Technology Solutions

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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eResearchTechnology Completes CareFusion Acquisition

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 08:42 AM

eResearchTechnology (ERT), a global provider of technology and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, announced the successful closing of the acquisition of the research services division of CareFusion Corporation (CRS).

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University of North Carolina, Olympus Open Advanced Imaging Center

Monday, June 7, 2010 09:30 AM

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has opened a new facility designed to be one of the world’s most sophisticated research centers devoted to life science imaging. The UNC-Olympus Research Imaging Center provides researchers with advanced equipment, software, consultation and expertise and is designed to stimulate collaboration among top life science research faculty members. It will be available to guest researchers as well.

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Novotech Becomes Medidata Solutions’ Partner

Friday, June 4, 2010 10:01 AM

Medidata Solutions, a global eClinical provider, announced that Australian contract research organization (CRO) Novotech has joined Medidata’s ASPire to Win channel partner program. As Australia’s largest full-service Australian CRO with extensive operations across Asia, Novotech can now offer sponsors a full range of services around the Medidata Rave electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM) solution.

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