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Reading Time: 2 minutes Meet Sarala, who manages an operations team which supports all the Medidata applications hosted on AWS cloud. This includes support for all the production issues and upgrades upon customer requests. Her team is spread out in our UK, NJ, and San Francisco locations, and they are part of the Service Delivery and Customer Enablement team. […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The life science industry is at an inflection point: Integrated evidence is gaining traction and acceptance, growing in demand and application. There is a proliferation of healthcare data, including both clinical trial data and real-world data. This creates an unprecedented opportunity for driving insights to accelerate not only decision-making in clinical development but also medical […]

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes Episode Transcript: What if a Treatment Already Exists? Medical students endure rigorous training, but tack on the onset of a rare, debilitating illness, and suddenly life is no longer about getting good grades—it becomes a desperate race for survival. Dr. David Fajgenbaum, who contracted idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease while in medical school, is one of […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe life science industry frequently uses patient centricity as a buzzword, but promoting the idea of patient centricity without action dilutes the term’s meaning and frustrates patients. In a new NEXT Virtual Conference session, Alicia Staley, senior director, patient engagement, explains Medidata’s concrete framework for patient centricity by design, reviews our 2019 accomplishments, and delivers […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Insights from Medidata Experts Mid-sized and emerging biopharma companies drive innovation in clinical trials, originating and launching 40% of new active substances (NAS) in 2020.1 However, lean resources, limited access to sites and patients, lack of integrated systems, and uncertain funding impose restrictions on mid-sized and emerging sponsors and slow the pace of drug development. […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Life science and drug development industries are among the most heavily regulated in the world. Regulations and guidelines change constantly due to globalization and advancements in technology, along with improvements for patient outcomes and safety. Increasing demands from patients, consumers, and regulators have led to an evolution in the world of the patient experience, which […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Insights from Medidata Experts Mid-sized and emerging biopharma companies drive innovation in clinical trials, and their choice of technology plays a critical role in powering this innovation. How can mid-sized and emerging sponsors leverage technology and data to best position themselves for success? This two-part blog series, following a post on general recommendations, brings insights […]

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes Episode Transcript: What Is a Patient Equation? In our sixth episode “What Is a Patient Equation?” we talk with Glen de Vries, co-founder and co-CEO of Medidata Solutions and the author of the upcoming book, The Patient Equation: The Precision Medicine Revolution in the Age of COVID-19 and Beyond. We learn about the critical […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the next few weeks we will be featuring some of our fantastic Medidata interns who are making waves throughout the company this summer! Next up is Ryan M.! Location of internship? Working remotely from my off-campus apartment at Fordham University. Hometown? Astoria, Queens. What school do you go to? Fordham University. What are you […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Good clinical practice recommendations prioritize patient safety and the generation of reliable and meaningful results from clinical trial operations. Trials built and conducted according to good clinical practice involve a risk-based, system-supported approach. Consequently, as sponsors and CROs continue to adopt new technologies to run trials, clinical operations increasingly integrate risk-based quality management into normal […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite years of effort to simplify and automate site budgeting and payments, financial management challenges are growing in life sciences. Since the early 2000s, 63% more sites participate in research, causing a sharp increase in the number of budget negotiations.[1] On average, over 10 weeks are spent negotiating every clinical trial budget and contract, causing […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes As the demand for treatments, vaccines, and diagnostic tests remains high, companies depend on reliable and efficient study builds to initiate trials. According to Medidata’s published report, “COVID-19 and Clinical Trials: The Medidata Perspective,” for vaccines alone, there are 138 candidates in the preclinical phase, 35 in phase I or phase I/II trials, 4 in […]

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