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My Colleagues Just Solved A Clin Ops Business Problem With…What?

With Appian. Yes, Appian. “I have no idea what that is…” Yes, I can read your mind. Okay, okay, I’m not actually clairvoyant. But I do have a pretty good sense of the industry, and I know that Appian hasn’t become a household name, yet. But, the times they are a-changin’. Appian is a business […]

Duke & FDA Study On Investigator Retention Shows 54% Turnover

Last month, Duke University and the FDA released the results of a jointly conducted study on principal investigator (PI) retention. The study was released early online, but the print version is being published in June in the journal of Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, published by Elsevier. The purpose of the study was two-fold: 1) to […]

Release Notes: Oracle/Perficient’s Clinical Apps [April 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 […]

21 CFR Part 11 Is Complicated Enough, So We Stripped The Legalese

If that title compelled you to open this post, then you know what 21 CFR Part 11 is, and you also know – as my 12-year-old step daughter would say – “the struggle is real.” 21 CFR Part 11 is perhaps the most famous (or infamous!) regulation published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]

How To Fix The Sponsor/CRO-Site/Investigator Relationship

Many moons ago, I wrote the blog post This Is Bad News For Sponsors And CROs, in which I shared how the number of principal investigators interested in running new trials had declined. Another blog post from several several years ago, Wait, You’re Not Using an Investigator Portal?, shared one method of increasing satisfaction among […]

Final Thoughts On Oracle Industry Connect 2017 (w/Pictures)

The fourth year of Oracle Industry Connect (OIC) was, overall, an absolute success. Several thousand attendees from around the world and a variety of industries met in Orlando to learn about the latest trends in technology and to hear firsthand how companies have been able to streamline and strengthen their businesses with software solutions from […]

How I Set Up Each Virtual Machine To Support Siebel

I thought it might be helpful to provide instruction on how I set up each virtual machine to support the Oracle Siebel Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) implementation and integration projects I work on. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a clone master for each version of Siebel that I keep offline […]

Release Notes: Oracle/Perficient’s Clinical Apps [March 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 […]

How And Why I Use Oracle VM VirtualBox

One of the challenges that I face at my job is supporting multiple clients that use different versions of Siebel Clinical (CTMS). Not only are they different versions, but each instance has been uniquely configured and enhanced. With many clients to support, plus internal product development efforts, I needed to find a way to run […]

Release Notes: Oracle/Perficient’s Clinical Apps [Feb. 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 Accel-Account Manager Accel-Copy ASCEND (Siebel CTMS) Generally speaking, […]

Are These Design Elements On Your List For Clinical Data Review?

In a few of my previous blog posts (4 Ways You Can Improve The Clinical Data Review Process and Using On-demand Data With Dynamic Data Writeback In Spotfire), I discussed using Spotfire as an aid for Clinical Review of data along with supporting writeback capabilities to record the user review actions. In the next several […]

Release Notes: Oracle/Perficient’s Clinical Apps [January 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 Accel-Account Manager Accel-Copy ASCEND (Siebel CTMS) Generally speaking, […]

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