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- Reduced Cost and Time-to-Market for a Leading Pharmaceutical Company With Automation of Clinical Trial Process
- A leading pharmaceutical company conducts over 50 sets of clinical trials a year, each trial costing anywhere between USD 350 Million and USD 600 Million. They approached MindTree to build a system that could automate many intricate aspects of the clinical trial process. MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise in the...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Pharmaceutical Company, Clinical Trial, Automation, Healthcare
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Know Your AREA!: Creating Professional SAS Graphics in Clinical Safety Data by Using the AREAS Option in PROC GPLOT
- In monitoring safety data in clinical trials, visual displays of individual patient data over time (i.e. vitals and lab data) are indispensable. This paper will introduce examples of these displays for a Data Safety Monitoring Committee, using the GPLOT procedure in SAS/GRAPH. Specifically, the AREAS option in GPLOT will be...
- Tags: Monitoring, Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Graphics
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Automatically Incorporating Repeated Changes in SAS Programming Codes in Clinical Trial Reporting
- Changing SAS code is a frequent process in programming and reporting activities. When dealing with a large number of reports that need changes, copying and pasting code or manual editing of the code is not a good practice since the likelihood of making mistakes increases exponentially. Automation of the changes...
- Tags: Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Programming
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Pharmaceutical Contract Researcher Develops Quality Electronic Data Collection for Clinical Trials
- Wanting to improve customer service and productivity in its Pharmaceutical Services division, Solutia resolved to modernize its patient data gathering process while preserving traditional workflow at the clinical trial site. Solutia worked with Quilogy, a Microsoft Certified Partner, to develop a solution that uses Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 to collect...
- Tags: Clinical Trial, Microsoft Corp., Solutia, Data, Healthcare
- Case studies 2005-11-26
- Beyond Trial Registration: A Global Trial Bank for Clinical Trial Reporting
- The reporting of clinical trial results as both prose and computable data is arguably a natural progression in the development of electronic publishing. Coupled with emerging international policies on clinical trial registration, Global Trial Bank GTB offers the most advanced computable repository of trial protocol and results information to promote...
- Tags: Bank, Clinical Trial, Healthcare
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Integrated Clinical Data With Oracle Pharmaceutical Applications
- Even the largest pharmaceutical companies with extensive IT resources have struggled to produce an integrated eClinical solution. Forrester Research, in an article entitled 'Clinical Trials' EDC Endgame' states: "the market's desire for simplified integration and improved collaboration across the clinical trial process is driving EDC vendors to develop broader eClinical...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Pharmaceutical Company, Clinical Trial, Data Management, Healthcare
- White papers 2005-02-01
- US clinical trial management systems market to grow at 13% a year
- The US clinical trial management systems CTMS market is poised for steady growth through 2008, achieving a five-year compound annual growth rate CAGR of nearly 13%, a new research study from Life Science Insights reveals. Analysts expect the market for CTMS software licenses to grow during the same forecast period,...
- Tags: clinical trial, clinical trial management system
- Blog posts 2004-10-27
- A Collaborative Clinical Trial Protocol Writing System
- Increasing complexity in medicine has caused clinical trial experts with disparate backgrounds from multiple organizations to collaborate when developing clinical trial protocols. Although many protocol-authoring tools provide computer-based decision support to assist in protocol writing, few of them provide sufficient collaboration support for a group of protocol writers. The iterative...
- Tags: Clinical Trial, Protocol, Healthcare
- White papers 2004-09-22
- Collapse Clinical Trial Cycles by Integrating Clinical Documentation and Data for Quick and Easy Access
- More than 80,000 clinical trials are conducted in the United States every year, and about 95 percent of them are still paper-based. First Consulting Group's FCG FirstDoc Clinical Trials streamlines the clinical trial process by capturing, authoring, processing and managing clinical documentation. By standardizing, controlling and securing clinical trials-related content,...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Clinical Trial, First Consulting Group, Healthcare
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Clinical Trial Online - Running SAS on the Web Without SAS/IntrNet
- During clinical trial, it is very important for the project management to have the most recent updated clinical trial information. The best solution is dynamic access to clinical trial data: dynamic data management and dynamic data analysis. SAS System almost became a standard programming language in clinical data analysis. With...
