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Reduced Cost and Time-to-Market for a Leading Pharmaceutical Company With Automation of Clinical Trial Process
A leading pharmaceutical company conducts over 50 sets of clinical trials a year, each trial costing anywhere between USD 350 Million and USD 600 Million. They approached MindTree to build a system that could automate many intricate aspects of the clinical trial process. MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise in the...
Tags: MindTree Consulting, Pharmaceutical Company, Clinical Trial, Automation, Healthcare
Case studies 2008-01-24
Know Your AREA!: Creating Professional SAS Graphics in Clinical Safety Data by Using the AREAS Option in PROC GPLOT
In monitoring safety data in clinical trials, visual displays of individual patient data over time (i.e. vitals and lab data) are indispensable. This paper will introduce examples of these displays for a Data Safety Monitoring Committee, using the GPLOT procedure in SAS/GRAPH. Specifically, the AREAS option in GPLOT will be...
Tags: Monitoring, Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Graphics
White papers 2007-05-14
Automatically Incorporating Repeated Changes in SAS Programming Codes in Clinical Trial Reporting
Changing SAS code is a frequent process in programming and reporting activities. When dealing with a large number of reports that need changes, copying and pasting code or manual editing of the code is not a good practice since the likelihood of making mistakes increases exponentially. Automation of the changes...
Tags: Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Programming
White papers 2007-05-14
Paragon Biomedical Secures Clinical Data Via TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System
Since 1989, Paragon Biomedical has provided clinical trials management services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, delivering highly sensitive medical data between its U.S. based headquarters in Irvine, California and its offices in the United Kingdom and India. To maintain the trust of its clients and comply with the demands of...
Tags: TippingPoint Technologies, 3Com Corp., intrusion prevention system, clinical trial, biotechnology, network, security, industry
Case studies 2006-10-20
Pharmaceutical Contract Researcher Develops Quality Electronic Data Collection for Clinical Trials
Wanting to improve customer service and productivity in its Pharmaceutical Services division, Solutia resolved to modernize its patient data gathering process while preserving traditional workflow at the clinical trial site. Solutia worked with Quilogy, a Microsoft Certified Partner, to develop a solution that uses Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 to collect...
Tags: Clinical Trial, Microsoft Corp., Solutia, Data, Healthcare
Case studies 2005-11-26
Beyond Trial Registration: A Global Trial Bank for Clinical Trial Reporting
The reporting of clinical trial results as both prose and computable data is arguably a natural progression in the development of electronic publishing. Coupled with emerging international policies on clinical trial registration, Global Trial Bank GTB offers the most advanced computable repository of trial protocol and results information to promote...
Tags: Bank, Clinical Trial, Healthcare
White papers 2005-11-01
Integrated Clinical Data With Oracle Pharmaceutical Applications
Even the largest pharmaceutical companies with extensive IT resources have struggled to produce an integrated eClinical solution. Forrester Research, in an article entitled 'Clinical Trials' EDC Endgame' states: "the market's desire for simplified integration and improved collaboration across the clinical trial process is driving EDC vendors to develop broader eClinical...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Pharmaceutical Company, Clinical Trial, Data Management, Healthcare
White papers 2005-02-01
A Collaborative Clinical Trial Protocol Writing System
Increasing complexity in medicine has caused clinical trial experts with disparate backgrounds from multiple organizations to collaborate when developing clinical trial protocols. Although many protocol-authoring tools provide computer-based decision support to assist in protocol writing, few of them provide sufficient collaboration support for a group of protocol writers. The iterative...
Tags: Clinical Trial, Protocol, Healthcare
White papers 2004-09-22
Collapse Clinical Trial Cycles by Integrating Clinical Documentation and Data for Quick and Easy Access
More than 80,000 clinical trials are conducted in the United States every year, and about 95 percent of them are still paper-based. First Consulting Group's FCG FirstDoc Clinical Trials streamlines the clinical trial process by capturing, authoring, processing and managing clinical documentation. By standardizing, controlling and securing clinical trials-related content,...
Tags: Microsoft Access, Clinical Trial, First Consulting Group, Healthcare
White papers 2004-09-01
Clinical Trial Online - Running SAS on the Web Without SAS/IntrNet
During clinical trial, it is very important for the project management to have the most recent updated clinical trial information. The best solution is dynamic access to clinical trial data: dynamic data management and dynamic data analysis. SAS System almost became a standard programming language in clinical data analysis. With...
