IT Help For Sites
September 12, 2008
Say you spent a lot of money on the latest and greatest electronic data capture (EDC) solution, and the software purveyors came out and set it up and put your staff through training for a day or two, and then ... shook your hand and disappeared.
Now what? What to do about help-desk services? What if several…more...
CRO Seeks Tech
August 04, 2008
Trio Clinical Research Management, a rare contract research organization (CRO)-staffing company hybrid, was going great guns. The company had a 95 percent client retention rate. It had no debt. Both sides of the business were booming. And owners Betsy Brown and Faye Woolf, friends since the 1980s, were happy as clams.
Despite being named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s…more...
Fewer Features & Faster Setup
March 26, 2008
It had been a while. Years, actually. But Bruce Schatzman, president and CEO of Advanced Clinical Software (ACS) seems to be doing even better than we expected. He started the firm back in 1993. In our last conversation, published here a long time ago, he wasn’t too worried about Oracle. That proved correct.
ACS never needed money…more...
What Would Dennis Do?
February 20, 2008
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 about how services and technologies should be combined in clinical trials. A combination of Parexel and ClinPhone…more...
Expert View
How To Think About EDC
Bayer’s Rob Musterer discusses a little-appreciated aspect of any electronic data capture system.
Less Dictionary-Based Pain
Updated Phase Coding Tool
Updating Central Coding for InForm, Phase Forward tries to simplify the management of vital dictionaries like WHO Drug and MedDRA.
Profile: ProTrials
Seasoned Staff, Tough Projects
The San Francisco firm discusses the difficulty of some of its projects and why it likes more experienced employees.
A Phase IV Push?
INC Research, Medidata Alliance
A leading CRO and trial technology vendor discuss how they work and communicate.
Productivity Enhancement
Nextrials Has Clinical Take On iPhone
Hardly a gimmick, Nextrials’ use of the Apple iPhone could make overworked site staff and monitors like their jobs a bit more.
Savings For MS Registry
Synergies Link Biobanks, EDC
Technology will make new types of clinical collaboration more affordable, says DSG’s Tony Varano.
EDC+ CDMS + CTMS
Clinipace Tools For Data, Projects
With appeal for academia and federally sponsored trials, the North Carolina firm has a solution that combines tools for collecting data and managing trials.
