How To Avoid Remote Site Monitoring Failures

By D’Anna Siegle, Product Marketing Manager, Florence

Remote site access, monitoring, and SDR/V are essential to mitigate COVID-19 disruptions to clinical trials in the short-term and to accelerate the research industry in the long-term.

However, one doesn’t have to look far to find failed attempts at remote site monitoring.

Florence is the largest eISF and remote site monitoring platform globally, three years running. We are the steward of over 7,200 study sites across 27 countries performing millions of actions a month. As the Product Marketing Manager for Florence, I have gained a unique view into why remote site monitoring fails, and how to ensure your strategy doesn’t.

In short, other solutions:

• Didn’t meet the research site’s needs – they were designed for the sponsor/CRO
• Didn’t start at the research site – they were extensions of sponsor/CRO products
• Never gained a critical mass of connected sites – sites did not trust the vendor to serve their best interest or protect their data

As an industry we are positioned – and poised – to get it right this time around, this article explores insights as to how to avoid these failures.