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A Simple Guide: Selecting the Right Software for Your Clinical Research Site

If you’re considering new software for your site, you’ll need a game plan. Technology is designed to make your work-life easier, but with so many options, the search for the right solution can quickly become frustrating. To start, make a list of the challenges that you would like your new solution to address, and separate...

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A Look into Alzheimer’s Research with Dr. Craig Curtis

How did you get into clinical research? During medical school, I completed several research externships and became very interested in research, but did not think of it as a career. After graduating and moving to Florida for residency, I met a local physician who was a principal investigator and owned a clinical research site.  We...

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Make Virtual Monitoring Work for You: How eSource Can Help Sponsors Monitor Virtually During Covid-19

Striving for site success and business continuity amidst our global pandemic? Virtual monitoring bypasses the need for travel, made nearly impossible with the coronavirus, and becomes a critical technological solution for the kind of business continuity that keeps the industry reliable and strong. You can turn complexity into meaningful change. In this webinar, Raymond Nomizu,...

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Chief Operating Officer of MACRO Trials Talks About How Sponsors and Sites Can Increase Inclusivity and Diversity

Achieving representative enrollment – meaning diversity in race, age, gender and socioeconomic status – in clinical trials is essential to the development of cutting-edge therapies for the general population. Despite being recognized as a need within the industry, it has proven to be a longstanding challenge. According to the 2019 ‘Drugs Trials Snapshots’ report released...

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Site Spotlight: CEO of ClinCloud Offers Insight On Running COVID-19 Trials

COVID-19 trials have quickly become the top trafficked listings. According to WCG Insights, COVID trial listings represent 15.1% of total visits in the last 6 months and has led to a decrease in interest in trials for other conditions.  Given the fluid nature of the pandemic and the increasing need for COVID treatments and vaccines,...

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Find Your New Clinical Research Coordinators at This New Innovative University Affiliated Program

Clinical research coordinators (CRCs) shoulder significant responsibility in the conduct of clinical trials — seeing back-to-back patients, processing labs, completing data entry, responding to emails, liaising with monitors — and play an incredibly important part in the research process. As clinical trial complexity increases and more emphasis is placed on data quality, the demand for...

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Our Clinical Research Site Went Through an FDA Audit

Dr. James Clark of Charlottesville Medical Research recently had an FDA inspection of his site as it is a high enroller. He did not receive a FDA Form 483, and he was using the CRIO electronic source system on the study. Learn about his experience in this Q&A session. CRIO: What’s your background? Dr. Clark:...

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Custom Reporting: CRIO’s Looker Integration

We’ve partnered with Looker, a subsidiary of Google, to provide you with the best-in-class reporting capabilities. With this partnership, we believe our clients will have the power to drive better outcomes through smarter, data driven decisions. Sort through source data, export protocol deviation logs, send weekly finance reports, and more. Create, export, and pre-schedule automated reports...

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Clinical Trials Have Largely Re-Opened, Per Clinical Research IO’s Survey

At the beginning of May 2020, many of the larger pharmaceutical companies released their first quarter financials and shared their plans to open up research amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Determined to return to near normal operations by the end of the year, sponsors said they would begin to lift enrollment holds and initiate new studies. According...

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Cytel’s COVID Trial Tracker indicates that the number of COVID clinical trials is still rapidly increasing

Since Clinical Research IO first visited Cytel’s COVID trial tracker in April 2020, the number of treatment and vaccine trials has almost tripled. To date, there are 1,751 COVID studies. Given that the speed of protocol design and study start up has drastically increased throughout the pandemic, we can expect this number to continue rising....

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Industry experts counsel on staffing models, patient recruitment and remote monitoring in the new normal

According to the latest survey by Clinical Research IO, clinical trials have largely re-opened. While we should remain optimistic about the restart, Dr. Lindsay McNair, Chief Medical Officer of WCG, reminds us that “we are not post-COVID in many ways.” Given that clinical trials will have to take place amid the ongoing pandemic, “we should...

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