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Who Needs an eTMF, Anyway?

Who Needs an eTMF, Anyway?

Electronic systems for managing clinical study documentation emerged in the 1990s and have evolved through three generations. One of these applications is the electronic trial master file (eTMF). Who needs an eTMF and why use it? Read on to find out. Defining the...

Choosing an eTMF Solution? Focus on Value, Not Features

Choosing an eTMF Solution? Focus on Value, Not Features

If you are in the market for an electronic Trial Master File system (eTMF solution), it is almost certain you have made a list of requirements that leads with compliance, functionality, ease-of-use, and cost.  And if I had my way, I would stop you right there, on...

Bringing Clinical Operations Technology to the Clinical Site

Bringing Clinical Operations Technology to the Clinical Site

Sponsors and CROs have invested millions of dollars or more in automating clinical operations since the 90s. And every study they do is includes one or more clinical sites where patients are treated, and data originates. Yet, clinical sites trail behind in terms of...

4 Obstacles to Remote Monitoring

4 Obstacles to Remote Monitoring

At the Recent Clinical Quality Oversight Forum, I had a chance to give a presentation entitled “The Path to Successful Remote Monitoring (watch it on-demand).” For me, it was something of a culmination of all the research, interviews, and thinking I have done this...

eTMF Solution Implementation: Do Like Speed Racer

eTMF Solution Implementation: Do Like Speed Racer

"He's off and flyin' as he guns the car around the track He's jammin' down the pedal like he's never coming back Adventure's waitin' just ahead! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer gooooo!" Readers of a certain age will recognize the theme song to Speed...

Tohoku University Hospital Customer Story

Tohoku University Hospital Customer Story

Addressing Compliance Requirements with Agatha at Tohoku University HospitalWhen The Clinical Research Data Center at Tohoku University Hospital needed a more efficient and effective way to manage clinical and quality documents, they chose Agatha. The Clinical...