clinical research

Running a Site August 1, 2023 2 Minute Read

The Patient Safety Impact of Medical Record Delays in Clinical Trials

In clinical trials, patient safety is paramount. Once a subject is randomized into a clinical trial, they undergo a series of treatment procedures. Any changes in their medical status, including alterations in medication or occurrence of Adverse Events (“AEs”), need to be recorded. These changes are typically noted by site staff in a document known...

Running a Site

2 Minute Read - July 27, 2023

Addressing the Challenge of Inaccurate and Incomplete EHRs in Clinical Research

In our previous blog post, “Navigating Medical Records Acquisition in Clinical Trials,” we unpacked our solution for the time consuming process of sourcing patient medical records. In this followup, we’re addressing the challenge of inaccurate and incomplete EHRs in clinical research. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) form the backbone of healthcare data. However, when it comes...

Running a Site

2 Minute Read - July 25, 2023

Navigating Medical Records Acquisition in Clinical Trials

Navigating medical records acquisition in clinical trials is a time consuming challenge faced by clinical research sites. Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems play an integral part in this process, serving as critical repositories of patient data. Yet, the lengthy process required to access these records often complicates the patient screening process. Subsequently, this impacts enrollment...

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5 Minute Read - July 24, 2023

Increasing Diversity-Driven Clinical Trials: Dr. Lovie Negrin and Randomize Now, LLC

In this blog post, Hannah Kulkarni, Customer Success Manager II at CRIO, caught up with Dr. Lovie Negrin, founder and director of research at Randomize Now, for an insightful conversation. Together, they dissect the impact of how Dr. Lovie’s efforts are increasing diversity-driven clinical trials. Who is Dr. Lovie? Dr. Lovie Negrin is the founder...

CRIO Company News

3 Minute Read - July 19, 2023

CRIO Announces Partnership with Pluto Health to Expand and Accelerate Clinical Trial Access

Innovative solution benefits patients with access to clinical trials as a treatment option, ongoing personalized health insights, and ultimately speeding new treatments to market  BOSTON, MA, July 19, 2023 – CRIO, a Boston-based healthcare technology company, in partnership with Pluto Health, a Durham, NC-based smart care coordination service company, announces the development of a scalable...

Running a Study

3 Minute Read - June 20, 2023

Increasing Diversity in Clinical Trials: Dr. Danawi and the Arab Board for Clinical Research

In order to increase diversity in clinical trials, it is important to include voices from many different communities and roles. For this blog post, CRIO employee Stefanie Palmer sat down for a discussion with Dr. Hadi Danawi to talk about involving the Arab American community and people from Middle Eastern backgrounds in clinical research. Who...

Running a Study June 1, 2023 5 Minute Read

Progress Notes are Vital to Source Data

Progress notes are free-text entries by the investigator, coordinator or study team member that are inserted into the source record. Generally, these play a critical and highly undervalued role in the study process. Progress notes are often used to: Clarify or confirm any data points that may appear as outliers, even before a query is...

Running a Study

3 Minute Read - February 9, 2023

CRIO’s integrated eSource-EDC Model is a Game Changer

CRIO’s integrated eSource-EDC model revolutionizes both the data entry process at the site level and the monitoring process from the CRO perspective. According to a third party survey of CRAs who have used CRIO, CRAs agreed by a margin of 23:1 that this new model would increase overall trial efficiency, improve data quality, and enhance...

Running a Study

4 Minute Read - January 25, 2023

CRIO sites were nearly 30% of U.S. COV19 Vaccine Sites. What this means for eSource adoption

The daunting task of COVID-19 trials The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic posed a new challenge for sponsors. They needed to execute clinical trials at a rate that has never been accomplished before. To succeed, they needed sites that could conduct the trials at unprecedented speed. These are sites with short start-up times, existing large...

Running a Site

5 Minute Read - January 23, 2023

From standalone sites to large networks: The ongoing evolution of clinical research

In a 2019 CRIO eBook, “Scaling and Innovating: The Consolidation and Reinvention of Clinical Research Sites” we explored the emerging trend of clinical research site consolidation. Our predictions were prescient. Today, the number of institutional investors in the space has increased more than 7-fold since 2015, with no sign of abating. We at CRIO predict...

Running a Study

1 Minute Read - January 4, 2023

CRIO Reduces FDA Audit Risk by Over 70%

The FDA routinely audits clinical research sites, and some of those sites happened to use CRIO eSource on the studies in question. With our broad reach and history as the leading site-adopted eSource solution, we have now established a database of audit results that prove what we’ve known intuitively: CRIO eSource reduces audit risks for...

Running a Study

14 Minute Read - October 13, 2022

The CRIO Model: How Monitoring and Data Management Transform Using eSource/EDC vs Traditional EDC

This document describes CRIO’s integrated eSource/EDC model, in which source data is collected electronically by the site using CRIO’s eSource system, then transmitted automatically to CRIO’s Reviewer EDC module or to legacy EDC systems, which allows sponsors to review, query, code, lock and extract the data. This model unlocks significant savings for the sponsor/CRO, mainly...