Posts Tagged ‘electronic data capture’

  Last week, I attended a webinar that showcased the results of a study on the adoption of clinical trial software in life sciences. The study was conducted by a working group led by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, CDISC, and Oracle Health Sciences, and the results reiterated what we already […]

  Let’s face it: Keeping clinical trials on schedule is not easy to do. Whether a sponsor runs into issues with quality, timeline, personnel, or myriad other things with an outsourced partner, it’s crucial to address the problems as soon as they’re identified. There are a few routes a sponsor can take when a study […]

  One question we often get relates to disabling Oracle Clinical (OC) and Remote Data Capture (RDC) accounts. What happens to the OC/RDC accounts of users who separate from a company or roll off of a clinical trial? The answer is relatively simple, though not necessarily obvious, because the only way to tell if an […]

  Last November, I wrote about the new release of Oracle Clinical, Remote Data Capture (RDC), and Thesaurus Management System (TMS), version 5.1. As many companies continue to run these “tried-and-true” clinical data management and EDC systems, the enhancements were quite welcome. Since then, our data management team has been developing a complete Validation Suite […]

  Sponsors are known to work with multiple contract research organizations (CROs). And, depending on the agreement in place with each CRO, data can be captured in either the sponsor’s systems (CDMS and/or EDC) or the CRO’s. If the data is stored in CRO databases, there may come a time when it needs to be […]

  In our last “cloud fact or fiction” post, we identified several reasons why hosting clinical and pharmacovigilance systems is just as safe as housing them on-premises. In fact, in many cases it could prove to be safer. This week we’ll briefly discuss migrating data to the cloud. 

Now that February is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in January – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 6 Trends In Life Sciences […]

  Let’s face it, relying on clinical trial participants to self-report their medication intake isn’t ideal. Lots of things can go wrong. Patients can administer medication improperly, avoid taking the medication altogether, or even claim they’ve taken the medication when, in actuality, they haven’t. While there are other means of checking whether patients are taking […]

There’s been a lot of hoopla around the NFL and their new partnership with Microsoft surrounding the Surface tablet, now deemed the official tablet of the NFL and, of course, Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson’s favorite toy. The deal, in part, outfits NFL teams with tablets to improve communication on the field, photo viewing, and […]

It’s no secret that validation can be a bear. All of that documentation and testing, the multiple phases with pesky transition gates, a million reviews and approvals…it can really slow down an IT project, which often leads to questions about why on Earth we bother with it. Well, it all traces back to rules and regulations […]

The other day, I was watching Cory Johnson interview Bryson Koehler, CTO and CIO of The Weather Company, on Bloomberg West. While the talk focused on The Weather Company’s business model, I thought several points during the discussion were quite relevant to life sciences companies. Frankly, they’re applicable to most industries. The Weather Channel, which […]

On November 13, 2014, I’ll be delivering Taking Ownership of Custom Database Roles in Oracle Clinical and RDC, a one-hour webinar that’ll cover the following topics: Reasons to create custom roles Process of creating a custom role Granting the necessary access and privileges to a new role Granting the new role to the appropriate user […]