Clinical Trial Market

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CROs

Imaging Core Lab

Vendors

EDC/ePRO
- Lists
  - Eco EDC Survey🚫
- AG Mednet
- Airon Telematica (AirTel)
- Almac Group (iTrial EDC)
- Axiom Real-Time Metrics (GO³)
- Clario (Baseline Plus)
- Clincase (clincase)
- Clinical Ink
- Clinical Trial Endpoint🚫
- Clinipace (TEMPO)
- CompleWare (WebCRF)
- Datatrak (DATATRAK eClinical)
- Datatrial (nowEDC)
- DSG (eCaseLink)
- DZS Software Solutions (ClinPlus)
- Evado
- formedix
- Forte (OnCore)
- Fortress Medical Systems (Clindex)
- Infotech Soft (Aspect)
- Instem (Alphadas)
- Kayentis
- Lincoln
- Medidata (Rave): SEC filling
- Medrio (Medrio)
- MetNet Solutions (ENLIGHTEN)
- Nextrials (Prism)
- Octogon Research Solutions (ViewPoint FUSE )
- OmniComm Systems (TrialMaster)
- Oracle Clinical
- Phoenix Software International (Entrypoint Plus)
- Prelude Dynamics (Vision)
- REDCap Consortium (RedCap)
- Studytrax (StudyTRAX)
- SigmaSoft🚫
- TENALEA🚫
- TrialStat (ClinicalAnalytics) now part of Clinsys Clinical Research
- Velos
- Veristat (Syneclin II)
- Viedoc Technologies (Viedoc)
- XClinical (Marvin)
- XML4Pharma
Randomization
- Cytel

