Trial recruitment system upgraded; automation spending expected to rise
> Subject-recruitment management system TrialCentralNet 5.0 has been unveiled by BBK Worldwide. Features include tools for proactive planning of enrollment efforts, targeted criteria for site...
View ArticlePortal aids trail safety data management; Local efforts beat Internet for...
> ERT has launched an online web interface, My Study Portal, aimed at enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of cardiac safety data management in clinical trials. Announcement> Local efforts have...
View ArticleSite helps visitors find trials
With a paucity of participants in clinical trials among the factors in lengthening the development timeline for new drugs, contract research giant Quintiles has opened ClinicalResearch.com, an Internet...
View ArticleSoftware culls insurance claims for subjects
Clinical informatics meets patient data in a solution that targets the lagging subject enrollment of clinical trials. The software capitalizes on the ability of top-ranking investigators to enroll...
View ArticlePharma, social media continue dance
The pharma/social media attraction has its difficulties, even beyond the regulatory issues involving drug branding and marketing. Upsides in clinical trial recruitment are countered by downsides in...
View ArticleFacebook privacy upgrade foretells trial tool
Facebook's privacy protection upgrade last week could well be a gateway to more and safer online sharing of patient information--perhaps aiding investigators in such clinical trial activities as...
View ArticleGSK sites compete in subject recruitment
In its effort to crack one of the tougher clinical trial nuts, GlaxoSmithKline has doubled the efficiency of its subject-recruitment efforts. The pharma giant says it averages about 400 subjects at 60...
View ArticleMarketing, multimedia aid recruitment
Service provider Quintiles is taking a marketing tack to improve patient-recruitment capabilities. The Quintiles Trial Enrollment Accelerator unveiled last week targets site-level enrollment tasks,...
View ArticleNew media use rising in subject recruitment
E-mail and text-message visit reminders are among the newer subject-retention tactics being practiced by trial managers. But little effort is devoted to retention, says Cutting Edge Research.Retention...
View ArticleIT answers sticky trial-startup challenges
Subject recruitment difficulties are driving solution developments based on Web 2.0 capabilities and data mining, according to John Johnson, associate director for statistics at Cato Research, in Ask...
View ArticleOracle targets subject recruitment at hospitals
Oracle is putting its integration know-how to work on one of the most difficult of clinical trial tasks: subject recruitment. And it's doing so in one of the most difficult environments, though one of...
View ArticleInference engine, EDC team to ID trial volunteers
Subject recruitment gets an automation boost as Visual Healthcare combines an inference engine with clinical data-capture tools. The tools gather physician-collected data on subjects from previous and...
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