Four Ways A Holistic Ecosystem For Clinical Trials Can Help Boost ROI

By Jennifer Duff, Zelta Clinical Trials Solutions, Merative

Clinical trials are complex and logistically cumbersome, so it’s easy to assume that the tasks and eClinical platforms supporting them must be equally challenging to manage. In fact, today’s solutions are leaner, modernized, and more user-friendly than the workhorses of the past. When companies are overly focused on one specific use case, they may assume that the tech supporting the use case must also be custom-built and costly.

That’s neither a necessary nor efficient way of deploying clinical trial solutions. To get the most out of these solutions, pharmaceutical and biotech companies should rethink their approach to clinical trial technology – shifting from a mindset of custom, siloed solutions to a broader, more holistic ecosystem of solutions that have been battle-tested across a variety of clinical trials, allowing them to be deployed faster, at a lower cost than bespoke platforms, and more able to boost ROI.

It’s a common assumption that one eClinical solutions provider can or should be able to meet a study’s every need, including custom-made capabilities. An intelligently designed, holistic ecosystem for studies allows for a wider degree of choice in selecting expert providers to support your trials.