Recently, I've had the opportunity to visit our local vacational/technical school several times. When I was a kid, the voc tech school was only for dropouts, burnouts, and pregnant girls, with the occasional budding mechanic thrown in for good measure. This couldn't be further from the case now...
Atrium Medical wanted to scale operations to support rapid growth in new product development requiring clinical trials and improve the speed, cost-effectiveness and quality of clinical trial operations. The challenge was to design a more integrated and transparent approach to creating and managing clinical trials and identify opportunities to improve...
New version 2 provides enhanced graphing, charting, and note capabilities, as well as synchronization and stability improvements. HealthEngage Asthma is FireLogic's Asthma Management Software System. It allows asthma sufferers or investigators to collect, store, and chart peak flow readings, medications, personal diary, and other health information. The software can be...
Worldwide Clinical Trials Worldwide provides clinical research and drug trial services for companies around the globe. Approached by Microsoft, Worldwide participated in an Infrastructure & Software Optimization assessment, which analyzed the firm's Infrastructure Optimization maturity as well as its Software Asset Management SAM maturity. As a result, Worldwide received an...
Premier Research Group Limited wanted to leverage technology to be more responsive to clients, ultimately helping clients improve their clinical trials and increasing client satisfaction and consolidate numerous geographically-dispersed clinical systems resulting from mergers and acquisitions to operate more efficiently worldwide. The challenge was to reduce operations and maintenance costs...
This medical application is the only dedicated resource on the iPhone that offers a way to search through every clinical trial registered with the U.S. government. The following features are included in Clinical Trials A full menu of advanced search options, allowing for searches by clinical trial type (interventional, observational...
Graphics are a powerful way to display clinical trial data. By their very nature, clinical trials generate a large amount of information, and a concise visual presentation of the results is essential. Information about the patient population, drug dosages, clinical responses, and adverse events must be clear. Clinical laboratory results...
The way the biopharmaceutical industry conducts clinical trials is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Coupled with this much needed evolution are new challenges specific to the increasing role that information technology will play to enable the new clinical development landscape. Of the many challenges facing the biopharmaceutical industry today, the critical...
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Finding ways to reduce the cost of clinical trials is on the agenda of every pharmaceutical company striving to remain profitable. Many are turning to clinical performance management software to manage and optimize their clinical trial activities. This platform unites critical data in one place. It lets one set goals...
Thomson CenterWatch is dedicated to providing patients and their advocates with a variety of information services and educational materials on clinical research. The Clinical Trials Listing Service�??�?�¢�?�¢??�??�?�¢ Database includes listings of thousands of industry-sponsored clinical trials that are actively recruiting patients in the U.S. and internationally. Key Features Dynamic database...
Keep up with the latest in scientific clinical trial activity and drug development using market intelligence and knowledge resources from CenterWatch. Users will be able to keep up with the latest in scientific clinical trial activity and drug development using market intelligence and knowledge resources from CenterWatch, the leading...
A full-featured eTrial Master File solution from EMC enables life sciences organizations to accelerate, streamline, and simplify clinical trials management. By providing business process services, automated workflow, secured collaboration, and streamlined publishing, the solution enables to increase clinical trial yield and accelerate commercialization - while meeting regulatory requirements. The attendee...
Because I'm not really all that busy sarcasm drips here, it's fallen to me to figure out what is happening to our MCAS scores. For those of you outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MCAS is our battery of standardized tests in English, Math, science, history (the list goes...
Opera Srl is a Contract Research Organization CRO founded in Genoa in 1995. Opera Srl wanted to provide immediate, centralized access to anonymous documents and data on patients in clinical trials and improve performance in terms of the quality of data collected and time to data lock. The challenge was...
It takes a period of time for LEO Pharma to get access to the data with paper forms. The forms have to be picked up and shipped back to the company; and the data needs to be keyed into the clinical data management system. LEO Pharma designs and manages its...
Thomson CenterWatch Clinical Trial Listingspowered by Skyscape Publisher: Thomson CenterWatch Thomson CenterWatch is dedicated to providing patients and their advocates with a variety of information services and educational materials on clinical research. The Clinical Trials Listing Service Database includes listings of thousands of industry-sponsored clinical trials that are actively recruiting...
In an effort to improve patient care, increase research efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance, Atlantic Health is transforming its paper-based clinical and drug trial process into a digital one. A process that used to constitute reams of paper forms scattered about administrative, physician, and finance offices will soon be facilitated...
Clinical trials are not conducted in a single location, but rather in multiple locations around the globe. As such, POI has added staff and offices in strategic locations to meet the needs of its clients by placing the researchers geographically close to the study sites - either in a physical...
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