Phastar expands globally, adding offices in Japan and the US, and enters a partnership with Medidata to transform its increasing data points into insights.
Getting patients into possibly life-saving trials has long been a complex process, however, with the age of electronic health records and cloud-based data, there are opportunities for simplification.
Like many of its peers in the contract clinical research sector, data management specialist Phase Forward put in another bumper financial performance in the second quarter headed by a 30 per cent hike in revenues to $41m.
As eClinical gathers momentum, Outsourcing-Pharma.com spoke to two
contract research organisations (CROs), Icon and Parexel, to get
their views on the present and future of these emerging
technologies.
The move towards electronic files is set to bring major benefits in
the clinical trials area especially in terms of patient
recruitment, new research suggests.
There is a growing realisation in pharma that, to remain
competitive, paper-based trials are not the way forward. Instead,
electronic data capture (EDC) and management technology solutions
are now readily available and becoming more...
PRA International has been busy implementing an advanced data
management system as part of a number of new internal measures
aimed at improving operating efficiency and cutting the costs of
clinical trials.