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The Internet of Medical Things: Creating a 21st Century Experience for the Patient

Using readily available sensors, Wi-Fi connectivity and the ever growing adoption of smartphones, the IoMT is enabling healthcare professionals to solve real healthcare problems and providing deeper insight into conditions for payers and providers. Read how the IoMT can improve health outcomes for patients and ultimately reduce pressure on all healthcare stakeholders.

Curious About your Clinical Trial Data Analytics? Overcoming the Top 3 Sponsor Obstacles

Clinical trial sponsors are responsible for patient safety, trial integrity, study oversight and vendor oversight. Each of these key accountabilities hinges on data ― quality data ― but it’s often difficult to know how data and processes measure up compared to other sponsors. Read this blog post as trial leaders discuss the three most common questions related to data quality and steps you can take to reduce risks and improve data analytics.

What Do Patients Want When Interacting with eDiaries? Part 3: Humanizing eCOA Screen Designs

‘Thank you.’ Although we’ve all known the power of these two words since preschool, we sometimes overlook how important they can be in clinical development. Read this third installment to the series on patient preferences for collecting electronic clinical outcomes (eCOA), and how minor eCOA study design changes can go a long way toward improving patient engagement during clinical trials.

What Do Patients Want When Interacting with eDiaries? Part 2: Improving User Interface

Top-down or Left-right? Underline or italicize? Believe it or not, these decisions about text layout could make a difference in how patients answer electronic diaries (eDiary) in a clinical trial. In this 2nd installment to the series, “What do Patients want when Interacting with eDiaries?” we present the small changes sponsors can make to an eDiary screen layout in order to improve the patients’ experience during a clinical trial.

What Do Patients Want When Interacting with eDiaries? Part 1: Improving Study Design and Scheduling

This 3-part series explores the learnings from a survey of patient preferences regarding electronic Clinical Outcome Assessments (eCOA) in clinical trials. In this first installment, read how study design features and scheduling can help improve patients’ experiences and protocol compliance.

Multi-Program Digital Health Platforms – What Are the Benefits?

The digital health industry is enabling patients to manage their health conditions better than ever before. But how do we ensure patients remain motivated and engaged through their entire healthcare journey? Read how long-term, sustainable digital health solutions can improve health outcomes for patients, and ultimately their quality of life.

The Current State of Clinical Trial Imaging

Pharmaceutical developers are increasingly asked by regulators to include imaging analysis when evaluating clinical trial data, which adds a whole new level of risk and complexity to clinical trials. Here, we present the rationale behind the utility of image analysis software to overcome the challenges of traditional clinical trial imaging so that sponsors can leverage this technology to position their trials for success.

Clinical Trials Today ─ and Tomorrow

ERT President and CEO Jim Corrigan sat down to speak with PharmaVOICE at DIA 2017. In the interview, he discusses the risks associated with clinical trials, highlights what’s needed to clear the hurdle of paper-based data collection in clinical research, and shares where the eClinical space will be five years from now.

Optimizing Clinical Trial Sites for Peak Performance

Get insights on readily available approaches that enable trial leaders to get the most out of investigative sites and achieve significant cost, time and data quality benefits with minimal investment and disruption.

Driving Insights to Action through Improved Trial Oversight

ERT Trial Oversight Product Manager Brion Regan discusses today’s improved trial oversight solutions and the benefits they deliver.

Trends Driving the Global Adoption of eCOA Data Collection

Ron Sullivan, ERT’s Executive Vice President, eCOA answers questions about current eCOA trends and what we can expect from this valuable clinical research tool in the future.

The Evolution of Clinical Trial Imaging

Imaging in clinical trials has seen tremendous growth over the past two decades. And, imaging data is increasingly used to support the primary endpoint for some trials. Here, ERT’s VP of Imaging, Tim Kulbago, discusses the drivers behind these trends and how advanced technology is helping trial sponsors meet regulators’ growing interest in clinical trial imaging.

The Voice of Reason: Informing Healthcare Using Patient Generated Real-World Data

Real-World Data (RWD), largely generated by patients’ real-life treatment journeys, is fast becoming the new currency in healthcare. This post reviews the role RWD plays when integrated into Real-World Evidence and the advantages it offers in informing key healthcare decisions.

One Way CROs Can Outshine Their Competition

The right clinical trial management solutions allow CROs to bring sponsors up to speed briskly and with greater transparency.

Can Technology Foster Better Collaboration?

Clinical trials are reliant on the input and oversight of numerous parties, all working toward one common objective. But the processes, protocols, and tools driving studies can at times appear to be working against one another rather than as a unit. Surely better collaboration can be achieved, but how?

The Quickest Way to Save $1 Million

Over time, incremental changes to internal processes can move the needle on a clinical trial’s bottom line. Read how advanced CTMS provide significant financial and productivity gains while optimizing operations across your organization.

Using Mobile Technology to Support Patients and Complex Protocols in Clinical Studies

For clinical trials to be truly successful, adherence to protocols is essential. However, as trial designs become more complex, sponsors are seeing a worrying fall in compliance levels amongst both investigators and patients. In this post we discuss the reasons for the drop in compliance and how mobile technology can help reverse this trend.

Moving from Paper to Mobile: Validation of Mobile Electronic PRO/COA

Learn how perceptions about validated clinical research and the use of mobile devices for collecting COA data are changing.

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