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Why yes, I can do longitudinal data analysis: 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...; Tags: Data Analysis, School, Clinical Trial, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-09-29
Opera Accelerates Clinical Trial Data Collection and Expands Analytic Capabilities: 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...; Tags: Opera Software, Oracle Corp., Clinical Trial, Opera Srl, Healthcare; Case studies 2008-07-01
LEO Pharma Adopts Electronic Data Capture to Streamline Clinical Trials and Regulatory Review: 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...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Data Capture, Streamline, Pharmaceutical Company, Clinical Trial, Data Management, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2008-07-01
Healthcare Leader Is Digitizing Clinical Trial Administration to Boost Productivity: 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...; Tags: Administration, Clinical Trial, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Healthcare Leader, Financial Accounting, Regulatory Compliance, Healthcare, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; Case studies 2008-06-01
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

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
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
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; Webcasts
Why Clinical Development Teams Should Care About Data Standards - Part I: An Introduction to the CDISC Operational Data Model (ODM): Standards have the potential to increase the value of clinical trial information by allowing ready exchange among partners and integration for broader and better reviews; in fact, standards can drive innovation. The CDISC Operational Data Model ODM was designed to provide a vendor-neutral, platform-independent means of exchanging data among clinical...; Tags: Team, Clinical Trial, Standards, Healthcare; Webcasts