In the previous five posts in this series, I’ve taken you on a little journey designed to help you improve your relationship with your clinical sites, thereby boosting their performance and reducing your costs. In this, the final post in the series, I’ll summarize the key takeaways and offer up some additional resources to help […]
Posts Tagged ‘clinical trials’
CX Insights And Journey Maps Improve Clinical Site Relationships
In the previous posts in this series, I’ve explained why you should consider clinical sites as your “customers,” and what customer experience (CX) methodology is and how it’s used. In this post, I’ll explain how the methodology applies to clinical sites and how the insights it provides can help improve site relationships. With the notion […]
One Of The Best Ways To Improve Relationships With Clinical Sites
Clinical trials are the biggest expense in the drug development process, and there are myriad systems out there designed to reduce operational costs. In fact, Perficient implements, integrates, and hosts several of them. But, what we are seeing now in the life sciences industry is a growing awareness of front-line operations; that is, an interest […]
Release Notes: Oracle/Perficient’s Clinical Apps [June 2017]
Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, as well as our own clinical and safety systems. The systems covered in our review are: Oracle Systems Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Perficient Systems ASCEND (Siebel CTMS) Generally speaking, we review release […]
EudraVigilance: Some Things To Consider Right Now
E2B(R3) So, there we have it, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has finally issued a statement, which confirms the date of release for the bigger, better EudraVigilance: November 22, 2017. Time to go into panic mode? Absolutely not. But, here are some of the things you should be thinking about as the deadline approaches: Training […]
Why U.S. Prescription Drugs Cost So Much
The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry is an incredibly rewarding place to work. We get to help patients feel better, more effectively manage their conditions, cure their diseases, and even prevent them from getting sick all together. But the life sciences industry is not without its challenges. According to a recent Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of […]
Why Monitoring Adverse Events And Drug Safety Signals Matters
It takes an average of 10 to 15 years and $2.6 billion for a drug to reach pharmacy shelves. While there are many steps in the process that contribute to this lengthy timeline and cost, no aspect of the process is more critical than proving the safety of a drug. Since a patient’s health is […]
How To Determine Whether Your IT System Is Regulated
A couple weeks back, I launched a brief blog series about assessing and mitigating risk with regulated IT systems. This week’s post will cover the first part in a four-part approach you can use to do just that: assess and mitigate risk. Part One: System Regulated Status The first step is to determine whether a […]
Pharma Leans On Private Equity To Fund Clinical Trials
In a time in which research and development costs are at an all-time high, The Wall Street Journal just shared how pharmaceutical companies are starting to look for outside help to fund trials: everything from phase II all the way through the commercial phase. Partnering with private equity firms, such as NovaQuest and Avillion, is […]
Release Notes: Oracle/Perficient’s Clinical Apps [May 2017]
Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, as well as our own clinical and safety systems. The systems covered in our review are: Oracle Systems Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Perficient Systems ASCEND (Siebel CTMS) Generally speaking, we review release […]
[Webinar] An Intro To Clinical Study Migrations
Migrating clinical studies from one database to another (such as Oracle Clinical to Oracle Clinical or Oracle Clinical to Oracle InForm or Medidata Rave), is a complex process that requires a thorough understanding of clinical data management, technology, and the regulations that govern clinical trials. Join me and my colleague, Richard Gavan, for an informational webinar […]
New Guide On Modernizing Clinical Trials With Digital Experiences
The industry is all a-buzz with digital engagement initiatives for patients, but let’s not forget about clinical subjects and even site personnel. They’re technology consumers, just like the rest of us, and they crave clinical trials that are simple, easy, convenient, and engaging. As an advocate for sites and subjects, Perficient just published a guide […]