This global organization has grown quickly to 280 staff through new business and a series of strategic mergers and acquisitions. Internal systems for data management and CTMS are being evaluated to determine if they can support future growth and tight time frames when conducting studies. They selected Clinical Force CTMS reduce the time of Study Startup including collection of Regulated Documents and Contract Management during startup.
In addition, they expect to significantly improve the visit report process eliminating current cut and paste tasks with Word processing documents. They also expect to improve the Site payment process by reducing time and cost to pay the sites accurately and timely.
A financial analysis confirmed that they would pay for the system on the first study.
]]>“After a decade of use, adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets. As tighter capital budgets demand leaner alternatives, familiarity with the model increases, and interest in platform as a service and cloud computing grows,” said Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner, in a statement. “Adoption varies between and within markets, and although use is expanding to a wider range of applications and solutions, the most widespread use is still characterized by horizontal applications with common processes, among distributed virtual workforce teams and within Web 2.0 initiatives.”
“The popularity of SaaS has increased significantly within the past five years and initial concerns about security, response time, and service availability have diminished for many organizations as SaaS business and computing models have matured and adoption has become more widespread,” Mertz said.
For the full paper see Gartner on: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1406613
]]>“After a decade of use, adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets. As tighter capital budgets demand leaner alternatives, familiarity with the model increases, and interest in platform as a service and cloud computing grows,” said Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner, in a statement. “Adoption varies between and within markets, and although use is expanding to a wider range of applications and solutions, the most widespread use is still characterized by horizontal applications with common processes, among distributed virtual workforce teams and within Web 2.0 initiatives.”
“The popularity of SaaS has increased significantly within the past five years and initial concerns about security, response time, and service availability have diminished for many organizations as SaaS business and computing models have matured and adoption has become more widespread,” Mertz said.
For the full paper see Gartner on: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1406613
]]>A world leader in the development of rapid diagnostic tests and products has selected Clinical Force CTMS, to be used for all studies worldwide. The CTMS will be integrated with their current EDC partner to improve productivity for all internal studies. The divisions will use the CTMS to standardize on SOPs for the company and will be responsible for all studies conducted in the company, going forward.
The selection focused on a system that could adapt to many short term studies for medical devices, as well as large complicated studies , with the goal of reducing cost and improving efficiency, while managing 80 studies per year. They expect to pay for the system with cost savings from the site payment and visit report process.
]]>As an organization with a strategic plan to develop niche products with high value, they have elected to conduct trials internally. As a result they required a cost effective solution that could be implemented quickly to manage several scheduled trials. It was also important to select a system that had a multi-currency Clinical Payments function that could accommodate currency changes by payment.
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Release 4 adds four new modules and includes significant enhancements to the already robust release 3 modules.
These features reinforce and broaden the already well known customer benefits of the Clinical Force application which include:
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]]>The organization provides comprehensive end-to-end contract services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The range of services include end to end study management and execution in addition to Medical Writing, Pharmacovigilance, Data Management.
The CTMS will be used to support the teams in managing visit reports/monitoring reports, investigator payments and day to day execution of the study. The customer goal is to provide “Self service CTMS” access to their sponsors using the Clinical Force Sponsor Portal module. Particulary important when their main customers have +9 hour time difference
]]>The organization will use Clinical Force on two studies in the coming months. The first study will be a pilot to prepare the organization for the use of CTMS on the second, larger study which will have 1000 subjects.
Monitoring will be outsourced to CROs who will integrate their CTMS applications into Clinical Force. Where a CRO does not have a commercial CTMS then they will use Clinical Force to ensure efficient and accurate management of sites in particular Monitoring and Monitoring reports. Study tracking, Regulatory document management, budgets and Payments will be managed by the Sponsor, though the large cost savings will come from managing the Investigator Payment process. It is expected that the solution will be paid for entirely by the cost savings of not outsourcing payments on the Phase III study.
]]>The organization selected Clinical Force because of the robust CTMS functionality, the software as a service pricing/delivery and compatibility with Apple Macs. The Clinical Force subscription model means that the customer can get started with minimal upfront cost and gain a return on investment (ROI) within months. Clinical Force are able to deploy the system within a week enabling the customer to start configuring the system ready for a go live shortly after.
