Technology Solutions

Eli Lilly expands its outsourcing partnership with i3 Statprobe

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 07:40 AM

Expanding the outsourcing support of its clinical trials, Eli Lilly is transferring U.S. medical writing and biostatistical services to i3 Statprobe, a move that expands the business relationship formed between the two companies in 2008 when Lilly transferred the majority of its domestic data management activities to i3.

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Four clinical research firms become one global services organization to target niche areas

Monday, September 20, 2010 07:18 AM

Four small and mid-sized clinical research service companies—Averion International, Trio Clinical Research, Fulcrum Pharma and Clin-Research/ADDPLAN—have merged into one global biopharmaceutical and medical device development services organization that will focus on niche areas, including adaptive trials and new technologies, which can help sponsors make decisions about their drug candidates faster.

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Alzheimer’s Association launches TrialMatch

Monday, August 9, 2010 07:25 AM

In an effort to help fulfill an urgent need for clinical trials patients, the
Alzheimer’s Association has spent $1.2 million to create TrialMatch. Launched in mid-July, the phone and online system aims to match Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers to ongoing clinical trials.

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PPD, Microsoft help manage REMS programs

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 08:07 AM

PPD and Microsoft have entered into an agreement to jointly implement a technology solution designed to improve efficiency in managing U.S. Food and Drug Administration-mandated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) programs.

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Partnership Assists Patient Recruitment

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 09:01 AM

Healthcare software company Bio-Optronics and Clinical Research Associates (CRA) have developed a strategic relationship to provide a solution for a clinical research site’s patient recruitment needs, which couples Bio-Optronics’ Clinical Conductor Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) and Clinical Research Associates’ patient recruitment offerings. Clinical Conductor CTMS is an enterprise workflow system for organizing the daily activities involving clinical research. Users can automate their regular routine to track the necessary metrics to maintain a viable research business, create efficiencies to take on more research with the same personnel, negotiate contracts, and efficiently recruit patients. “More sites have been proactively coming to us looking for ways to recruit faster, run trials more effectively, reduce costs, and be more marketable to sponsors,” Bio-Optronics Vice President Maria Durkin said. Clinical Conductor allows sites to leverage data about protocols and patients and provides the ability to quickly identify potential study subjects within an existing patient database. CRA specializes in patient recruitment and appointment scheduling for the clinical research industry.

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Business Process Management Firm Pegasystems Launches Life Sciences Vertical

Monday, July 12, 2010 10:04 AM

Pegasystems is making an official push into the life sciences. While the company has been quietly designing custom business process management software for drug-development clients since 2005, it is now pulling those offerings into a vertical.

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BBK Introduces Patient Recruitment Franchise Program

Friday, June 25, 2010 08:55 AM

BBK Worldwide expanded its three decades of expertise in supporting clinical R&D with the introduction of its patient recruitment franchise program at the DIA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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SAFE-BioPharma Signing up Sites, CROs

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 08:48 AM

Contract research organizations (CROs) and investigative sites have begun to adopt SAFE-BioPharma digital identities, which are already widely used by biopharmaceutical companies, in order to sign contracts and other clinical trial documents electronically.

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Combined Industry Trial Data on Alzheimer's Disease Made Widely Available to Researchers

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 08:41 AM

A new database of more than 4,000 Alzheimer's disease patients who have participated in 11 industry-sponsored clinical trials was released by the Coalition Against Major Diseases.

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Site-less, PI-less Trials?

Thursday, June 10, 2010 08:58 AM

Quincy Bioscience just may be on to something. The Madison, Wis.-based maker of the jellyfish-based supplement Prevagen has just launched a portal that allows most interactions with its study subjects to take place exclusively online.

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