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Reorg, New CEO

etrials: Technology Will Be Key

December 23, 2008

M. Denis Connaghan is the new CEO at etrials. He’s been on the job a bit more than a month, since mid-November, and had just returned from meetings with clients on the west coast when we rang him up for a chat. “I didn’t hear, ‘we need another product from you.…more...

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Magic Pen

Kayentis: Back to The Future

November 24, 2008

For years, we’ve been mocking it. There have been unkind remarks. Words like antique, prehistoric, pre-computer, Elizabethan. “Dickensian” is our favorite. We’re talking about ... paper. Then we found ourselves on the phone with a gentleman who makes a good argument for paper. “We provide immediate information for the sponsor or…more...

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Clinsys To Offer Services, Tech

India’s Jubilant Buys EDC Firm

November 18, 2008

Is the contract research organization serious about owning technology? It’s not clear. A peek at the eight regular members of ACRO, the blue-chip Association of Contract Research Organizations, reveals that just two companies own industrial strength electronic data capture (EDC) solutions. The rest are choosing to partner with technology firms—or remain…more...

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Sex, Not Gender, Please

CDASH Case Report Form Push

November 14, 2008

It had been a while since we checked in with Rhonda Facile—a renewable energy source who leads one of the most cutting-edge projects in the pharmaceutical industry. She’s the Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization (CDASH) project director at the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC). CDASH is an effort to get…more...

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EDC Plays Defense

Paper Is King! Long Live Paper!

October 14, 2008

Anyone who attends a certain number of pharmaceutical industry conferences runs the risk of slipping into autopilot mode. One may hear an unrelenting chorus of the same phrases: process change and talk to the agency early and it’s important to communicate  and involve all members of your team…. Those phrases can…more...

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IT Help For Sites

TechTeam Gears Up

September 12, 2008

Say you spent a lot of money on the latest and greatest electronic data capture (EDC) solution, and the software purveyors came out and set it up and put your staff through training for a day or two, and then ... shook your hand and disappeared. Now what? What to do…more...

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Data Accelerator

Phase Forward Touts Akamai

August 18, 2008

As one of the more established companies providing electronic data capture (EDC), Phase Forward has only a handful of competitors of similar size and an impressive list of major customers. Just recently, Lilly announced it would be extending its use of Phase Forward’s InForm software. But it can be hard for…more...

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Tech, Service CRO

Paperless Push At Target Health

August 07, 2008

Jules Mitchel might be a good source to consult if you doubt the continents of services and technology are tectonically colliding. With his wife, Joyce, Mitchel runs Target Health, a small New York contract research organization (CRO) that has always been keenly interested in building its own technology—both for the sake…more...

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Image Of Efficiency

AG Mednet: Pictures, Moved

July 16, 2008

Is the industry ready to handle digital images by the gigabyte, linking them to other clinical trial data as a matter of routine? Bio-Imaging must have considered that question when buying Phoenix Data Systems for $24 million earlier this year, as did Parexel International when luring image czar George Mills from…more...

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Monday News

Quanticate Launched in the U.S.

June 30, 2008

Aris Global, a provider of safety and regulatory solutions, announced the general release of agXchange IRT 6.0, a web-based solution for handling adverse event information in different formats. IRT stands for inbound receipt and triage. “Aris Global is committed to the extended electronic exchange gateway as the way organizations can take…more...

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July 31, 2010

Reorg, New CEO

etrials: Technology Will Be Key

A conversation with Denis Connaghan of etrials, who recently became the new CEO of etrials.

Magic Pen

Kayentis: Back to The Future

From France, a hybrid system that uses special paper and a scanner-pen to gather clinical data.

Clinsys To Offer Services, Tech

India’s Jubilant Buys EDC Firm

The thinking behind Uttar Pradesh-based Jubilant Organosys’s purchase of the EDC solution from TrialStat.

Sex, Not Gender, Please

CDASH Case Report Form Push

The latest data standard from CDISC could help sites—and the industry—collect data. No more general comments.

EDC Plays Defense

Paper Is King! Long Live Paper!

The 2008 Society for Clinical Data Management meeting explored the lingering appeal of a certain form of dried tree extracts.

IT Help For Sites

TechTeam Gears Up

With a new strategy, publicly traded TechTeam Global begins angling for more clients that need computer support for clinical trials.


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