Aggie’s Insights
We’re on a mission to learn everything there is to know about clinical research and clinical trial management. We’re sharing those insights with you. A little research, a lot of interviews, some great customer stories, and even more.
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
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...
5 Resources to Learn About Remote Monitoring for Clinical Trials
The topic of remote monitoring of clinical trials has gotten enormous attention since February of this year, as travel to clinical sites became difficult and, in some cases, impossible. Whether at conferences (virtual, of course) or on-line, ClinOps leaders are...
Q&A: Jill Heinz, Director of Clinical Research Talks Clinical Operations
Jill Heinz, Director of Clinical Research, shares her insights on clinical sites and the value of clinical operations technology.
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...
How to Assure Clinical Quality During and Post-COVID: Expert Panel Summary
Clinical trials are facing an increasing need to go virtual, and with that change comes opportunity and challenge. At the GCP Summit earlier this month, Agatha’s Head of North American Operations, Ken Lownie, hosted a panel of clinical trial experts to get their views...
Remote Monitoring and Clinical Quality Management: 5 Keys for Success
It appears that the time has arrived to get real about remote monitoring for virtual and remote clinical trials. At the recent Virtual Clinical Trials conference, I gave a talk on the role of emerging technologies in enabling virtual clinical trials. I was stunned at...
Mablink Bioscience Creates a New Class of Cancer Drugs
Jean-Guillaume Lafay created his first company when he was 17. Then he started two more. At the same time, he studied biotechnology but had to stop because his companies were doing well, and he needed to focus on them. When he was 28, he picked his studies up again,...
Software for Clinical Ops: Kill the Platform; Keep the Cannoli
I owe an apology for mangling his art to Richard S. Castellano, who improvised the famous line from the movie The Godfather. But I wanted to have a bold statement in the title about the fact that software platforms, those expensive unwieldy monoliths on which we have...