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Reading Time: 4 minutesDiscover the breakthroughs shaping CNS research, as Cogstate’s Brad O’Connor sits down with Medidata CEO Anthony Costello to share his expert insights.

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Reading Time: 7 minutesThe clinical trial industry is facing several challenges today. Increased protocol complexity makes it harder to enlist sites that can deliver patients and high-quality data. Patient retention remains an obstacle despite the flexibility provided by remote and decentralized data collection. The variability of data sources and an increased number of stakeholders are creating a significant […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutesImaging plays a pivotal role in oncology clinical trials. It’s essential for evaluating tumor burden, assessing treatment response, and tracking disease progression. But traditionally, imaging workflows have been manual, variable, and time-consuming challenges that can delay trials and complicate regulatory submissions. Today, that’s changing. Technology is transforming the imaging landscape—delivering faster, more consistent, and higher-quality […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesSites are the core of every clinical trial. But in today’s environment with limited resources and increasingly complex protocols, they need stronger partnerships and better support. This doesn’t mean inundating site staff with as many technologies and tools as possible, however. Instead, they must be strategically empowered to spend more time on the tasks that […]

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccelerating the digital transformation for Life Sciences has been our sole focus and commitment during the past 20 years. For pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies, the promise of delivering precision medicine – with data-driven, insights-led decisions in real-time, and a full lifecycle platform to manage all data and operations – is paramount. That’s why […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesFlexibility, transparency, empathy, and a sense of shared purpose were key components for success when it comes to patient payments—based on a recent conversation between experts who live it every day: patients, sites, and sponsors. Earlier this year, Medidata hosted two in-person Patient Payments Workshops where pharma and biotech leaders got to talk one-on-one with […]

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Reading Time: 11 minutesClean, consistent, high-quality data is the lifeblood of a clinical trial. Clinical data management (CDM) is the collection, validation, quality management, integration, and delivery of clinical data to deliver high-quality, reliable data for statistical analysis, regulatory compliance and submission, medical decision-making, and further clinical research. Originally, CDM was manual, paper-based, and error-prone. In the 1990s, […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to the Clinical Minds “Innovator Insights Corner,” where we’ll be sharing fascinating stories, perspectives, and predictions from the guests of ‘from Dreamers to Disruptors’, a podcast by Medidata exploring life sciences innovation and the visionaries behind it all. Healthcare and technology have always been closely related. New developments in data management and analysis have […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesComplexity is synonymous with clinical research. But the word ‘complex’ has never been more appropriate than it is now as the industry leaps forward with transformative advancements in research methodologies, centralized frameworks, technologies, and data interoperability. As clinical data continues to grow in complexity, volume, and velocity, the demands on clinical trial technologies have increased, […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutes This is our five-part blog series on the most important characteristics of a unified technology platform. Read about the other four characteristics in this blog series: collaboration, single-source of truth, security and privacy, and scalability. Did you know? If a breakthrough HIV/AIDS drug that extended lifespans 14 years had been approved one year earlier, it would […]

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Reading Time: 8 minutesClinical trials have long been burdened by huge amounts of data combined with a massive need for meticulous accuracy. Traditional paper-based methods of capturing and recording clinical trial data are time-consuming and prone to errors—all while the scale and complexity of clinical trials have only continued to increase. For sponsors and CROs, that has meant […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutesPatient retention is critical to conducting efficient clinical trials and must always be top of mind. Unnecessary roadblocks that impact participation raise the risk of incomplete data, which impedes the development of essential treatments for patients who need them most. The experiences of the sponsor, site, and patient are key to understanding the challenges of […]

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