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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.
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medidata_podcast_Sites and Sponsors: Mending Bridges over Troubled Waters  
Sites and Sponsors: Mending Bridges over Troubled Waters
Sponsored by Medidata Solutions Worldwide

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.

• Common ground in reaching agreement on a budget

• Improving the pace of agreement on budgets and contracts

• Processes for payment to sites on a timely basis

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