Electronic patient-reported outcome systems are in high demand. Over the past six months, there has been an unprecedented number of new devices for research. Now there’s another one, due next week. At the 2008 annual meeting of the Drug Information Association (DIA), which holds its mega-event in Boston this year,…more...
Sponsors are willing to spend to make sites’ lives easier. Tablet PCs for electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO) seem to be an increasingly popular means to that end. Earlier this year, PHT announced a tablet for clinical trial sites. assisTek has had a tablet for a while. Now Pittsburgh’s invivodata is…more...
Is the $300 million interactive voice response system (IVRS) industry ripe for change? Is it failing to keep pace with the timelines of industry? Is it possible to transfer randomization to the web and have the customized nuances embedded in the system? Yes on all counts, says Ed Tourtellotte, proprietor…more...
They were going to the same meetings. Seeing each other in the same airports. Bidding on the same projects. One thing lead to another. Then, just yesterday, ClinPhone and invivodata announced a global marketing alliance for electronic patient-reported outcomes. The press release is here. It’s the latest sign that the…more...
In the latest sign that the Palm platform will no longer be the sole major entrant in the clinical trial arena, invivodata is expected to preview a Windows-based tablet computer. The occasion: the company’s 2008 user meeting, to be held April 29-May 1 in Boca Raton, Florida. Palm is a…more...
We read a surprising statistic the other day. According to market research firm NPD Group, Apple’s iPhone has blazed past Microsoft and Motorola in less than a year, capturing 16 percent of the smart phone market. It’s now second only to the Blackberry from RIM. Among all cell phones, Apple’s…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...
We’ve always envied tabloid reporters who can cover the surgery on “Siamese” or conjoined twins. Here at ClinPage, we seldom have the opportunity to write about anything with such drama. Where the stakes are fairly high. Until now. In truth, this article concerns adolescents, not infants. For there are certain…more...
Little is known. But what’s there is tantalizing. Parexel International has offered to buy ClinPhone. ClinPhone has rebuffed the overture for now. Matters may go no farther. A merger of the two firms, now hypothetical, would change the conventional wisdom about how services and technologies should be combined in clinical…more...
Simplicity is precious. Its absence is irksome. We spent the past week (unsuccessfully) troubleshooting one Microsoft networking glitch. Microsoft engineers are trained to camouflage their messes as simplicity. Google engineers have a different approach. They deliver simplicity. Google can send its web-based Google Calendar alerts to mobile phones with no…more...
January 8, 2009
PHT offers a new Windows device from HP for recording patient experiences.
With a sleek computer for sites, the Pittsburgh firm offers a larger canvas for electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO).
Ed Tourtellotte says slow, customized randomization is holding back the industry.
Two top firms, each specializing in different approaches to gathering patient experiences, will partner to help sponsors find the right technology.
At a user meeting later this month, invivodata will unveil a new device from a company other than Palm.
Using a tablet PC and the Apple phone, assiTek says larger screens can be helpful to science and sites.
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