rapid growth in the electronic data capture (EDC) industry is unfolding. If it resembles other sectors of the technology space, a handful of companies (or even a single firm) could dominate. It’s not clear which of the current entrants will emerge as the IBM or Microsoft of the clinical trial… more...
Our notebook still has a few gems from IIR’s Clinical Technology ("CTECH") conference, held last month in Philadelphia, which was where we heard Jane Clarke from Wyeth speak. One highlight is a presentation by Pfizer’s Mike Collins. A VP of development operations, he was the subject of this February story… more...
