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...

It had been a while since we checked in with Rhonda Facile—a renewable energy source who leads one of the most cutting-edge projects in the pharmaceutical industry. She’s the Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization (CDASH) project director at the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC). CDASH is an effort to get clinical trial data standardized from the…more...

Today’s news about Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers is interesting. Trillions of dollars in mortgage securities that seemed safe a year ago are radioactive. Wall Street thought the risk could be papered over with accounting gimmicks and legal jabbering. That worked for a while. But the tricky thing about risk is that it has a certain scent—an…more...

Will biotech and pharmaceutical companies demand simpler technology solutions? Will they insist that systems are as easy to snap together as Lego blocks? To explore which services and technology firms might facilitate such a shift, ClinPage decided to compile a list. All of the firms on our list are major providers of clinical trial services and technologies.…more...