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...

For the contract research organization (CRO) serving multiple clients, it can be tough to stay abreast of multiple projects all over the world. In many ways, the technology advances of the past few years have made this more onerous, not less. The sheer number of systems with vital data continues to grow. Veeda Oncology is hoping to…more...

We were looking around for how many USB, or “thumb” drives are sold every year. Alas, we could locate no statistics. We canUSB…more...

There is scarcely a more tired phrase than “it’s not rocket science.” But what if electronic data capture were conceived as something that had to be as robust as the software to protect astronauts or Navy pilots? That seems to be the approach of Prelude Dynamics, a Texas startup with more than a dozen employees and active…more...