Were they dating? Engaged? It appears Wyeth and Medidata Solutions have been married for some time, at least from hints about “eleven months” of using electronic data capture in the news release that posted yesterday. This week’s formal announcement is a seven-year, enterprise-wide uptake of Medidata’s EDC product by Wyeth. That big pharma has been one of the few to ponder the evolution of the EDC landscape deeply, and to have well-developed and publicly stated ideas on what the technology should be able to do for the industry as a whole. (Here’s a previous ClinPage story about a Wyeth presentation at the Clinical Trials Congress.) Medidata’s co-founder, president and CEO Tarek Sherif checked in with ClinPage earlier this week. “It’s a big deal for Medidata,” says Sherif. “It’s also exciting industry-wide. Wyeth is very EDC-savvy. Wyeth is a great example of a company that is standardizing on EDC. They saw a…more...