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September 7, 2008
Shark Repellent
Empirica From Phase Forward
A new name for the safety products from Phase Forward, plus insights into faster responses to safety crises.
EDC & Imaging Combination
Bio-Imaging, PDS Seek More Size
Why Bio-Imaging bought a top electronic data capture company.
Fewer Features & Faster Setup
EDC, CTMS for Biotechs From ACS
ACS talks about a new product. The company is betting the combination of EDC and CTMS will appeal to biotech firms and contract research organizations.
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...
Every few months, clinical trial suite Phase Forward announces that basically every key number—earnings, revenues, customer counts, the whole enchilada—has risen 20 percent or so. The company’s most recent conference call, offering quarterly and annual financial data, was no exception. ClinPage ran a new brief on a few of the… more...
I have been involved with EDC (electronic data capture) for more than two decades now. During this time, I have been exposed to a variety of systems. On occasion, I get asked what makes a good EDC system. The person asking the question is usually looking for a short list… more...
There has never been a time in the pharmaceutical industry when the coding of adverse events was more pivotal. The industry is not quite to the point of knowing that three identical events will trigger a product withdrawal. But it’s close. In that context, Phase Forward last week updated its… more...
The acquisition of Vermont’s Green Mountain Logic by Phase Forward, for $5.3 million, is a surprising and fascinating development this week. Lab Pas CT, the flagship product at Green Mountain, is designed to manage samples and work flows in Phase I. The Lab Pas software is designed to be used… more...
“It’s a ride, ride, ride, and there ain’t much cover.” That Bruce Springsteen lyric came to mind as we were listening to the etrials call with financial analysts last week. On the face of it, it should have been a fine quarter, with gross revenues up 25 percent in the… more...
On the eve of the Drug Information Association (DIA) meeting next week, ClinPhone announced ClinPhone Compact. It’s a web-based tool, using the telephone and the internet, to manage patient randomization and drug supplies. To use the jargon, Compact is both an interactive voice response (IVR) and interactive web response (IWR)… more...
Contract research organization (CRO) Kendle International (Nasdaq: KNDL) has chosen ClinPhone as its electronic data capture (EDC) vendor, and that comes as something of a surprise. Not because of ClinPhone, which is ramping up efforts to play in the most bruising tier of the EDC arena. What’s stunning is the… more...
