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Clinical Research
Off-shoring: A Country Attractiveness Index for Clinical Trials

By Mark P. Mathieu
For many years, pharmaceutical companies have been off-shoring manufacturing operations to lower-cost countries. Healthy margins and strong risk aversion have afforded pharmaceutical companies the luxury of staying close to home, for all but manufacturing activities. As financial pressures increase, pharmaceutical executives are finding that going offshore is not only less risky than it once was, but also too attractive to ignore.  Read More



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DIA 2010 – Innovation, Issues-Driven, Upbeat

Jul 19 | eCliniqua | The 46th Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association (DIA) held last month in Washington, D.C. sported a decidedly optimistic tone. A whole host of sessions and exhibits highlighted strategic partnerships among multiple stakeholders, the growing role of payers and comparative effectiveness research, electronic health records, continued globalization, and of course, the latest technological solutions.

DIA Bits & Pieces

Jun 15 | Announcements and products from the Drug Information Association meeting in Washington, D.C., June 13-17.

A Social Approach to Patient Recruitment

Jun 7 | eCliniqua | Better use of Web 2.0 sites like Twitter, Facebook and PatientsLikeMe could be a boon for enrollment.

Dana-Farber Chooses Clinical Research Management System

May 20 | News Brief | Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center has chosen OnCore as their integrated clinical research management system.

Quanticate Selects Oracle Argus Safety for Pharmacovigilance Database

May 17 | eCliniqua | Quanticate has selected Oracle Argus Safety as its safety database to offer comprehensive global adverse event management and reporting for its customers. 

Covance Launches Translational Services

May 13 | News Brief | Covance has created a Discovery & Translational Services group, which will integrate its discovery services, antibody products and immunology services.

Reforms to Help Australia Maintain its Share of Global Trials

Apr 19 | eCliniqua | Australia is in the process of reforming itself to better accommodate the clinical trials industry amidst competition from emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Pen-Based Site Visit Reporting Solutions

Feb 10 | Expert Commentary | The preferred workflow of most health care professionals continues to be pen-based, not keyboard-based. Several technologies have been developed recently that address this issue of EDC in a clinician-friendly manner with electronic pen-on-paper systems, including the Digital Pen and Tablet PC.

Study Finds ‘Operational Gap’ in Clinical Trial Portfolio Management

Feb 3 | eCliniqua | For most biopharmaceutical companies, the pressure to improve clinical trial portfolio management efficiency has arrived sooner than their operational readiness to meet the challenge. Corporate intolerance for budget variances above 5% of target is now commonplace. But widespread absence of project-level operational metrics has made it all but impossible to drive planned-to-actual spending into alignment.

Moonbay Sells Document Management Services Via Cloud Computing

Oct 20 | Moonbay Technology entered the field of regulatory document management and electronic submissions in June with an option affordable even to small biotechnology firms heretofore reliant primarily on homegrown, error-prone systems.

White Papers & Special Reports

oracle20723
The Role of Analytics in Transforming Healthcare
Sponsored by Oracle

Sharing many of the data challenges and opportunities faced by Healthcare, the Life Sciences industry remains focused on delivering new, innovative therapies and solutions to patients in a cost effective, timely and safe way. With spiraling R&D costs, new methods such as adaptive trials, and never ending need for deep pharmacovigilance, the Life Sciences companies that effectively use analytics to explore, monitor and optimize their business will rapidly become the new leaders.

Oracle’s strategy—built upon Enterprise Health Analytics and Health Data Warehouse Foundation—provides a powerful, practical, and extensible approach to delivering the IT analytics infrastructure required to confront the worldwide healthcare challenge.



pegasystems
BPM-Based Case Management Approach to Optimizing Clinical Trial Efficiency
Sponsored by Pegasystems

Business Process Management (BPM) software offers liberation in the planning and management of clinical trials today. SmartBPM provides the components for automating critical clinical trial processes ranging from protocol development and patient enrollment to site management and investigator payments. Advantages are:

  • Potentially stunning return on investment at multiple levels.
  • A 500%, or better, increase in application development time by directly executing business requirements
  • Improved customer retention
  • A 50% possible reduction in training time

Discovered is opportunity to enhance relationships with investigators, subjects, and regulators while bringing momentum to a technology-impaired study startup phase. Learn more about SmartBPM in this complimentary white paper.



Cmed paper
Next-gen Cloud-based eClinical
Sponsored by Cmed Technology

New technologies are available to leverage Cloud Computing in  managing clinical trial data. This paper discusses a next generation eClinical
platform that:

  • Speeds trial set up
  • Accommodates changes with zero downtime
  • Integrates effectively with other clinical trial technology systems

It is offered with either software-as-a-service (SaaS), or turnkey infrastructure options in which the user organization operates their own cloud using their IT teams, within their data centers. Read this paper to learn and decide how best to leverage cloud computing’s many strengths for your organization’s  particular needs.



Life Science Webcasts & Podcasts

Medidata Solutions

Evaluating a Risk-based Approach to Good Clinical Practice 

medidata5_podcastThe verification of source documents by study monitors at investigational sites is considered a good clinical practice by regulatory authorities overseeing clinical research, and is extremely important to ensuring data quality in clinical trials. Today’s challenging environment is prompting study teams to explore the use of risk-based approaches to monitoring that do not compromise data quality, but allow limited resources to be directed more effectively to where they’re most needed and to the most critical review activities.

In this podcast, industry experts and executives from Medidata will address questions such as:

  • Why are regulatory agencies and industry open to evaluating the new approaches in site monitoring and source document verification (SDV), and what attitudes and reactions towards less than 100% SDV?
  • What factors do research sponsors need to consider in adopting risk-based site monitoring?


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