ePRO/eCOA Featured Articles

1. The Dream Is EHR-To-EDC — eSource Is The Wake-Up Call 9/11/2025

   EHR-to-EDC integration promises efficiency but struggles with interoperability, compliance, and site adoption. eSource emerges as the real bridge, with case studies like MSK proving it can cut setup times, boost accuracy, and lighten site workload.

2. Paving The Way For Sites To Use Their Own Tech 7/17/2025

   The DTRA has released a detailed playbook to help clinical research sites use their own validated technology in sponsor-led trials. The "Bring Your Own Technology" (BYOT) model aims to reduce tech overload at sites, improve efficiency, and preserve regulatory compliance — starting with eConsent as its first use case.

3. Feasibility/Site Selection Process Ripe For Improvement 4/1/2025

   One key to a more effective feasibility process is more transparent communications and collaboration between sponsors, CROs, and sites. Sponsors must provide clear information to each site to enable a more accurate recruitment assessment, and sites must properly digest the information to give an accurate projection. But how?

4. RTSM System Customizability Drives Personalized Medicine Trials 1/29/2025

   eClinical experts discuss supply chain management and IRT system design in clinical trials that include personalized medicine elements.

5. A Year Of Reflection And Preparation 1/3/2025

   The Trial Master File (TMF) landscape in 2025 will require companies to stay attuned to the evolving ICH E6(R3) guidelines and the full implementation of the CTIS.

6. Plodding Toward Better Data Integration & SSO 10/23/2024

   Laura Hilty, a principal at HealthX Ventures, talks about the need to better integrate data platforms and improve/enable single sign-on (SSO) solutions so sites can lessen their administrative burden.

7. Not What I Expected From A Vendor Conference 9/12/2024

   Dan Schell recounts some of his key takeaways after attending the Veeva R&D Quality Summit in Boston in September 2024. Some of the topics discussed include DCTs, eCOA, and the need to simplify tech integration at sites. 

8. The DCT Revolution Is Over… Vive La DCT Evolution! 8/29/2024

   The DCT ecosystem has matured significantly to include service providers with more real-world experience and advanced tools, plus a mindset of initiative versus reaction. Numerous regulators have released or updated DCT guidance documents in recent years, too, putting the onus on the industry to provide actionable feedback on those drafts.

9. Simplify Clinical Trial Technology With An Emerging Aggregation Platform 7/24/2024

   Sites are frequently overwhelmed with the sheer number of technologies they must work with to conduct a clinical trial, and this aggregation platform can streamline trial management.

10. Acquiring Data From The Source: The Future Of EHR-to-EDC Technology 7/23/2024

    Learn about the benefits of employing EHR-to-EDC technology in the areas of clinical research, clinical trials, and data management in this Q&A with Mariel Boyd, Senior Product Manager at Flatiron Health.