Tag Archives: CROs

Partnering in China, Asia-Pacific

By Lisa Henderson | Published: January 26, 2010
—May Ling Chan, Voisin Consulting, corresponding for Applied Clinical Trials The Asia-Pacific region has many relatively untapped resources: it is home to one third of the world’s population, collectively the region’s economy is growing at a fast pace (particularly in China, Korea and India), and accordingly it has one of the fastest expanding pharmaceutical markets. Against this [...]
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Survey Reveals EDCs Impact on Sites

By Kerri Nelen | Published: December 17, 2009
EDC. From pharma’s perspective it’s been a blessing. No more slaving over thousands of pages of data to enter. But what about its impact on the individuals who actually use it at the site level? Plagued by this question, TechTeam set out to find the answer. So, they teamed up with eClinical Forum (eCF), a nonprofit [...]
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Biometric IDs for India’s Trial Volunteers?

By Kerri Nelen | Published: December 8, 2009
Business-Standard.com reports India’s Ministry of Health and Family Warfare (MHFW) is planning to require biometric identification for all Indian trial participants. If you’re unfamiliar, biometric data is what Walt Disney World captures from every park attendee: a fingerprint. It also includes iris data.     Unidentified ministry officials told Business-Standard: “The move will bring transparency into the conduct of [...]
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Matching Supply with Demand

By Kerri Nelen | Published: November 25, 2009
Back in September a new Web site entered the scene. It’s www.pharmatching.com, an online matchmaker for the pharmaceutical industry. And like a wise, business-savvy cupid, it brings together two companies that need each other. The site is the brainchild of Gabriele Dallman, who started her career 20 years ago at Germany’s regulatory authority. She thought of [...]
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Advocates for Efficiency

By Lisa Henderson | Published: November 23, 2009
Health Decisions is no stranger to the CRO world, having been around for the past 19 years. What also isn’t new is their approach to clinical trial and program management, which is based on efficiencies, tools, metrics and good project management. What is new is their global CRO partnership network, which seeks to bring its [...]
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Case Study of Data Integration

By Lisa Henderson | Published: November 12, 2009
While the title of the latest Webcast we presented was called Data Management and Integration for the Future of Clinical Trials, the case study presented and audience response indicated that integration is about halfway to the future. Tom O’Leary, Senior VP, Global Head of Data Management for ICON Clinical Research, presented to the audience its solution [...]
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The Divide Between Patients and Trials

By Lisa Henderson | Published: November 2, 2009
In a recent Frost & Sullivan webcast, its Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology practice Senior Industry Analyst Barath Shankar presented on his study “Contract Research & Manufacturing Services, Trends in Deal Making.” One top industry challenge Shankar named was the “Increasing Divide between Patient Access and Studies Threatens Productivity.” Shankar gave that challenge an impact level of [...]
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PPD Exec Speaks to CRO Technology Changes

By Lisa Henderson | Published: October 21, 2009
Yesterday, Jim Streeter, executive director, technology and implementation, Global Technical Operations, presented a comprehensive look at the changing IT needs for the CRO industry.  In a Webinar sponsored by Oracle, and available here for on-demand viewing, Streeter discussed how CROs are taking on the IT investment that sponsors have shed, and in fact need offer multiple vendors’ [...]
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Revisiting CRO Outsourcing Trends in 2009

By Kerri Nelen | Published: August 21, 2009
Back in June we ran the feature story “Successful Outsourcing: Tracking Global CRO Usage,” by Kenneth Getz and John Vogel. The information presented was collected during February and March 2009 as part of an email survey sent to a subgroup of Applied Clinical Trials readers. In all, 392 readers responded, the majority of whom (83%) [...]
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