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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...

Addressing the Challenge of Inaccurate and Incomplete EHRs in Clinical Research
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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...

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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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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...

Progress notes are vital to source data
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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...

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Sponsors, Funding is Tight – Be Smart with Your Money

Getting a new product to market is expensive. There are a variety of studies and research that point to a wide array of costs, but generally speaking, it costs nearly $3 billion dollars to bring a new drug to market. Yes, you read that correctly. Beyond this, the success rate of a new compound to...

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The results are in: CRAs love CRIO

Over 13,000 protocols have gone through the CRIO system, and in the vast majority of them, CRAs have used CRIO to monitor source. We’ve always heard from our sites that their CRAs love the system, but now we have proof. According to a third party survey of CRAs who have used CRIO, by a healthy...

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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...

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It’s not about DCT – Diversity Driven Clinical Trials are the Key

ASK ME ANYTHING WITH JONATHAN ANDRUS Jonathan Andrus, President & COO at CRIO, is an active thought-leader and presenter in the life sciences industry. He serves on the board and executive committee of the Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) and is co-lead with the Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance (DTRA) workstream initiative. In this...

The CRIO Model
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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...

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Leveraging eSource as a Study Manager for Remote Monitoring

Increased efficiencies Despite the myriad of additional issues caused by COVID, our study team’s efficiency dramatically increased with remote monitoring. I have long been a proponent of the potential of eSource and its advantages in clinical trials. From my experience as a CRA (Clinical Research Associate) I first wrote about eSource in November 2018, SOCRA...

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