A largely cryptic news release from a relatively unknown (in the U.S.) firm, Cardiff, has won the company’s “data capture” business. To quote the release: “Cardiff, a division of Autonomy Corporation and leading provider of intelligent document solutions, today announced that Pfizer, the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company, has signed…more...

The world has two basic styles of speech. There is the overly polite, formal, and all too politically correct official English. This is what appears in press releases and formal statements. And then there is a nasty, gossipy, pointed patois used when people are among friends and assume no one…more...

Later this week, on Thursday, the electronic data capture firm TrialStat! and biostatistical software house Cytel’s Jerald Schindler, president of that company’s Pharmaceutical Research Division, will be participating in a webinar on EDC and adaptive trials. ClinPage will moderate the discussion. You can sign up here. It’s free. As we’ve…more...

Procela is a newish consultancy with oldish, by which we mean seasoned partners, each with more than 20 years of experience in the life sciences, whether that be government and academia,  Glaxo or Merck or smaller startups. Procela has a partner on the west coast and a strong UK presence.…more...

A leading electronic data capture company, DSG, settled a suit brought by Datasci, a Maryland shell company that has been the beneficiary of an apparent blunder by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. For readers new to the story, the USPTO inexplicably…more...

Based in San Ramon, California, in the San Francisco orbit, Nextrials is one of the industry’s better-kept secrets. The company’s main focus is electronic data capture (EDC), but its vision of what customers need has always been broader than most. The company’s EDC software, called Prism, has built-in modules to…more...

As the clinical trial becomes more digital, less paper-encrusted, it will be interesting to watch whether new efficiencies emerge—or whether new bottlenecks are simply exchanged for the old ones. Are the obvious gains of electronic data capture (EDC) at the end of a trial squandered during new delays at the…more...

Medidata launched its next version of Rave last week. For the first time, as we posted yesterday, the company is explicitly offering built-in clinical data management system functionality inside an electronic data capture (EDC) solution. Whew. That’s a mouthful. But it means that more people will have to be sure…more...

Last week Medidata launched its most direct attack yet on two established rivals, Phase Forward and Oracle Clinical. The end game for dominance of the e-clinical space is well under way. Later in the week, we’ll describe in more detail Medidata’s efforts to wean away customers with preferences for a…more...

Akaza Research announced that documentation and installation notes for its OpenClinica platform can be created online using an Akaza wiki. Akaza bills OpenClinica as a HIPAA and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant, strictly standards-based, extensible, and modular platform. It provides electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management. Here are…more...