- Tags: Web, SAS System, Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, SAS/IntrNet Software, Healthcare
- White papers 2004-04-14
- Data Management in Analyzing Clinic Trial Data - Metadata Application
- Efficiently handling Clinical Trial Data based on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium CDISC standard, the regulatory rules from U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA and electronic data submission requirements is very important for Drug Development. Effectively managing Clinical Trial data can vastly increase work efficiency and reduce the probability...
- Tags: FDA, Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Data Management, Federal Government, Healthcare, Government
- White papers 2004-04-14
- Merck Optimizes A Reporting System For Clinical Trials
- Technologists at Merck & Co. Inc. have developed a pilot solution with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 to optimize the creation, transmission, and collection of information associated with late stage clinical trials. InfoPath is helping expedite the creation and completion of these reports and helping improve the quality of data captured...
- Tags: Microsoft InfoPath, Clinical Trial, Merck Co., Healthcare, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites
- Case studies
- CRC Cuts Cost of Clinical Trials by 10% and Shortens Study Time by Up to 30%
- Since 1989 CRC has helped pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies meet their drug development targets in a wide range of therapeutic areas. Since 1997 CRC has used Oracle Clinical, a comprehensive data management solution for integrated clinical research. Oracle Clinical captures and cleanses data contained on CRFs. By allowing clinical research...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Clinical Trial, Data Management, Healthcare, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Merck KGaA Deutschland Deploys the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform to Optimize Clinical Trials for New Pharmaceuticals
- The Merck group, based in Darmstadt, Germany, comprises 168 firms in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry in 56 countries. Clinical trials are executed using various software systems, including a back-end trial management system connected to an Oracle database. Forms and workflows have to be able to transfer information to the...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Clinical Trial, Merck Co., Merck KGaA Deutschland, Healthcare, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies
- Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development Uses SAS to Make Faster Decisions About Drug Development
- Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development, a New Jersey-based company, designs and conducts global experimental clinical research, coordinates global pivotal clinical trial plans, and designs and executes pivotal clinical trials in the United States. The company's core competency is the development of new medications, not the creation and maintenance of a Clinical...
- Tags: Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Healthcare
- Case studies
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Saves Millions Using SAS for Clinical Trial Simulations
- For pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, the development of a new medicine can take more than a decade - a decade of great expense for the developer and of prolonged anxiety for patients in need of new treatments. Meanwhile, the escalating cost of research and development, accompanied by the increasing complexity...
- Tags: Pharmaceutical Company, Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Healthcare
- Case studies
- Nth Analytics Selects SAS to Improve Delivery of Clinical Trial Analyses
- Nth Analytics faced the challenge of multiple SAS programmers providing code with too much variation. The organization had good, experienced SAS programmers, but it was difficult to get consistent SAS code from them. With SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence BI Server, the data is much more manageable because the software writes...
- Tags: Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Nth Analytics
- Case studies
- Merck Determines Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services Improves Confidentiality of Clinical Trial Information
- Information confidentiality is of critical importance to pharmaceutical firms. During clinical trials, Merck & Co., Inc., a leading world-wide pharmaceutical products and services company, exchanges sensitive information with participating partner physicians. This poses a security challenge because Merck must make every effort to protect the confidentiality of the information during...
- Tags: Confidentiality, Physician, Clinical Trial, Merck Co., Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, Information Confidentiality, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security
- Case studies
- Developers of Life Sciences Clinical Data Solution Reduce Code by Up to 40 Percent
- SCIREX Corporation, a leading Contract Research Organization CRO, helps life sciences companies take new drug treatments and therapies to market speedily. When a client's need for daily clinical trial safety data was slowed by the resolution process of data discrepancies, SCIREX hired DataLabs, a provider of software solutions for managing...
- Tags: Developer, Clinical Trial, Microsoft Corp., Life Science, Healthcare
- Case studies
- Why Clinical Development Teams Should Care About Data Standards - Part II: The Inner Workings of the ODM
- The CDISC Operational Data Model ODM was originally designed to provide a standard for the interchange and archive of clinical trial data. CDISC has employed this extension mechanism in the Case Report Tabulation Data Definition Standard (CRT DDS, also known as define.xml) to provide the means by which submission metadata...
- Tags: Team, Clinical Trial, Standards, CDISC, Healthcare
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