Articles and videos

EDC/ePRO market
- Life on EDC Street🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (October 2007) ► An analysis of who are the biggest providers on the EDC market.
- Afferenz
  - Trianz Buys Afferenz — Consultants Buy Eclinical Firm🚫 (18 November 2009) ► Venkatesan Thangaraj, Afferenz president, gives some information on his product as his company is bought by Trianz.
- Almac
  - Almac Completes First Paperless Client Audit (24 February 2009) ► Almac’s auditable documentation (SOP, SDLC…) is now fully electronic.
- Akaza Research
  - No-Cost EDC Rapidly Catching On🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (2 June 2006) ► OpenClinica is getting some attention.
  - OpenClinica 2.5 Targets Industry-Sponsored Trials🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (27 October 2008) ► The new 2.5 release: improved edit-checks, query overview, faster data extraction…
  - OpenClinica Community Virtual Forum December 16th, 2008🚫 (16 December 2008) ► The minutes of the users/developers meeting.
  - Open Source EDC: answer to the Pharma challenges ?🚫 by Barbara Zwick and Ben Baumann (23 February 2009) ► A marketing speech explaining that open source is better than proprietary solutions.
  - ↪Open Source eClinical - Myths & Facts↑ (8 March 2009) ► A good answer to the previous interview: some arguments of Ben Baumann are simply impractical/ridiculous.
- BioClinica
  - Phoenix Data Systems
    - Phoenix Data sees its role as service provider growing larger by Peter Key (31 March 2006) ► The current status of PDS.
    - Bio-Imaging Technologies buys Phoenix Data Systems (25 March 2008) ► The title says it all.
    - Chris Connor to Drive Product Development at PDS🚫 (20 October 2008) ► An interview of the new PDS director of product development.
  - BIOCLINICA™ ACQUIRES CARDIONOW FROM AGFA HEALTHCARE -Adds Proven Solution for Secure, Regulatory Compliant Electronic Transmission and Analysis of Medical Images for Clinical Trials-🚫 (1 September 2009) ► The title says it all.
  - BioClinica: Why Supplies Matter🚫 (16 September 2009) ► BioClinica acquires Tourtellotte.
  - BioClinica Acquires Tourtellotte Solutions by Kevin Davies (21 September 2009) ► A shorter article on the same subject.
  - BioClinica Adds Image Transport to its Integrated Product Suite🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (16 November 2009) ► Mark Weinstein speaks about CardioNow.
  - BioClinica Acquires TranSenda International, LLC — Adds Clinical Trial Management Software With Microsoft Office Interoperability🚫 (26 March 2010) ► The title says it all.
  - BioClinica Acquires Cephalon’s U.S. Data Management Team🚫 (19 April 2010) ► The title says it all.
  - $400 Million Niche — Imaging Core Lab Nuances🚫 (3 September 2010) ► Mark Weinstein explains that technology is not the only factor, the service (having good project managers, using FedEx if the radiologist wants it…) is also important. He also speaks about the market and the difficulties for new comers.
- Cisiv
  - Interview: Dominic Farmer, Cisiv CEO🚫 by Dominic Farmer (8 July 2009) ► An interview of Cisiv’s CEO: the history and particularities of Baseline Plus, the EDC market…
- Datatrak
  - CEO Spotlight: Jeffrey Green, DATATRAK International, Inc. by Angel Mehta (2 June 2006) ► An interview of Datatrak’s CEO.
  - DATATRAK Patent #7,464,087🚫 (12 March 2009) ► A critique of Datatrack’s "Method and system of unifying data" patent.
- etrials Worldwide
  - Bio-Imaging Technologies to Acquire eTrials Worldwide🚫 (5 May 2009) ► The title of this PR says it all.
  - Etrials Purchase Would Make BioClinica Number Three EDC Player🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (8 May 2009) ► One of the numerous articles on the acquisition.
  - BioClinica to buy Etrials Worldwide🚫 (11 May 2009) ► A short analysis on the acquisition.
  - etrials Worldwide Announces Q1 2009 Results🚫 (12 May 2009) ► The title says it all.
  - Merge Healthcare Announces Definitive Agreement with etrials Worldwide🚫 (1 June 2009) ► Finally, Merge does the deal.
- flexcipio
  - eClinical Technologies perspective : Interview with a dynamic CTO🚫 by Alexandre Durand-Salmon and Vincent Wautelet (3 November 2008) ► An interview of flexcipio’s CTO who is advocating the use of standards in order to ensure interconnectivity and to avoid being locked down to a vendor. He is suggesting pharma companies to work with young innovative vendors.
- ICON
  - ICON Medical Imaging Launches New Service to Boost Reliability of Cardiology Studies — First Commercial Imaging Lab to Offer Quantitative Coronary Angiographic Analysis with Integrated eCRF (11 August 2008) ► Integration of QCA.
  - ICON Delivers New Electronic Solution to Expedite Clinical Trial Adjudication — Enables Sponsors to Comply with Recent FDA Guidance on Diabetes Trials (26 January 2009) ► Adjudication with DICOM images.
- Invivodata
  - Differentiation Via Psychometrics — Ediaries & The Z Axis🚫 (9 August 2010) ► Jean Paty claims that sponsors will need, per FDA request, to properly measure patient reported experience.
- Kayentis
  - Kayentis Makes Push into North America with EDC Alternative🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (3 November 2008) ► A short presentation of Kayentis "digital pen and paper" technology and its entry on the US market.
  - Kayentis: Back to The Future🚫 (24 November 2008) ► A similar presentation of Kayentis technology.
- Medidata
  - Wyeth Selects Medidata Rave as Its EDC Standard🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (7 November 2007) ► Medidata is becoming a more and more prominent EDC vendor.
