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7 Questions For Core Labs

Modern Imaging Benchmarks

August 18, 2010

What are appropriate turnaround times as images pass through the different stages of a clinical trial? Is the pharmaceutical industry applying outmoded thinking? Here's the context for such questions. A few weeks back, we ran an article on benchmarks in imaging. In brief, Perceptive Informatics, a division of Parexel, had adopted some standards in consultation with a nonprofit organization called the Metrics Champions Consortium. It all seemed noncontroversial. Then Jon DeVries, general manager of the eclinical business at Merge, got in touch. He competes with Perceptive and suggested, in a gentle and polite manner, that the ClinPage editorial pencil may not have been at its sharpest when that article was written. Specifically, DeVries said, the clinical trial world can ask more of imaging core labs in 2010. His view? Digital systems to move and manage images offer such big savings in time and money that the MCC benchmarks may already be…more...

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Perceptive & MCC

For Imaging, Standard Metrics

June 24, 2010

This reporter is always disheartened when lawyers are ridiculed. Lately, we've been saddened by the news that a few law schools, just trying to help graduates find employment, have unilaterally granted…more...

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Academic Access

WorldCare Enhances System

March 10, 2009

Imaging for clinical trials is a hot area, and getting hotter. WorldCare Clinical is beefing up its image management system and tapping its access to top radiologists in the U.S. and…more...

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Consistent Adjudication

Icon Sees Cardiac Opportunity

March 02, 2009

Blame Avandia. It was that diabetes blockbuster’s black box warning late in 2007 that got Jonathan Goldman thinking.  Chief medical officer of Icon Medical Imaging, Goldman pondered whether the FDA would…more...

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New Cardio Capability

Icon Enhances Imaging Software

November 12, 2008

Icon Clinical may have just leapt in front of its competitors in cardiology trials. The imaging arm of the Dublin, Ireland-based contract research organization (CRO) just developed software for uploading and analyzing coronary angiography images, then exporting the measurements directly into a case report form that is 21 CFR Part 11-compliant. Electronic Calipers Thus far, no such…more...

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Image Of Efficiency

AG Mednet: Pictures, Moved

July 16, 2008

Is the industry ready to handle digital images by the gigabyte, linking them to other clinical trial data as a matter of routine? Bio-Imaging must have considered that question when buying Phoenix Data Systems for $24 million earlier this year, as did Parexel International when luring image czar George Mills from FDA. Now Phase Forward has stepped…more...

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EDC & Imaging Combination

Bio-Imaging, PDS Seek More Size

April 01, 2008

How big do clinical trial technology firms need to be? Is there a magic size large enough to be financially strong but small enough to provide impeccable service? Last week’s $24 million purchase of electronic data capture firm Phoenix Data Systems by Bio-Imaging is an indication of companies searching for the right size. The two firms decided…more...

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Perfect Pictures

Imaging A-Team At Perceptive

January 25, 2008

Perceptive Informatics is gearing up to go into overdrive on imaging. The technology division of Boston-area contract research organization (CRO) Parexel recently announced that it had amassed an A-list of imaging advisors, including big names from Georgetown University to Harvard Medical School. The goal: To keep its imaging-centric operations on the bleeding edge of a rapidly expanding…more...

ClinPage Exclusive

Perceptive Gets New CTO

Sina Adibi steps in as Perceptive Informatics’ new tech leader. He’s planning a major expansion.

Pharmatek, BioImagene, Media Cybernetics

News Briefs

News for Tuesday, April 17.

Bio-Optronics, AstraZeneca

News Briefs

A few news briefs for Monday April 9, 2007.

Images In Clinical Trials

Parexel Hires Mills From FDA

A new executive will help sites, sponsors use imaging effectively.

International Study

VirtualScopics In Imaging Trial

In a 30-month international trial, the firm’s technology will be used to evaluate biomarkers in arthritis.


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