Tags: Web, SAS System, Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, SAS/IntrNet Software, Healthcare
White papers 2004-04-14
Data Management in Analyzing Clinic Trial Data - Metadata Application
Efficiently handling Clinical Trial Data based on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium CDISC standard, the regulatory rules from U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA and electronic data submission requirements is very important for Drug Development. Effectively managing Clinical Trial data can vastly increase work efficiency and reduce the probability...
Tags: FDA, Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, Data Management, Federal Government, Healthcare, Government
White papers 2004-04-14
Federated Metadata Search Supports Pharmaceutical Firm's New Business Model
Purdue Pharma needed a better way to manage clinical trial documentation, especially after it adopted a business model in which third-party organizations conducted those trials and sent the documents to Purdue staff. The company's solution was to build a document management solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003...
Tags: Clinical Trial, Microsoft Corp., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
Case studies
Quintiles Transnational Enhances Clinical Trials Efficiency Tools for Faster Clinical Results
Formed in 1982, Quintiles Transnational is committed to improving health care systems worldwide through a wide range of professional services and solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and health industries. The company improves responsiveness to customers' needs for faster pre-marketing clinical studies. The challenge was to rationalize and accelerate clinical trials...
Tags: Quintiles Transnational Corp., Oracle Corp., Clinical Trial, Health Care, Tool, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
Case studies
Software-Plus-Services Approach Helps Solution Provider to Streamline Clinical Trials
ClinPhone, a provider of IT solutions for clinical trial management, wanted to deliver an Electronic Data Capture EDC solution that was more flexible and cost-effective than existing solutions. ClinPhone EDC uses a software-plus-services approach that combines desktop software for study design with a centralized Web site for data input and...
Tags: Solution, Streamline, Clinical Trial, Microsoft Corp., ClinPhone Electronic Data Capture, Healthcare
Case studies
Merck Optimizes A Reporting System For Clinical Trials
Technologists at Merck & Co. Inc. have developed a pilot solution with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 to optimize the creation, transmission, and collection of information associated with late stage clinical trials. InfoPath is helping expedite the creation and completion of these reports and helping improve the quality of data captured...
Tags: Microsoft InfoPath, Clinical Trial, Merck Co., Healthcare, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites
Case studies
Opera Accelerates Clinical Trial Data Collection and Expands Analytic Capabilities
Opera Srl is a Contract Research Organization CRO founded in Genoa in 1995. Opera Srl wanted to provide immediate, centralized access to anonymous documents and data on patients in clinical trials and improve performance in terms of the quality of data collected and time to data lock. The challenge was...
Tags: Opera Software, Oracle Corp., Clinical Trial, Opera Srl, Healthcare
Case studies 2008-07-01
LEO Pharma Adopts Electronic Data Capture to Streamline Clinical Trials and Regulatory Review
It takes a period of time for LEO Pharma to get access to the data with paper forms. The forms have to be picked up and shipped back to the company; and the data needs to be keyed into the clinical data management system. LEO Pharma designs and manages its...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Data Capture, Streamline, Pharmaceutical Company, Clinical Trial, Data Management, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies 2008-07-01
ICON Helps Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies Reduce Time to Market for New Drugs
Global clinical research organization ICON manages clinical trials in all major therapeutical areas throughout the entire drug development and approval process. The company wanted to eliminate dead time between each phase of the clinical trials process to help customers cut time to market for new drugs and maximize market penetration...
Tags: Biotechnology, Oracle Corp., Clinical Trial, Data Management, Healthcare
Case studies
Oracle Case Study: INC DataSpectrum
INC DataSpectrum is the data services division of INC Research, a large, global contract research organization. The company wanted to effectively organize large volumes of clinical data to speed regulatory approval process, reduce data processing cycle times, and ultimately accelerate time to market for new products. The challenge was to...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Data Capture, Clinical Trial, INC DataSpectrum, Data Management, Healthcare
Case studies
CRC Cuts Cost of Clinical Trials by 10% and Shortens Study Time by Up to 30%
Since 1989 CRC has helped pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies meet their drug development targets in a wide range of therapeutic areas. Since 1997 CRC has used Oracle Clinical, a comprehensive data management solution for integrated clinical research. Oracle Clinical captures and cleanses data contained on CRFs. By allowing clinical research...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Clinical Trial, Data Management, Healthcare, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies


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