The CTMS will include core functionality as well as predicted recruitment, ethics, SAE’s, monitoring reports including the offline client. The initial study will serve as the proof of concept for the CTMS in the medical school, to verify the efficiency gains and cost savings.
Visit reports with the offline module will enable the team to efficiently monitor all of the sites throughout Europe. Reducing the time taken to prepare, author and follow up the monitoring visits by up to 65%.
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]]>A quarterly payment term impacts the already slim profit margins and places burden of risk on sites.
The challenge for many Sponsors and CROs will be the increased effort to manage a monthly payment cycle because they do not have efficient Payments tools or continue to use spreadsheets to manage this process. We believe this to be the greater issue than variable site performance.
Clinical Force customers continue to benefit from an efficient process reducing the effort and cost by up to 90% through using the Payments module. Learn more by clicking here:
]]>Clinical Force is expecting to integrate the CTMS to the eCRO’s intelligent Data Acquisition and Management system at a later date. This system enables multiple types of data capture (including paper and eDC). Integration to other systems will great improve visibility and also reduce the effort in running clinical Trials.
The solution will be implemented within 4 weeks and will pay for itself within 4 months of use on the first study.
]]>Stiris Research boasts best in class competencies in Project Management and Monitoring, providing partners and sponsors with dedicated expert teams and flexible SOPs . The next step in their growth model is to automate the clinical trial process by implementing a CTMS. Stiris Research successfully implemented the Clinical Force CTMS in less than 4 weeks. With Clinical Force, Stiris Research anticipates significant study cost efficiencies that it can pass on to its pharmaceutical and biotech clients.
Stiris Research believes the CTMS will further enhance Sponsors’ clinical trial experience by providing:
Stiris’ President Shantal Feltham states it was Clinical Force’s innovative implementation approach that led to the CTMS choice. “Stiris is an organization based on a team approach, commitment to service, and innovative problem solving for our clients. Clinical Force brought the same attributes to the CTMS implementation and proved to be the best fit for us and our clients. As Stiris grows, we look forward to offering our clients this expanded service while maintaining cost efficiencies.”
Keep up to date on the Stiris Research CTMS project through this webpage. Stiris CTMS Project Status
Stiris Research is an elite CRO specializing in providing unparalleled Project Management and Monitoring expertise for Phase I-IV clinical trials. Stiris provides functional service or full service clinical trial support for pharmaceutical, biotech, and device companies. We work with our clients to provide customized solutions based on individual needs and resource requirements. Stiris is a certified Woman Owned Business Enterprise through WEConnect Canada, and has been recognized as one of Canada’s top Women Entrepreneurial companies. Stiris has also been recognized as an Emerging Growth Company by Profit Magazine . www.stirisresearch.com
Clinical Force delivers a best in class Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) to Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) and Sponsors in North and South America, Europe and Africa. Clinical Force customers are successfully using the CTMS to improve their clinical trial execution, saving time and money. As the industry’s first SaaS CTMS provider, Clinical Force has the most advanced SaaS solution and the most experience implementing and supporting the SaaS model. The SaaS model benefits Clinical Force customers with rapid and simple installation and a remarkably affordable total cost of ownership. Clinical Force is a rapidly growing, privately held company with strong life science pedigree. To stay close to our customers, Clinical Force has offices in the US and Europe.
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]]>A research organization with a variety of capabilities, including health economics, marketing research, biometrics and clinical operations selects Clinical Force CTMS. This subsidiary of one of a large research and consulting firm will use CTMS to manage clinical trials as well as registries and observational studies.
This organization differentiates itself from many CROs, by offering sponsors access to interdisciplinary teams of health economists, clinicians and biostatisticians who deliver customized solutions. It is anticipated the Clinical Force CTMS will provide efficient, cost-effective delivery of these services.
]]>Gartner go on to predict that SaaS will experience a 19.4 percent compound annual growth rate through 2013. In a challenging economy, SaaS represents a leaner alternative to traditional software solutions.
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