NOTTINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - Nov 5, 2013 - Exco InTouch, the leading provider of patient engagement and data capture solutions for clinical research and healthcare providers, has been appointed to build a bespoke electronic data capture (EDC) system for the USA and International clinical researcher of the year awards- organized by Pharma Times.

The competitions take place in November London, UK, and North Carolina, USA, with new templates being used by the judging panel to record competency scores, develop individual and team benchmarks and to enable the recording of qualitative observations. Moreover, these technologies will help to improve the provision of personal development reports, which form a core part of the competition's aims.

Tim Davis, CEO and co-founder of Exco InTouch commented: "The International and US clinical researcher of the year awards are the preeminent standard bearers in the industry. We were approached to bring our new evaluation platforms, that are so widely used across the clinical community, to increase rigor within the evaluation process.  Clinical researcher has moved into a new age of electronic data capture and analysis and by using these methods within the awards process, we can mirror the advancements of the wider industry. The best researchers deserve to be judged using the widest and most detailed data available"

Carol Parish, Senior Director and Global Head for Clinical Development, Stiefel (a GSK company) and Chair of the Competition's Executive Committee commented: "This is a great development for the competition. As we value all our entrants, we have strived to provide them with constructive feedback. As we have been reliant on a paper-based method in previous years, this is a great step forward to improve our feedback in the future in a more timely and consistent manner. Its great to have Exco InTouch on board."

About Exco InTouch

Exco InTouch is the leading provider of patient engagement and data capture solutions to support Clinical, Late Phase and mHealth programs for leading healthcare and biopharmaceutical companies. Placing the patient at its heart, our proven technology can be employed on any device, empowering the patient to be more involved in their healthcare and ultimately leading to better health outcomes. Using a combination of patented software and services our technology can be scaled up to match clients' global requirements and our trusted, low risk applications mean that you can be confident that your data is secure and protected, in line with global regulatory and data protection requirements.

Our solutions capitalize upon global mobile device and internet usage, using a device independent approach enabling involvement which integrates into daily life - resulting in motivated and compliant patients across a wealth of therapeutic, demographic and geographic programs in clinical and commercial settings.

Since 2004, Exco InTouch have engaged with over 750,000 subjects across 85 countries, over 8000 hospitals and clinics, in 70 languages and 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies have deployed our technology. 

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