The RoadMap to CISCO ACI – Whys and wherefores

Why CISCO ACI?? Indeed, This is still an unresolved technical question for some network engineers, managers, and even higher-ranking officials, who generally deal with CISCO products in their infrastructure; Why go for CISCO ACI? and What are the advantages of that. I’m going to accommodate these asks in the rest of this article. I believe …

Cloud-Native Observability in the Experience Economy

Cisco Launches AppDynamics Cloud to Enable the Delivery of Exceptional Digital Experiences Think about our lives over the last two years—more and more of what we do is online. We use more digital services than ever before, and hybrid work means more interaction with SaaS tools and web interfaces. We have very high expectations of …

What makes an eClinical Platform?

In the last 2 years, we have seen something like $700Million invested in clinical trial solution software companies. With only limited exceptions, a primary basis for the investment is for the creation of an enterprise platform. Companies, primarily in the Decentralized Clinical Trial space have shown some successes with point solutions and custom built apps, …

How an Effective CTMS Platform and a RBM Plan Accelerates Start-Up Success

CTMS applications are the heart of trial operations and must be interoperable with all clinical systems in order to ensure complete transparency throughout the trial process. Recent surveys found that CTMS applications are not well integrated and can slow down study execution. They are often unable to support key functions such as monitoring and issue …

Understanding Clinical trial management systems (CTMS) and their importance

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront the importance of Clinical Trials for medical treatments. To explain what they are in brief, Clinical trials are research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention. They are the primary way that researchers find out if a new treatment, …

8 Features Your CTMS Should Have

Your Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) is core to your clinical enterprise, so considering a new system is daunting. In many cases, this discussion leads to years of debate, including the most important question of all: “Do we keep what we have and invest more, or do we replace it?” Whether you are considering a …

The “Five Big Shifts”​ Coming Next to Clinical Trials

Many today are discussing how clinical trials will look differently after the pandemic. Innovative approaches that had been developed in recent years but were stalled in “experimentation” have been rapidly adopted over 2020 as pandemic counter-measures, and many organizations are now making commitments to embed these approaches into their clinical trial pipelines going forward. These …

RESOLVING THE EHR TECHNOLOGY BLAME GAME

The value-based care initiative ushered a fundamental push for healthcare providers to satisfy requirements for meaningful use incentives and HIT vendors’ to offer software focused on the interoperability of health information. At that point in time, pitfalls around the actual usability of EHRs were tolerated. Still, years later, a fragmented EHR and HIT system has …

Essential Considerations for CTMS Integrations and Data Migrations

Clinical research sites that are in the process of investigating clinical trial management system (CTMS) adoption are finding that the site CTMS space is in flux with mergers, discontinued products, and new start-ups looking to drive innovation. It can be challenging to focus on what’s important to each individual site as they evaluate the available …

Do you really need a CTMS system?

In the not too distant past, if you were running clinical trials, we would never have expected this question to be posed: “do we really need a Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS)?” You needed to have a system that would capture and report out information related to the operational progress of your trials, without question. But, …