• Taking The Guesswork Out Of Trial Planning

    Clinical Research News | Companies like Oracle and Cytel are taking unique approaches to study start-up, hoping cross-vendor integration and workflow automation can simplify the global, complex clinical trial process.

    Jul 10, 2019

  • UnitedHealth Group Acquires PatientsLikeMe

    Clinical Research News Brief | UnitedHealth Group has acquired online patient community portal PatientsLikeMe as of June 19. As part of the acquisition, the startup will now become part of UnitedHealth Group’s research arm that focuses on healthcare improvements and innovation.

    Jul 8, 2019

  • Common Protocol Template Gaining Traction

    Clinical Research News | Growing numbers of study sponsors have been adopting the Common Protocol Template (CPT)—or at least its basic structure—since TransCelerate BioPharma released the first version in 2015.

    Jul 8, 2019

  • Solving Sponsors' Top 10 R&D Pain Points With Data Ingestion And Harmonization Platforms

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | An overview of the top ten R&D pain points that state-of-the-art analytics solutions can solve for sponsors, both in the research and the development phases of a program's lifecycle, can provide an understanding of the benefits of AI-powered data ingestion and harmonization platforms.

    Jul 2, 2019

  • Aetion, Kit Check, Shimmer, And More: News From June 2019

    Clinical Research News | June was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from Aetion, Kit Check, Shimmer, and more.

    Jun 28, 2019

  • Data-Driven Approaches Gaining Favor With Study Sponsors

    Clinical Research News | A succession of global clinical development executives and strategic planners at this year's SCOPE Summit spoke about the radical shift away from traditional feasibility questionnaires and opinions of people on the ground to select sites for trials.

    Jun 28, 2019

  • Right-Sizing Site Selection: Streamlining Feasibility

    Clinical Research News | A major step forward in making clinical trials less onerous to conduct has been recent sponsor focus on "reducing the amount of paperwork and bureaucracy" put on sites.

    Jun 27, 2019

  • Right-Sizing Site Selection: Tapping The Evidence

    Clinical Research News | Pfizer, Allergan, and Merck each take a decidedly different approach to selecting sites and investigators for clinical trials. But across the board, data plays a starring role.

    Jun 26, 2019

  • Right-Sizing Site Selection: Predicting Enrollment

    Clinical Research News | Janssen is one of a growing number of life science companies actively building its data science capabilities to improve clinical trial operations. The centerpiece of these efforts is a feasibility intelligence platform that uses real-world evidence (RWE) and data analytics to inform site selection strategies for studies.

    Jun 25, 2019

  • Right-Sizing Site Selection: Does Data Hold Answers?

    Clinical Research News | Study sponsors are experimenting with strategies to improve the site selection process, leaning more heavily than ever before on evidence and machine learning techniques, and each other, to solve the problem child of clinical research—the low or no enrollers. So far, there are no clear winners.

    Jun 24, 2019

  • Adjusting To GDPR, One Year Later

    Clinical Research News | A year out from the regulation's launch, Mariya Pinskaya, Principal Consultant at Areva Consulting, sees a very consistent experience for trial participants, even if study teams are working harder in the background.

    Jun 20, 2019