IT giant Oracle will pay $685m (€507m) for eClinical solutions firm Phase Forward, significantly expanding its presence in the billion dollar contract clinical research sector.
ePharmaSolutions has launched Clinical Trial Portal (CTP) 4.0, adding new capabilities including electronic monitor visit report (eMVR) and improved site feasibility application (SFA).
Perceptive Informatics has added industry standard performance metrics to its medical imaging capabilities, allowing users to track progress against Metrics Champion Consortium (MCC) criteria.
Aris Global has introduced Total Clinical 2.0, a software package which integrates EDC, safety and adverse event systems to streamline operations and cut costs.
Eli Lilly has taken an expansive approach to outsourcing, adding an agreement with Thermo Fisher to its raft of deals, and this strategy is visualised in an interactive timeline from Outsourcing-Pharma.
Liquent and Take Solutions say their new partnership provides pharmaceutical firms with an efficient, cost effective outsourced solution for regulatory publication and submissions.
INC Research is partnering with invivodata to add ePRO to its offering, selecting the eClinical firm over its competitors in part because it understands the “aggressive” approach the CRO takes.
E Research Technology (ERT) launches Centralised Cardiac Safety 2.0 (CCS 2.0) service for ECG data and says approach improves efficiency, cuts costs and helps sponsors reach database lock quicker than distributed model.
Kendle has implemented a centralised biostatistics platform which will “create significant time savings” by improving global access to clinical trial data, according to the company.
An adaptive approach to both the design and operation of a clinical trial can boost efficiency, reduce timelines and cut costs says Health Decisions' CEO Michael Rosenberg.
OmniComm has launched a comprehensive Phase I eClinical tool, which it believes is the first of its kind, to help users make cost and time savings by improving efficiencies.
Kendle is setting up a facility in a special economic zone (SEZ) in India which will provide clinical support services and be able to rapidly increase staffing in response to spikes in demand.
BioClinica Optimizer has launched to allow users to simulate and optimise their clinical trials, providing information to identify potential supply shortages or excesses and study delays.
MedNet Solutions is introducing iMedNet, a pay-as-you-go web-based EDC platform to support collaboration and communication between clinical trial stakeholders.
Integrated solutions are the future of trial data management according to Phase Forward as growth of the electronic data capture (EDC) market begins to slow.
BioClinica is providing Cephalon with end-to-end clinical data management services and hiring some of the biotech’s staff under a three-year, multi-million dollar deal.
OmniComm has connected its TrialMaster EDC system to Microsoft (MS) HealthVault, allowing health records and data to be transferred to a patient’s file during clinical trials.
MDS Pharma Services has adopted SAS Drug Development to allow for closer collaboration with sponsors and provide a centralised, integrated system for data management and analysis.
Fujitsu has launched a SaaS-based data management system which it claims can speed up clinical trials, eliminate set up and maintenance costs and allow CROs and sponsors to use the same IT environment.
Quintiles Transnational has selected US ePRO solutions provider Invivodata to help it meet growing regulatory pressure to focus on the patient perspectives during trials.
The SCDM says that edit checks are a crucial component of achieving error-free data and has updated its Good Clinical Data Management Practices (GCDMP) resource with a best practice guide.
European ScreeningPort is using IDBS’ ActivityBase XE to manage growing demand for screening services from the academic institutes which outsource to it.
Trials contractor Kendle International will use a management platform developed by US software group MetricStream to help control its global compliance and quality assurance operations.
Kaulkin Information Systems (KIS) is launching SaaS KISTrack TrackHealth to help pharma and healthcare staff monitor, manage and share electronic health records (EHR).
Medidata says the latest addition to its EDC platform, the Rave Safety Gateway, will cut the time it takes to report adverse events during trials and help CROs and their sponsors comply with increasingly stringent reporting rules.
Infosys Technologies has helped CRO Quantum Solutions India (QSI) implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 which will allow data management, process harmonisation and reduce delays.
Phase Forward is moving towards offering integrated systems to meet pharma’s need to maximise cost effectiveness and deal with upcoming EDC market saturation, according to a SVP at the company.
Pharma’s increasing collaboration and budget cuts have made hosted software more attractive to companies, according to Symyx which has made its lab notebook available on this platform.
Welsh contract services firm Penn Pharmaceuticals has reorganised its transport and delivery infrastructure in the first phase of a £12m (€13.3m) expansion at its facility in Tredegar.
In Q3 Phase Forward’s revenues from CROs grew by 44 per cent year-on-year and it predicts a bright 2010, as a backlog of delayed trials are started and big pharma attempts to cut IT costs.
Indian CRO Siro Clinpharma has ramped up clinical trial manufacturing capacity at its facility in Mumbai in response to growing demand from pharma and biotech firms.
Following a “significant increase in demand” GVK Biosciences has partnered with Quantitative Solutions (QS) to develop and market clinical trial outcome databases, which they believe can improve drug development.
Hungarian drugmaker Gedeon Richter will use Phase Forward’s Clintrial software package to manage its study programmes under a deal signed late last week.
ClearTrial has expanded its eClinical offering to create “the only system in the industry” that can provide fast and accurate project tracking, management of accrued liabilities and midstream study adjustments.
Japanese CRO CMIC says rising demand for Medidata Solutions’ Rave EDC system in Asia drove its decision to seek top-level provider status under the US firm’s accreditation scheme.
US CRO Health Decision says the new “Monitor View” module for its HD360 trial management system makes assessing study site performance an easier and more cost effective process.
ethica Clinical has added biomarker data analysis technology to its roster of services in a C$1.25m (€782,899) deal with fellow Canadian CRO Matrix Pharma.
Improved access to data and the ability for users to share comments are among the features added to latest version of Veracity, an electronic data capture (EDC) system from Kika Clinical Solutions.
Phase Forward has adopted technologies from BMC Software to improve its operational efficiency, make “substantial cost savings” and ensure its systems maintain the availability, reliability and compliance demanded by clients.
BioClinica is continuing to acquire companies in the wake of the collapse of its etrials bid, buying software and services provider Tourtellotte Solutions just over two weeks after its last takeover.
Virtify says the new online version of its Virtx CTRR system can help drugmakers comply with the increasingly complex disclosure rules that regulators worldwide apply to clinical trials, in an automated approach that saves time and money.
Orasi Medical claims CROs and pharmas can cut the cost and length of Alzheimer’s trials, and improve accuracy, by using its brain function measuring service, which is now being promoted in Japan.
US firms Xybion Medical Systems and Locus Technology say their new animal management and data analysis partnership will help streamline preclinical development and reduce research costs.
Colorado trial support services group nSpire Health says its Koko spirometry and PiKoLogic ePro technologies were crucial factors in winning more than $9m (€6.1m) worth of clinical research contracts.
US discovery chemistry contractor ChemBridge has made some of its most popular small molecule libraries available on-line through a partnership with preclinical data specialist Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD).
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