In a recent news brief about Omnicomm Systems, we noted that the electronic data capture company’s technology has been integrated with the with the NCI’s Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB) cancer Data Standards Repository (caDSR).  In checking in with Stephen Johnson, Omnicomm’s senior VP of business development, it’s clear the company aims to lift itself into a higher tier of the industry. Omnicomm has recently hired away employees with marketing and technology experience from four prominent rivals: DataTrak, Datalabs, Phase Forward and Oracle Clinical. That officially constitutes a hiring “spree,” we think. Johnson himself came from the sales side of Oracle Clinical. “I was the one on the east coast for the last 7 years managing that group,” he says. Oracle Refugee Johnson joined Omnicomm after being impressed by the software. “I was just blown away at the functionality,” Johnson says. The company builds studies with a drag and drop wizard, and…more...