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May 12, 2008
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.
What Would Dennis Do?
7 Questions: Parexel-ClinPhone Deal
The ramifications of a deal that may never come to pass.
Details For Wall Street
Phase Forward 2007 Financials
Thoughts on the company’s recent conference call with financial analysts.
Expert View
How To Think About EDC
Bayer’s Rob Musterer discusses a little-appreciated aspect of any electronic data capture system.
At the end of the day, is electronic data capture (EDC) a technology? Or a service? It’s getting harder to tell. At Phase Forward, Mike Davies says the EDC company reassessed its offerings to increase their appeal to CROs. As director of sales and global CRO partnerships, Davies admits the… more...
The clinical trial technology landscape is consolidating, with firms buying each other or limping along. In that context, last month’s rebranding of the safety software of Phase Forward is interesting. To quote the press release: “Phase Forward is unifying its safety products under a new product family name—Empirica—for its suite… more...
How big do clinical trial technology firms need to be? Is there a magic size large enough to be financially strong but small enough to provide impeccable service? Last week’s $24 million purchase of electronic data capture firm Phoenix Data Systems by Bio-Imaging is an indication of companies searching for… more...
It had been a while. Years, actually. But Bruce Schatzman, president and CEO of Advanced Clinical Software (ACS) seems to be doing even better than we expected. He started the firm back in 1993. In our last conversation, published here a long time ago, he wasn’t too worried about Oracle.… more...
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...
