At its annual customer conference last week in its home town of Boston, PHT reviewed the last few years of growth in the electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) niche. Business has been good. The company says it is annually shipping 40,000-50,000 devices all over the world. Perhaps a third of all clinical trials, the company says, have a…more...

Since time immemorial, sponsor firms have chosen software. Then it gets introduced, so to speak, to the throats of research sites. Sometimes principal investigators and clinical research associates (CRAs) like the technologies they are obliged to use. Sometimes they just use them. So it is remarkable that Greenphire has industry-savvy research sites knocking on its door with…more...

Theorem Clinical Research (once known as Omnicare) appointed Adam Serody as VP of global business development. Serody previously worked at PharmaNet and Paragon Biomedical, according to a news release. Parexel will augment its commercialization services group. "Biopharmaceutical companies need to address commercialization goals as early as possible to develop products and acquire the right data to receive…more...

Patient diary firm CRF has shepherded some of its technology through the FDA registration process for medical devices. In a news release, the firm says it is the first among peers to do so: "TrialMax is categorized as a Class 1 MDDS under regulation 21 CFR 880.6310. And because it uses alarms to remind subjects when to…more...

"Contagion" is one of the top films in America just now. It has been bested only by two movies at the box office—one about cartoon lions and another about a maid and her boss. "Contagion" is scary. It's a phlegm-filled tale about an Asian virus that infects the globe in a few days. School's cancelled, millions die.…more...

Easy, convenient SMS messaging has generally been underutilized by the research sector of the pharmaceutical industry, with a quasi-obscure British firm as one of the rare companies that had a vision of what was possible. But ePharmaSolutions is experienced in research-oriented texting, too. It just announced a new version of its software. “Our integrations with leading clinical…more...

With the basic features and functions in place, many providers of clinical trial software are busy refining the ways that users get information in and out. Reports have been newly modernized at patient diary firm PHT, based in Boston, where Sheila Rocchio is VP of marketing. She made it clear that the company isn’t remaining complacent about…more...