May 17, 2012
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Clinical News & Analysis


May 16 | News Brief | The Leicester Diabetes Centre has chosen InferMed’s MACRO EDC solution to provide electronic data capture for their clinical trials portfolio.    more
May 15 | eCliniqua | Almost a year ago, Pfizer started recruiting for a different kind of clinical trial: the first ever conducted under a Participatory Patient-Centered (PPC) model. Last month, the team’s efforts—still very much ongoing—were rewarded with a Bio-IT World Best Practices Award in the Clinical and Health IT category.    more
May 7 | News Brief | National Jewish Health is seeking to refine and improve lung-cancer screening by combining a blood test with CT imaging to detect disease earlier and more effectively. The trial combines a CT chest scan and the EarlyCDT-Lung blood test to screen for cancer.   more
May 4 | eCliniqua | Quanticate is expanding its contract research capabilities for clinical trials in India with the announcement of a new office in Bangalore. The new office will take further advantage of growing clinical trials opportunities in India.    more
May 2 | News Brief | CDISC has released the first iteration of a Protocol Representation “Toolkit” for clinical research. The purpose is to make it easy for authors of the research plan or protocol to reap the benefits of the Protocol Representation Model (PRM), which has been developed over the past decade by global clinical research experts from academia, industry and government.   more
Apr 24 | eCliniqua | PHT Corporation has announced the newest version of StudyWorks, its online clinical trial management system. The new release includes dashboards that display secure and configurable, quick-read highlights of the most relevant information for a given role and enhanced performance and scalability for global mega trials.    more
Apr 24 | News Brief | BioClinica is partnering with Paragon Solutions, an advisory consulting and systems integration firm that specializes in enterprise information management. BioClinica customers will utilize Paragon's resources and expertise to support large-scale integration of BioClinica's eClinical solutions across a variety of technology partnerships and client implementations.   more

Apr 23 | eCliniqua | Guest Commentary | The untimely passing of Steve Jobs led to extensive media coverage and a best-selling biography examining his life and legacy. Jobs was both a passionate visionary and an eccentric renegade, and his many successes rose from a set of principles and practices that changed how we develop, use, and think about technology. The Jobs legacy pertains equally to consumer devices and business applications such as eClinical systems, so let’s pause and consider “What would Steve say about eClinical?" 

 

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Apr 16 | eCliniqua | For industry leader Merck, country-specific and site-level performance metrics have been among the early wins from the DecisionView Enrollment Benchmarks data set, says Brendan O’Neill, Merck’s director and head of global trial optimization. The pharmaceutical giant last June joined peers GlaxoSmithKline and Roche in working with DecisionView to turn their combined operational patient enrollment data into a cross-industry set of clinical trial enrollment benchmarks.    more
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This podcast brings together two industry leaders to focus on the issues that divide sponsors and sites. On the one hand sites and sponsors unite in advancing better health care through a common passion for developing better drugs. Yet some issues divide them and bridges need to be built or mended to advance the highest levels of cooperation, coordination and success in clinical trials. Listen as the key issues are debated from the site and the sponsor side and new methods and technology are advanced that offer near-term and lasting solutions.

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 2011 CRO Quality Benchmarking Report 
 

 Clinical Development Staff Quality & Resourcing Models 

 Good Clinical Practices: Guide to Compliance (PDF)   

 Good Clinical Practices: Guide to Compliance (Hardcopy)
 
 
 The Voice of the Site Coordinator
 

The State of the EDC and ePRO Market
 

 The State of the Phase I Market 

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