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Reading Time: 2 minutes How CROs Can Use a Unified Platform for Virtual Clinical Trials Adaptive speed is an essential ingredient for optimal performance, growth, and transformation in times of unprecedented change. When investing in technology to support virtualization, a myriad of cloud technologies suites of capabilities are available. While evaluating options, consider a virtualization path built on proven […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes How CROs Can Power Patient Enrollment and Retention In Virtual Trials with Proven Innovative Technology COVID-19 has caused CROs and sites to experience profound disruptions in patient enrollment and retention.To encourage participation, reduce burden, and decrease dropout rate, CROs need proven innovative technology to ensure that participation in clinical trials can be seamlessly integrated into […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Be A Site Enabler Through Virtual Clinical Trial Oversight and Remote Monitoring Faced with heightened challenges due to the pandemic, CROs have to navigate across the recovery of significantly impacted trials, the rapid launch of new studies, and the adoption of new technologies to counter patient and site disruptions. In recent surveys, 69% of sites reported […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes How CROs Adapt to Sponsors’ Desired Levels of Virtual Clinical Trials Sponsors depend on CROs to adapt—biopharmas outsource roughly 50% to CROs, and that percentage continues to grow each year. CROs who quickly adapt to virtualization using proven innovative technology complemented by an unmatched partnership experience gain a competitive edge, and the opportunity to rise above […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes COVID-19 completely flipped the world of clinical trials on its head. While the pandemic has put many facets of daily life on pause, clinical trials have not stood still. CROs are called upon to deliver quick solutions in these unprecedented times to navigate site closures, changing regulations, and enabling virtual clinical trial solutions. Interrupted studies […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes This post was guest authored by Dave McKie, vice president, marketing | Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systèmes company By any measure, 2020 was a year to remember. For those of us in life sciences, 2020 was an opportunity to discover treatments for the COVID-19 pandemic. And the industry rose to the challenge, with one […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen clinical endpoints are subjective, image-based, or complex to assess, or the study is geographically broad, researchers of new drugs and devices may find it difficult to demonstrate acceptable safety results to regulatory authorities. To meet this requirement, trial sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) are turning to clinical endpoint committees (CEC) for independent event […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutesToday’s agile clinical trial operations are grounded on the principles of Risk-based Quality Management (RBQM) using a data-centric strategy with actionable insights to enhance decision making capabilities. A successful RBQM strategy requires integration and harmonization across multiple data sources and complex workflows. Medidata is unifying RBQM and clinical trial management, delivering the ability to define […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog was authored by Fiona Maini, global compliance and strategy principal, Medidata. The Value of eConsent Traditionally, the way to get a patient’s informed consent to participate in a clinical trial has been a paper-based process. A patient will sit with an investigator and go through pages and pages of information about the […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Meet Irfan, who works in front-end and middle-tier development as part of a team that works on the platform’s cloud admin. Hometown : Hyderabad, India Currently live: Secaucus, NJ Years at Medidata? 1 year this May Why did you join Medidata? After working in finance/fintech, gaming and HRM, I sought an opportunity to contribute towards […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Clinical Financial Blog was created to address the complexities that are encountered with financial management of clinical trials. With a lot of critical financial requirements still not being fully understood and addressed, we’ve got you covered. Medidata’s team of experts that have lived and breathed the budgeting and site payments processes for many years […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutesElectronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA) have been used in clinical trials in some form or another for more than two decades. They are now the mainstream method of collecting pivotal outcome data in clinical trials, and we have definitely broached the “slope of enlightenment” into the “plateau of productivity” of the eCOA hype cycle, with […]

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