Automating eDiary Quality
Arrowhead, Bayer Win SCDM Award
How Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare double-checked 2,698 forms for a global trial using ediaries in 19 languages.
At its annual customer conference last week in its home town of Boston, PHT reviewed the last few years of growth in the electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) niche. Business has been good. The company says it is annually shipping 40,000-50,000 devices all over the world. Perhaps a third of all clinical trials, the company says, have a paper or electronic diary component. Now that electronic case report forms are standard, many sponsors are turning toward adopting electronic diaries. Recording subjective patient experiences on paper while gathering reams of other data electronically remains a common approach. But even slow-to-change sponsor firms are glimpsing the inherent absurdity and regulatory peril in such practices. But PHT also had a bit of actual news. The firm is working on adapting its ePRO software to run on devices other than the existing Palm and Microsoft mobile platforms, both of which are being warehoused by large, indifferent…more...
With the basic features and functions in place, many providers of clinical trial software are busy refining the ways that users get information in and out. Reports have been newly modernized…more...
Major electronic diary providers all built their platforms around a Windows or Palm-based device that plugs into an electrical outlet. But that dependence on hardware is a bit cloudy going forward,…more...
Safety. Efficacy. Are those two cardinal notions of clinical development enough? Jean Paty has a third. He believes it is as central as safety and efficacy. Paty is co-founder and senior…more...
After doing 20 trials together, Quintiles and ediary supplier invivodata announced a closer partnership. For the large contract research organization, the relationship likely brings additional scientific firepower to a research niche newly legitimized by a final FDA guidance document in patient reported outcomes (PRO). For the Pittsburgh ediary supplier, meanwhile, the relationship will bring more projects and…more...
Hey! Can you reset my password? Now? Inside or outside the clinical trial world, that is one of the most mundane and routine requests made to software help desks. Ediary firm PHT says the ongoing hassle has now been simplified in its StudyWorks system. The system has now been updated to allow users to administer their own…more...
CRF has noticed a funny thing about patients filling out clinical trial diaries in India and eastern Europe. The data are immaculate. The patients are highly compliant, to the tune of doing 95-98 percent of what they’re supposed to. Rachael King, the new CEO at CRF, isn’t sure what cultural factors explain that performance. “It’s very hard…more...
Say you need someone to do something for you in Singapore. It turns out it’s rude to leave someone a few voice mail messages. Even several email requests are a bit of a no-no. Instead, communication via so-called “text” or short messaging systems (SMS) is the norm and the Emily-Post approved technique. That works for Pfizer. The…more...
How Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare double-checked 2,698 forms for a global trial using ediaries in 19 languages.
The Pittsburgh diary company invivodata has been dredging up facts about patient-reported outcomes.
With a sleek computer for sites, the Pittsburgh firm offers a larger canvas for electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO).
Two top firms, each specializing in different approaches to gathering patient experiences, will partner to help sponsors find the right technology.
At a user meeting later this month, invivodata will unveil a new device from a company other than Palm.
Using a tablet PC and the Apple phone, assiTek says larger screens can be helpful to science and sites.
The patient-reported outcome company moves its software to a Samsung device with a new form factor and operating system.
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