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Standard SOP Set

New Global CRO Network

November 30, 2009

The conventional wisdom is that a contract research organization (CRO) can't grow significantly it if it only works in the U.S. A global presence is obligatory for companies of a certain size. But not every CRO can afford to acquire other firms, especially in this economy. Which is why some diminutive, geographically disparate CROs are banding together.…more...

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Trianz Buys Afferenz

Consultants Buy Eclinical Firm

November 18, 2009

One of the more obscure—and intriguing—eclinical suites has just been sold by an Indian firm, Megasoft, to a U.S. computer consultancy. Trianz bought Afferenz, where Venkatesan Thangaraj has been president and one of the key strategists for some time. He's an ebullient, unusually cheerful executive. Thangaraj notes that in a less than glorious economy, his sales have…more...

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Winner: BioClinica

Best DIA Exhibitors

June 26, 2009

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie care about drug development? They suddenly hunger to learn more about sponsor-CRO partnerships, PDUFA and Critical Path, and thus they showed up at the Drug Information Association's (DIA) 45th annual meeting to drink it all in? They are curious about science in addition to being gorgeous, rich and fertile? Wait—those were actually…more...

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Can Galaxies Merge?

PhRMA Push for EHRs

June 09, 2009

Most ClinPage readers have been to a conference where someone stands up and says, "Back in 1985, my company was doing some interesting things with computer punch cards. It was very close to what electronic data capture (EDC) became. We decided to unplug our system after a few years, but it worked well—better, in some ways, than…more...

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EDC, CTMS, IVR

i3Cube: Trial Swiss Army Knife

February 17, 2009

“Give us the tools and we will finish the job,” Winston Churchill wrote to a friend. The year: 1941. World War II was just getting started. In 2009, thousands of web-based programs are sweeping over the entertainment, financial, and publishing industries. Do today’s clinical trial professionals have the tools to finish the job? Do they like the…more...

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'We'll Be #1'

Oracle Eyes Resurgence

January 30, 2009

Whatever happened to Oracle Clinical, the database firm’s flagship application for clinical data management? It’s still there. As we noted a few days ago on this site, some Oracle customers in the sponsor and contract research organization (CRO) community are starting to acknowledge their usage of the company’s technology. But the company doesn’t make as much noise…more...

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Dictionary Quandary

5 Definitions of “Eclinical”

January 06, 2009

Honestly? The word has tormented us. We are talking about “eclinical.” The once-technical term is now routinely being referenced on calls with Wall Street analysts. Google has zillions of links to it. We finally decided to wrestle with it in our own way. To facilitate a serious journalistic contemplation of “eclinical,” we purchased an 80 oz. (5…more...

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Interoperable Platform

Medidata’s Eclinical Vision

December 19, 2008

Is the word “eclinical” meaningless jargon? A good way for people to pay lip service to the future without actually building it? The people at Medidata Solutions have been trying to lend some definitional and operational clarity to what “eclinical” means. Two months ago, they announced Developer Central, a set of standards to facilitate the connection of…more...

March 12, 2010

Interoperable Platform

Medidata’s Eclinical Vision

Glen de Vries of Medidata discusses the company’s effort to create an ecosystem for clinical trial software.

CEO Interview

Clinical Integration from etrials

Chuck Piccirillo discusses the company’s strengths and current direction.

19 Firms, 9 Categories

Tout L’eclinical Suites

The debut of our list of suites—integrated technology firms or services firms providing at least three major types of research systems.

IVR Firm Sold For 15X Revenues

Clarix Bought by Phase Forward

A top EDC firm pays generously for a provider of randomization and drug supply management.

Standards Champions

Forward-Looking Systems At NCI

The National Cancer Institute’s Ken Buetow talks about standards and systems in the caBIG project.

ClinPhone CEO

Kent: Consolidation On Horizon

Standards, interactive voice response, EDC, trial management systems, adaptive designs—CEO Steve Kent discusses the tools in the ClinPhone arsenal.


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