Seven Things Your Remote Monitoring Solution Needs To Ensure Success With Study Sites

Remote site monitoring platforms are now a requirement in clinical research operations. While accelerated to mitigate COVID disruptions to site-access, the pivot to remote site access will be the new normal, with 78% of sites indicating they expect most or all monitor visits to be conducted remotely. Sponsors and CROs must quickly put a remote site monitoring strategy in place to facilitate this new reality. However, selecting the right solution creates a perfect storm for clinical operations leaders.

There are three underlying causes of this confusion in software selection for the clinical operations leader:

• Remote monitoring attempts have failed in the past with botched attempts at site portals, site document vaults, and site exchange platforms leaving sites with a bad taste when it comes to sponsor-mandated tools
• Established industry software vendors are rapidly attempting to create “tools” to solve remote monitoring that are poorly equipped and not proven in the market nor trusted by research sites
• While not new, the rapid shift requires many clin ops leaders to change their monitoring strategy and explore solutions they are not familiar with and have a limited understanding of

To help the clinical operations leader better understand solutions and ensure their study sites do not reject their remote site monitoring strategy we recommend validating software vendors against the following seven significant.