Evidence & Performance Blog

In September’s edition, Applied Clinical Trials has published an thorough article on computer simulation models that would have a direct benefit on patient recruitment and site selection.

You can read the article online, by clicking on this link.

This article demonstrates, once again, the specific need of pharmaceutical companies to manage their clinical trial in a cost effective and time saving way. By knowing on a daily basis what the status of the trial is, clinical trial lead and project managers will be able to take informed decision on their trial to meet the target: getting the drug to market, sooner - cheaper - but with higher quality !
This will also help upper management to have a correct big picture of all trials, compounds current running in their company, and makes them take informed decision as well !

Datatrak is highlighting ease of access to site performance metrics as a key differentiator as it launches the latest version of its platform eClinical product suite.

The latest version of eClinical suite is tracking metrics on investigative site performance in clinical trials. Read more

US-Based Phase Forward, specialized in data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety pays US$40 millions for Clarix LLC, a provider of fully Web-integrated interactive response technology (IRT). Read more

And the winner is … PAREXEL !

A couple of weeks ago we learned that Parexel has made an offer of $182 million to acquire ClinPhone, providing software to ease patient recruitment and manage clinical trial data.
Once Parexel made the offer back in June, Quintiles also got interested in the acquisition.

However Quintiles now steps back from the table and they will most likely develop in-house technology to reduce costs of trials.

It looks like Parexel can now complete the acquisition !

US-Based eClinical specialist, Datatrak is about to close its doors in Bonn, Germany, first pionner in the industry in Europe in the 90’s.
As Datatrak is now exclusively using their new EDC platform, the support service on their legacy platform has to be reduced – last trial is supposed to last till late 2009.

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ClinPhone, the world’s leading Clinical Technology Organization, will be acquired within the next couple of months.

CRO Parexel already made a $182 million bid, however Quintiles is discussing the acquisition azs well, and if they agree it will most likely be more than what Parexel offers.

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