If .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)‘s dreams come true, she will soon have Australia’s (and New Zealand’s) clinical trials industry chatting online. Then, in a few years, the entire industry. The former clinical research assistant (CRA) recently launched AccessCR: Clinical Research Information and Resources At Your Fingertips. It’s a portal designed to encourage discussion among people working in clinical trials in Australia. It’s also an information resource for members of the public interested in clinical trials. In some ways, it’s an Aussie competitor to Centerwatch, and in others it’s a unique forum. In the future, she plans to enable sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) to use the portal for recruiting patients. Oh, and Bowden would also like it to handle web-based intra-office communications for specific CROs and sponsors via private forums— or what she calls “the outsourcing of knowledge management.” Clinical Myspace Bowden, a resident of Sydney and an eight-year-veteran of the…more...