An In-Depth Look: How A Unified Clinical Environment Increases Trial Performance

By Ashley Davidson, Director, Vault Study Startup, Veeva Systems, Inc.

Over the past 15 years, sponsors and CROs have steadily adopted clinical technologies to meet specific trial needs. As a result, many organizations have ended up with multiple standalone systems for study planning and setup, site identification and activation, clinical trial management, and TMF. In a recent webinar, “Transforming Clinical Trial Operations: The Next Big Step,” 84% of attendees confirmed that they are using either manual trackers or disconnected CTMS and study start-up systems to manage trials.

Using disparate systems to manage today’s complex clinical trials, which involve hundreds of parallel or sequential tasks, can be extremely challenging. A disconnected environment often perpetuates slow and error-prone manual tasks such as an email-based communication or Microsoft Excel trackers reducing the speed and agility of the trial process. Moreover, multiple logins and user interfaces reduce the visibility and control across different trial activities and milestones.