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September 7, 2008
E-PRO Niche Expands
Diary Alliance: ClinPhone & invivodata
Two top firms, each specializing in different approaches to gathering patient experiences, will partner to help sponsors find the right technology.
Florida Conference
Deep invivodata Dive On Diaries
At a user meeting later this month, invivodata will unveil a new device from a company other than Palm.
The Glamor Factor
iPhones for Sites from assisTek
Using a tablet PC and the Apple phone, assiTek says larger screens can be helpful to science and sites.
Facing Frustrated Sponsors
Almac’s EDC, IVR Combo
Almac Clinical Technologies is adding electronic data capture to its expedited service offering.
Minimizing Data Re-entry
ClinPhone Combines EDC, IVR
A top technology supplier discusses the merits of combining two vital tools in a robust manner.
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...
Paying lip service to the woes of the investigative site is a time-honored hobby in the world of clinical trials. Doing something to really help the site? Rare. Boston patient diary company PHT is trying to change that. It has revamped its electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) software to run on… more...
Patient reported outcomes (ePRO) are a newly hot topic for the industry, with a second CBI conference dedicated to the topic barely half a year after an earlier event. There is a limited number of technology firms competing in the ePRO niche. Perhaps half a dozen. We have no idea… 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...
The most notable nugget from the Center for Business Intelligence’s (CBI) Arlington, Virginia meeting on patient-reported outcome (PRO) research late last month was not so much from the podium, though there was plenty of excellent material there. Some of the most interesting news was in the questions from attendees. Your… more...
Once you do anything 500 times, you know how to do it. The contract research organization ICON has a group dedicated to interactive voice response (IVR), and they’ve completed their 650th trial. Only a fifth of its projects come via the parent company’s traditional CRO services group; the remaining eighty… more...
At the end of this month, in Arlington, Virginia, ClinPage will be attending the inaugural Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) conference, sponsored by the Center for Business Intelligence. We’ve long felt the convergence of technological change and regulatory acceptance of PRO warranted a meeting. We can’t wait to attend. One of… more...
