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May 12, 2008
Master Service Agreements
Lilly Playing Favorites
In the second segment of our series on investigator relationship management, Lilly discusses plans to zero in on high-performing sites.
Goal: Improve Investigator Ties
Wyeth’s Site Initiative
Sponsors are abuzz about site relationship management (SRM). In the first installment of our series, Wyeth describes its efforts to become the sponsor of choice.
Exclusive Interview
Phase Forward Moves Into Phase I
Why Phase Forward bought Green Mountain Logic, a specialist in Phase I and management of laboratory samples and data.
Real-Time Lab Data
LabPas Tools For Phase I, EDC
Green Mountain Logic is prospering by helping Phase I clinical sites with labs, scheduling and recruitment. Some predictions about the CRO industry usage of the software.
Appeal In Biotech, CRO Sectors
A Challenger: The ClinPhone CTMS
Some customers invest in a clinical trial management system for better visibility into a trial. Others like owning their data for future projects.
In 2007, Montpelier, Vermont’s Green Mountain Logic has announced it would integrate its LabPas CT laboratory management software with no fewer than five electronic data capture vendors (ClinPhone, etrials, Omnicomm Systems, Phase Forward, and Phoenix Data Systems). To find out why Green Mountain Logic is on a roll, we rang… more...
The clinical trial management system (CTMS) is a software Cinderella in the world of research. By dint of its modesty and centrality to the smooth operation of a trial, the CTMS should be a full-fledged member of the family of tools to support industry-sponsored studies. It isn’t. Yet. In a… more...
Should a clinical trial unfold like a beloved family recipe, by rote from a time-honored template passed down through generations of trial operations managers? That is one approach in the industry. Or should the process be dynamic and interactive, driven by actual and simulated data? That’s the modus operandi of… more...
In an industry with so many seasoned people, why do so few trials finish on time and at budget? If we can send people into space, shouldn’t we know what it will cost to study a new antibiotic? ClearTrial may be able to bring some modern managerial brio to the… more...
A while back, we wrote about the need to rethink the seat-of-the-pants school of managing drug supplies in this article. Since then, Tourtellotte Consulting has partnered to integrate its application with the interactive voice response system (IVRS) from the Perceptive Informatics division of Parexel. The idea? To make sure the… more...
Husbanding drug supply as judiciously as possible is a no brainer. Often as not, even experienced trial managers throw a few numbers and assumptions into an Excel spreadsheet—and hope for the best. But what about customs? Where are your depots? Is there a central randomization of patients? What is the… more...
The high prominence of electronic data capture has obscured the importance of the clinical data management system (CDMS) and the clinical trial management system (CTMS). Neither is especially exciting or electrifying. That’s not our judgment. It’s obvious from the lack of investment or entrepreneurial activity in either the CTMS or… more...
Can a large pharma build a clinical data reporting system that employees will actually clamor to use? Wait. Back up. What is the ultimate objective for any system for clinical trial data? Is it to make a dramatic investment in something new (software) that embalms something old (a sea of… more...
It’s no secret that most Wall Street firms wrestle simultaneously with 1) signing up merger & acquisition customers and 2) objectively assessing the same companies that are merging. Value Line, on the other hand, just worries about 2). Which is why the company has a cult following despite the pricey… more...
Advanced Clinical Software (ACS) has joined the Clinical Research Forum IT Roundtable. The group brings together industry leaders in clinical research, including solution providers, to develop information technology strategies that benefit the field of clinical research at academic health centers. There’s not a ton of information about the Roundtable online,… more...
