Clinical Informatics News | The industry is at a turning point where it has a unique opportunity to challenge the patient engagement status quo by harnessing the untapped potential for single mobile apps to support and engage trial patients from start to finish. Bracket has developed an ePRO solution with the aim of making patients feel like “partners” in their clinical trial, rather than “data cows."

Clinical Informatics News | Bioclinica is providing a service the company hopes to be an “alternative to FedEx,” collecting, storing, screening, and distributing pristine, HIPAA-compliant image data for clinical trials through a web browser.

Clinical Informatics News | If you really want to meet patients where they are, send a team of their peers. That’s the approach of Clara Health, a company built as the “google of clinical trials”. Clara Health has mobilized its Breakthrough Crew, an ever-expanding team of over 100 patients, advocates, and caregivers that share their firsthand experiences with disease and clinical trials within their communities.

Clinical Informatics News | To support recent drug development efforts, Certara, in collaboration with the Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens (CPTR), introduced a pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic lung model for its Simcyp Population-based Simulator v16, which can predict how drugs will be dispersed in the lungs at different stages of TB infection.

Clinical Informatics News | May was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from Veeva, WCG, Charles River, and more.

Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | For decades now the complexity, cost, and duration of clinical development have been steadily increasing while profit margins for the industry have been dwindling. This crisis persists and is compounded by inefficient traditional methods of managing clinical trial quality. The ICH Good Clinical Practice Guidance Integrated Addendum (ICH E6 R2) provides a unified standard for the European Union, Japan, the United States, Canada, and Switzerland.

Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | When something new comes along, most tend to take a cautious approach, observing early adopters from afar before deciding whether to make their own investments. These next-wave adopters have a perceived benefit of proven products without the anxiety of being “the first.” In clinical research, eSource has now crossed this chasm from early adoption to mainstream criticality.