Consistent Adjudication
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By design, electronic data capture (EDC) systems are utilitarian. Clinical data managers need a secure, electronic way to collect and change medical information. As such, EDC systems are about as scientific as a box of ballpoint pens. But that could be poised to change with the unheralded purchase of a small clinical trial technology firm in France. At the end of 2010, Merge Healthcare of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, bought Kika Medical of Paris for a net price of $2.03 million in Merge stock, once reserves for potential future litigation and other withheld shares are tallied up. Jon DeVries, general manager of the eclinical division at Merge, notes that Kika's EDC package includes the ability to adjudicate clinical endpoints. Although several technology firms and contract research organizations (CRO) can provide endpoint adjudication services, DeVries says that Kika's solution is uniquely embedded in an EDC package and comprehensive—wrapping up the process in an end-to-end…more...
