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Posts Tagged ‘principal investigator’

Shared Investigator Platform (SIP) Strengths And Struggles

At any given time, a principal investigator (PI) can be working on one or more studies for a single sponsor company, or multiple studies for multiple sponsors. Likewise, each sponsor runs its clinical trials its own way, using its preferred technology and processes. And, often times, the technology and/or processes differ from study to study, […]

How To Improve Clinical Site Compliance With Essential Documents

Imagine with me: A site coordinator logs into your secure portal and sees a visual snapshot – perhaps a pie chart – of her site’s current compliance with your required documents. While the pie is mostly green, she sees a small slice of yellow and a sliver of red. She clicks on the red sliver […]

Life Sciences Is Not Immune To The Age Of The Customer

This is the second post in a series about applying customer experience (CX) principles to life sciences. In the first post, I discussed a critical underpinning concept for the blog series related to how “customers” are defined in life sciences. Here’s a quick recap: Since patients don’t typically buy their medications or medical devices directly […]

Applying The Concept Of Customer Experience (CX) To Life Sciences

My colleagues in Perficient Digital, Perficient’s in-house digital agency, recently published a fantastic guide about customer experience (CX). While the guide focuses primarily on retail customers, a lot of the advice it contains can be quite helpful for life sciences, so I thought I’d take a stab at translating it for you. Now, in full […]

Practical Ways To Keep Investigators Happy, Productive, And Loyal

This Thursday, July 13 @ 9 a.m. central time, my colleague (and one of my favorite people on the planet!), Param Singh, is delivering a 30-minute webinar on a really hot topic: clinical investigator retention. Trust me – this topic is worth 30 minutes of your time! What’s especially neat about this particular webinar is […]

Alleviate Payment Pains For Clinical Sites And Investigators

Imagine with me: An investigator running a site in one of your studies logs in to see an overview of his payment history. Something seems off, so he begins to review each payment in detail, and comes across what he believes to be the source of the problem – the withholding for his first payment […]

CX Methodology And Site Relationships: Duke-FDA Case Study

If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series, be forewarned that this week’s post might be a little hard to follow, as it assumes you have all of the context from the series to-date. Still, I encourage you to dive in, and I’ll do my best to connect all of the dots for […]

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 […]

What Exactly Is CX Methodology (And Why Should I Care)?

In the previous posts in this series on improving relationships with clinical sites, I discussed why it’s beneficial to think of your clinical sites as your customers so that you can use customer experience (CX) methodology to improve those relationships. In this post, I’ll explain what CX methodology is and why it matters. At its […]

Why You Need To Think Of Clinical Sites As Your Customers

Earlier this year, Duke University and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a jointly conducted study focused on principal investigator (PI) retention. After surveying 201 PIs, they confirmed the industry’s suspicion that PI turnover is a serious issue: 54.2% of respondents reported that they completed a single clinical trial and then stopped. […]

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 […]

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 […]