Articles by Mathini Ilancheran
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Use Of Wearable And Sensor Applications In Clinical Trials Is Booming
10/26/2021
Experts predict 50% of clinical trials will incorporate wearables and sensors by 2025, compared to the 10 to 15% at present. This article shares market research on the use of wearables and sensors in clinical trials, including smartwatches, ingestible sensor-embedded pills, and more.
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Decentralized Trials: Trends & Technology Propelling Home Healthcare Services
6/15/2021
Moving some trial site activities into patients’ homes has been shown to increase recruitment by 60% or more, and it typically maintains patient retention at over 90%. This article delves into research regarding trends and technology enabling decentralized trials.
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The Asia-Pacific Region: A Hot Spot For Clinical Trials
3/2/2021
The Asia-Pacific region has become the hot spot for conducting clinical trials. Why? There is an ease of regulatory compliance, a low cost of conducting studies, a growing patient population, and the presence of a few top clinical institutions acting as sites.
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COVID-19's Impact On The Clinical Trial Ancillary Supplies Industry
9/24/2020
With restrictions on logistics, and countries implementing new restrictions to address increasing COVID-19 cases, it’s important to understand how to manage clinical trials’ ancillary supplies — like sourcing from the right suppliers, managing distribution to all trial sites, stock management, and response to new regulations.
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Digital Platforms For Patient Engagement In Clinical Trials — Trends & Outlook
2/14/2019
Pharmaceutical companies have three targeted users: physicians, pharmacists, and patients. Various digital platforms are used to create a good customer experience for educating these end users. The core focus is on patients driving patient care, education, and adherence.
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An Introduction To Financial Benchmarking In Biopharma Clinical Development
10/16/2018
The high cost and failure rate of new drug candidates going through clinical trials are well documented and a recurring subject of research both by industry and academia.1 Further, the cost of drug development is a debated topic, and there is no consensus on what the “true cost” is because of the different methods used for these calculations.2 The lack of adequate comparable cost data and value measures also makes it difficult for pharmaceutical sponsors and trial sites to implement financial benchmarking for planning, costing, and budget management.
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An Analysis Of Clinical Development Benchmarking Practices
4/3/2018
Pharma companies use performance and competitive benchmarking to identify opportunities during their drug development cycle. The benchmarks are aimed at finding ways to make improvements in cost savings, lead time reduction (faster drug to market), and quality of services.
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Analyzing The Top Clinical Trial Outsourcing Trends Of 2017
12/28/2017
In 2017, clinical development services did not witness any significant changes in terms of price index, input cost, and supply-demand gap in comparison to 2016. However, market competition increased, with the supply market seeing continuous mergers and acquisitions, resulting in consolidation and CROs competing for market share in terms of enhanced therapeutic area expertise, geographic reach, full-service capability, technology, and increased functional capability.
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Measuring The Impact Of Reforms On India's Clinical Trial Environment
10/12/2017
The clinical trial environment in India has seen a downward trend since 2013, when the government approached the Supreme Court regarding the death of 2,644 volunteers during clinical trials over seven years.
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Clinical Investigator Payment Best Practices
9/11/2017
Managing the investigator payment is one of the most challenging aspects of running a clinical trial. Major factors considered by pharmaceutical and biotech companies for investigator payments are therapeutic area of interest, duration of the trial, clinical phase, and patient enrollment.