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October 12, 2008
Monday News
Quanticate Launched in the U.S.
A few news bulletins on Aris Global, Oracle, Alphadas, Duke University and Quanticate.
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.
No one ever accused electronic data capture (EDC) systems of glamour. They all have a certain tabular sameness. EDC may be a newly welcome, even essential technology in the pharmaceutical industry. But beautiful? Yes, actually. At least from Nextrials. Founded in 1999, based in the San Francisco area, the company… more...
It was our first visit to the annual meeting of the Society for Clinical Data Management. Last week’s conference was held in our favorite city on the planet: Chicago. Maybe we were just in a sunny mood because of that. But we were still surprised by how rapidly the role… more...
Routine as it is to use electronic data capture (EDC), it is still instructive to overhear the thinking of an organization in using a new tool. The slate was wiped clean at Hospira, a pharmaceutical and medication delivery company that was spun out of Abbott Laboratories in 2004. The new… more...
The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) does not want for savvy high-energy volunteers or high-profile member organizations. For evidence of that, just hang out at CDISC’s user meeting, which is coming up in October. There’s just one problem. Using CDISC data standards, and doing so consistently throughout an organization,… more...
After 18 months of jostling and three victories, Datasci lost a patent lawsuit against DataTrak, a Cleveland, Ohio electronic data capture (EDC) company. “Under the terms of the settlement agreement, no payment is required and Datasci has agreed to dismiss its claims with prejudice. Datasci has further agreed that DataTrak… more...
Like a boxcar of iron ore on its journey to becoming a steel ingot, clinical data undergo a series of routine transformations. Even with the most meticulously organized or technologically adept organization, it has proven difficult for the industry to achieve anything close to efficiency in the long process that… more...
With Congress poised to legislate new mandates for post-approval studies, it seemed like a good time to talk to Richard Gliklich, the president of Outcome and a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. We covered his company’s substantive conference on what happens after drugs are approved here. Gliklich’s take-away… more...
Johnson & Johnson selected ArisGlobal as its drug safety solution, a significant endorsement for the pharmacovigilance software house. “With ArisGlobal’s ARISg robust feature set, flexible data model, intuitive user interface and ability to integrate with our key systems, Johnson & Johnson will incorporate this solution into our existing enterprise-wide processes,… more...
Tim Pratt cut his teeth in the world of medical devices, at Guidant and Medtronic, where a defibrillator can record 2,500 different variables. Fashioning a career out of working with such surging rivers of data, he landed at MedNet Solutions, where his title is chief marketing officer and principal scientific… more...
In a recent news brief about Omnicomm Systems, we noted that the electronic data capture company’s technology has been integrated with the with the NCI’s Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB) cancer Data Standards Repository (caDSR). In checking in with Stephen Johnson, Omnicomm’s senior VP of business development, it’s clear the company… more...
