Mary Elizabeth Williams is a journalist and an author. She is also a patient who has with metastatic melanoma who participated in a Phase 1 immunotherapy clinical trial. There is much that pharma can learn from her in terms of how companies approach clinical trials and drug development.
Clinical research has long been considered by most life science professionals to be a way to serve patients — developing novel solutions to address unmet needs. Nevertheless, these professionals have also believed a perceived firewall prevented them from directly engaging with patients, given the highly regulated environment and the attempt to homogenize control groups for the sake of research integrity. Therefore, clinical research professionals most often turned to healthcare professionals to critically assess the complex prioritization and planning of clinical research and to act as surrogates for the patient perspective.
Patient-facing digital technologies — also referred to as patient technology (PT) — have the potential to make a significant impact on the clinical research environment. PT includes any digital technology patients interact with to participate in clinical trial activities. When implemented effectively, these technologies can enhance patients’ experiences and engagement, streamline clinical trial processes, and enable better, more robust data collection in clinical trials.
Electronic consent to clinical research — “eConsent” — is a hot topic within the clinical research world as more sponsors and sites explore what solutions are available and appropriate for them. Yet many clinical trials are stuck in paper-based consent, either underutilizing the technology tools at their disposal or not using them at all. Understanding the reasons for a transition to eConsent and the hesitancies to make these changes gives insight into one of the last bastions of the clinical research industry to embrace the digital revolution.
This white paper addresses the growing interest in quality in clinical trial execution and how workflows play an essential role by building in the steps needed to comply with TMF guidelines, reducing downstream problems. This proactive strategy limits issues caused by siloes, yielding process improvements measurable by performance metrics.
This white paper focuses on defining and expanding the definition of study startup, an element of clinical trials that is gaining attention because it offers the greatest opportunity to improve quality while compressing clinical trial timelines.
The cloud has made anywhere/anytime, centralized monitoring (adaptive-on-site and off-site) of all risk-related trial factors a seamless reality. Looking ahead, the cloud can integrate centralized monitoring, risk management measures, and predictive analytics. It can also create risk repositories, to keep trial costs in check and optimize better quality results for life saving therapies.
As pharmacovigilance adopts next-generation technology by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud, new possibilities are opening up for knowledge generation – and thus value – from the data collected and processed. This paper looks at three important developments around drug safety data and their analysis and how industry is prepared for them.
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Clinical research has long been considered by most life science professionals to be a way to serve patients — developing novel solutions to address unmet needs. Nevertheless, these professionals have also believed a perceived firewall prevented them from directly engaging with patients, given the highly regulated environment and the attempt to homogenize control groups for the sake of research integrity. Therefore, clinical research professionals most often turned to healthcare professionals to critically assess the complex prioritization and planning of clinical research and to act as surrogates for the patient perspective.
Patient-facing digital technologies — also referred to as patient technology (PT) — have the potential to make a significant impact on the clinical research environment. PT includes any digital technology patients interact with to participate in clinical trial activities. When implemented effectively, these technologies can enhance patients’ experiences and engagement, streamline clinical trial processes, and enable better, more robust data collection in clinical trials.
Electronic consent to clinical research — “eConsent” — is a hot topic within the clinical research world as more sponsors and sites explore what solutions are available and appropriate for them. Yet many clinical trials are stuck in paper-based consent, either underutilizing the technology tools at their disposal or not using them at all. Understanding the reasons for a transition to eConsent and the hesitancies to make these changes gives insight into one of the last bastions of the clinical research industry to embrace the digital revolution.
What is the difference between qualification and validation? This question comes up frequently with both internal and external clients.
Clinical research has long been considered by most life science professionals to be a way to serve patients — developing novel solutions to address unmet needs. Nevertheless, these professionals have also believed a perceived firewall prevented them from directly engaging with patients, given the highly regulated environment and the attempt to homogenize control groups for the sake of research integrity. Therefore, clinical research professionals most often turned to healthcare professionals to critically assess the complex prioritization and planning of clinical research and to act as surrogates for the patient perspective.
HIV has been one of the largest public health challenges facing the world in the past few decades. Approximately 36.7 million people were infected with HIV, as reported by the World Health Organization, at the end of 2015. Despite the public attention and large population impacted by this virus, developing a cure for HIV has been particularly difficult. To successfully cure an infected individual the virus would need to be fully eradicated from their body, which is difficult because HIV is extraordinarily good at hiding in a person’s cells. In fact, part of the virus’ replication cycle is to insert itself into the host’s DNA. Once there, HIV appears to be undetectable and it can stay in the cells for the lifetime of the cell. In this state, the virus is termed “latent.”
CRAs are tasked with making sure all documentation and data is as it should be: current, compliant, and following the study protocol(s). Read how with cloud-based web and mobile eTMF solutions, CRAs can throw away their spreadsheets and experience the following process improvements.
Maintaining the appropriate storage temperature of biological material is critical for downstream use. However, due to the complexity of this material and its sensitivity to temperature we are seeing an increase in non-traditional storage temperature requests. In this article, we’ll explore some of the reasons why this is occurring and the associated challenges.
