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Reading Time: 2 minutes The usage of electronic data capture (EDC) and other technology-based solutions in clinical trials—e.g., interactive web-response systems (IWRS), clinical trial management systems (CTMS) and electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) tools—has shown a substantial growth over the last decade. However in Israel, the adoption rate of EDC by locally-based companies has not increased, and many are still using paper-based solutions for their trials.

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes This week, more than 200 leaders from across the industry will convene at the Forbes Healthcare Summit to discuss the changes newly empowered patients are bringing to the healthcare landscape. Medidata is again sponsoring the summit because it is exactly the type of collaborative environment that is needed if healthcare and research are going to break out of current models.

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Many people may believe that if an integration works, it was created the right way. The reality is that an integration working correctly is not necessarily an indication that it was built using the best available methods and, moreover, that it will continue to work correctly five years down the road. Technologies change, products get upgraded, colleagues come and go, data models are modified and of course software has an irritating way of getting “brittle.”

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMarketing mix models are leveraged to assess the impact of multiple promotional channels within a company or brand on their return on investment or ROI. Bayesian regressions combined with nonlinear transformations and ad stock decay are the common marketing data models of choice. But as the data landscape rapidly shifts with technology-driven advances such as […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutes“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” – Benjamin Disraeli. All elements of a clinical trial are tightly controlled, but studies are increasingly complex, protocol amendments are common, and recruitment is unpredictable. In addition, our world is changing constantly and rapidly, directly impacting both trials and subjects. Unpredictability is part of the clinical trials landscape. Not […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesSheila Diamond, MS, CGC, Director, Scientific Engagement, Medidata Blood Cancer Awareness Month occurs every September in an attempt to raise awareness about cancers such as lymphomas, leukemias, and myelomas. Blood cancers are the third leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and tens of thousands of Americans are diagnosed each year1. In fact, […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDriving continuous innovation and the user experience is at the heart of Medidata’s DNA. In July 2023, The Everest Group positioned Medidata as an industry leader in their Life Sciences Clinical Data and Analytics (D&A) Platforms PEAK Matrix Assessment. This recognition is the latest in a long list of accolades. It stems from the innovative […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring a clinical trial, sponsors/CROs may have bulk, repetitive tasks to execute, such as setting up user accounts or classifying documents to be filed in the TMF (trial master file). Clinical IT teams may want to automate such processes to alleviate user burden, and they have options on how to automate clinical trial tasks. This […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutesImplementing a new clinical trial management system (CTMS) often involves transferring data from one system to another with the goals of accuracy, integrity, and compatibility between systems. To ensure a smooth data migration, careful planning and execution are necessary for an efficient and error-free process. This was a hot topic at Medidata’s recent webinar, Big […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBreast Cancer Awareness Month has occurred every October for over four decades. The month seeks to promote awareness and education about early detection, treatments, symptoms, and risk factors for breast cancer. Increased overall awareness has helped to improve mortality rates and prognoses, but there’s still work to be done to fight against this disease. Due […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat Are Medical Devices? As defined in Section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a medical device is: “An instrument...intended for use in the “diagnosis...cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease...and primary purpose not through chemical action within or on the body...” This differs from in vitro diagnostics (IVD) products, which are defined […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog was written by Sheri Lillis, RTSM Solution Services Principal at Medidata. Clinical trials continue to rapidly grow in complexity, largely driven by increasingly sophisticated protocols, both from scientific and operational perspectives. As sponsors adopt more diverse designs, their randomization and trial supply management (RTSM) systems (sometimes referred to as interactive response technology [IRT]) […]

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