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December 3, 2008

What Would Dennis Do?

7 Questions: Parexel-ClinPhone Deal

The ramifications of a deal that may never come to pass.

GSK's Checklist for PRO

Patients, In Their Own Words

Highlights from a recent Center for Business Intelligence conference on patient reported outcomes.

Appeal In Biotech, CRO Sectors

A Challenger: The ClinPhone CTMS

Some customers invest in a clinical trial management system for better visibility into a trial. Others like owning their data for future projects.

Four Cases Done, One Left

DataTrak Wins EDC Patent Case

In the latest installment of patent lawsuits roiling the electronic data capture industry, it’s not clear if the tussle is winding to a close. 

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What Would Dennis Do?

7 Questions: Parexel-ClinPhone Deal

February 20, 2008

By Mark Uehling

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…

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GSK's Checklist for PRO

Patients, In Their Own Words

December 11, 2007

By Mark Uehling

The most notable nugget from the Center for Business Intelligence’s (CBI) Arlington, Virginia meeting on patient-reported outcome (PRO) research late last month was not so much from the podium, though there was plenty of excellent material there. Some of the…

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Appeal In Biotech, CRO Sectors

A Challenger: The ClinPhone CTMS

August 13, 2007

By Mark Uehling

The clinical trial management system (CTMS) is a software Cinderella in the world of research. By dint of its modesty and centrality to the smooth operation of a trial, the CTMS should be a full-fledged member of the family of…

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Four Cases Done, One Left

DataTrak Wins EDC Patent Case

August 02, 2007

By Mark Uehling

After 18 months of jostling and three victories, Datasci lost a patent lawsuit against DataTrak, a Cleveland, Ohio electronic data capture (EDC) company. “Under the terms of the settlement agreement, no payment is required and Datasci has agreed to dismiss…

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Unified Interface By Next Year

ClinPhone’s ‘Compact,’ Adaptive Push

June 13, 2007

By Mark Uehling

On the eve of the Drug Information Association (DIA) meeting next week, ClinPhone announced ClinPhone Compact. It’s a web-based tool, using the telephone and the internet, to manage patient randomization and drug supplies. To use the jargon, Compact is both…

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EDC As A Weapon

Kendle Chooses ClinPhone

May 21, 2007

By SuzR

Contract research organization (CRO) Kendle International (Nasdaq: KNDL) has chosen ClinPhone as its electronic data capture (EDC) vendor, and that comes as something of a surprise. Not because of ClinPhone, which is ramping up efforts to play in the most…

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Marketing Coup

CDISC Certifies ClinPhone & XClinical

April 30, 2007

By Mark Uehling

The honor system didn’t work, it seems. Last week, the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Organization (CDISC) officially certified two vendors (as far as we can tell) as compliant with the operational data model (ODM). ClinPhone and XClinical are both European…