Colin Cleary, Vice President, Strategic Solutions Although adaptive testing has been widely adopted across a variety of industries for decades, it has only recently made its way into the clinical trial space. Based on item response theory (or IRT for short… not to be confused with interactive response technology, a topic we discuss frequently here),…
This post is the fourth update in our larger series, The Art and Science of Successful eClinical Project Delivery. Read the previous posts here: eClinical Project Management, Why We Love UAT, and Customer Focus. Ask any customer about important eClinical provider attributes and nearly all of them will quickly speak to the criticality of helpdesk…
This post is the third update in our larger series, The Art and Science of Successful eClinical Project Delivery. Read our previous posts on user acceptance testing and project management. As a seasoned clinical trial professional, my guiding philosophy for project success can be summed up simply: “If you focus on the customer throughout…
How many times have you heard anyone on a clinical project team profess to love user acceptance testing (UAT)? Probably never. For many clinical research professionals, UAT is often the least anticipated event of the study start-up phase. It’s often associated with unwanted surprises or viewed as a necessary evil.
So many things impact the success of eClinical implementation. It’s a mix of broad expertise, robust technology, commitment to service, combined with flexible and often creative solutions. In short, it takes art and science to get the job done effectively. The first post in our blog series, The Art and Science of Successful eClinical…
Mark Maietta, Chief Commercial Officer YPrime wrapped up 2017 by participating in CBI’s annual eCOA conference, an event that brought experts together for two days of discussion on regulatory, quality, scientific, operational and technology-related issues. Joseph Cappelleri, Executive Director, Biostatistics, Pfizer kicked off the relevant topics and set the tone for discussion, providing an overview…
Donna Mongiello, Vice President of Strategic Solutions, YPrime Catherine Acquadro, MD; Head of Thought Leadership, Mapi Validated clinical outcome assessments (COA) that measure patient symptoms, mental state and disease progression as clinical endpoints have traditionally been developed on paper. Over the past 10 years, a steady increase in the use of electronic clinical outcome assessments…
Jaime Cook, Vice President, Technical Delivery Data governance is the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity and security of data used in an enterprise. It also encompasses the people, processes and information technology required to create a consistent and proper handling of an organizations data across the business enterprise. Data governance goes beyond IT. …
Shawn Blackburn, CEO The Idea that Started a Company. Data integration is one of the most boring topics you ever want to read about related to clinical research but everywhere I go, everyone seems to be saying the same thing about various obstacles caused by data silos. Looking back at our success over the past…
Bryan Clayton, Vice President, Strategic Solutions Regardless of whether you see mobile IRT as the next evolution, or technology that’s searching for a use case, it continues to be a hot topic of discussion among the IRT community. Last week at CBI’s annual IRT conference, I discussed situations where it would make sense to replace…