  - Medidata Solutions Expands Clinical Trial Technology Offering with Acquisition of Fast Track Systems (17 March 2008) ► Medidata acquires FastTrack.
  - Medidata Solutions Launches Online Developer Community to Foster Collaborative Innovation (27 October 2008) ► Medidata creates a community around its Rave Web Services API.
  - Medidata Files for IPO🚫 (26 January 2009) ► The title says it all.
  - Early Trial Planning Solutions🚫 (21 June 2010) ► Medidata presents Grants Manager 3.0 and Balance, a RTSM to simulate and manage randomisations.
  - What's Our Number? — Medidata EDC Enhancements🚫 (22 October 2010) ► The new features of Grants Manager and Rave: centralised user database, planned partial SDV, evaluation of the trial complexity, NCI deal…
- Merge
  - 7 Questions For Core Labs 66 Modern Imaging Benchmarks🚫 (18 August 2010) ► Merge claims that digital image transfer and management systems, such as its own, will change the game, Imaging Core Labs may not be necessary anymore.
- OmniComm
  - OmniComm Systems buys eResearch EDC Unit🚫 (25 June 2009) ► The title says it all.
  - OmniComm Strives to be a Tier I eClinical Player🚫 by Ann Neuer (20 October 2009) ► The current status of the company.
- Oracle
  - In Conversation: Oracle’s Patti Gaves on EDC and Integration🚫 (5 October 2009) ► The status of the EDC market as seen by Patti Gaves of Oracle Health Sciences.
- Perceptive Informatics / ClinPhone
  - Perceptive Informatics Upgrades TrialWorks CTMS, DataLabs EDC🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (24 November 2008) ► New releases of TrialWorks and DataLabs.
  - Perceptive & MCC — For Imaging, Standard Metrics🚫 (24 June 2010) ► Perceptive is using Metrics Champion Consortium metrics to improve and demonstrate its quality.
- Phase Forward
  - Data Accelerator — Phase Forward Touts Akamai🚫 (18 August 2008) ► The title says it all.
  - Phase Forward Uses Akamai's Service To Speed the Web🚫 (8 September 2008) ► An analysis of the interest of Akamai for an EDC comapny.
  - Clarix IRT Becomes Property of Phase Forward🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (29 September 2008) ► Yet another acquisition of Phase Forward.
  - Paul Bleicher, M.D. - Founder and former Chairman, Phase Forward🚫 by Paul Bleicher and Kevin Davies (December 2008) ► An interview of Paul Bleicher: the current state of EDC, the past and future of Phase Forward, and his new EHR company.
  - Phase Forward Helps FDA, DoD Monitor Drug Safety🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (26 January 2009) ► Digging in the DOD health record database to analyse possible safety issues.
  - EDC Redesign — Phase Forward Makeover🚫 (23 June 2009) ► Some information about the new InForm release.
  - Phase Forward Acquisitions Push Broader Clinical Trial Solutions🚫 by Ann Neuer (17 August 2009) ► Phase Forward is buying companies in order to provide a complete clinical trial solution. It also releases a new InForm version: GTM (Global Trial Management).
  - Oracle Buys Phase Forward — Expands Oracle's Solutions for the Life Sciences and Healthcare Industries (16 April 2010) ► The title says it all.
  - Integrating InForm EDC at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute🚫 (4 May 2010) ► The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center has chosen Phase Forward solution.
- PHT
  - PHT Scales for Global ePRO Business by Updating StudyWorks🚫 by Ann Neuer (19 January 2010) ► The new StudyWorks release includes reports to manage and track devices.
- REDCap Consortium
  - REDCap: EDC for Academic Research🚫 (18 March 2010) ► An overview of REDCap, an EDC system for academic research.
- Scitek
  - Obtain Clinically Meaningful Analysis-Ready Data Sooner🚫 by John Sun (12 November 2005) ► A presentation of edc^pro 2.0.
- SigmaSoft
  - SigmaSoft and Netrics Partner to Improve Regulatory Coding Process🚫 by Ann Neuer (7 November 2007) ► SigmaSoft uses Netrics’ technology to implement fuzzy matching in the coding process.
- TrialStat / Clinsys Clinical Research
  - TrialStat: ClinicalAnalytics 4 Will Be ‘Disruptive’🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (6 December 2007) ► ClinicalAnalytics 4 is released.
  - Celtic House company in receivership🚫 (7 November 2008) ► The debt status of TrialStat.
  - Clinsys Ecstatic over TrialStat CA EDC Acquisition🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (26 January 2009) ► Clinsys acquires TrialStat ClinicalAnalytics.
- Velos
  - Velos eResearch Has Multi-Purpose Appeal to Academic Sites🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (20 October 2009) ► A description of Velos eResearch linking EDC and EMR.
Other companies
- AG Mednet
  - Phase Forward and AG Mednet Form Alliance to Develop Integrated Imaging Offering — New Offering Will Provide Capabilities to Transport, Track and Manage the Status of Clinical Trial Images from within the InForm™ ITM System, Reducing the Time and Cost Associated with Medical Image Transport (23 June 2008) ► AG MedNet gets an aliance with Phase Forward.
  - AG Mednet: Pictures, Moved🚫 (16 July 2008) ► A (rather marketing) presentation of AG MedNet solution.
  - Perceptive Informatics Establishes Alliance with AG Mednet to Bring Greater Efficiency and Quality to Medical Imaging-Based Trials — Marshall Edwards Accelerates Study Timeline and Experiences Cost Reduction through Perceptive Alliance with AG Mednet (4 February 2009) ► Perceptive is using AG Mednet’s Diagnostic Imaging Network.
  - Extracting Greater Efficiency From Clinical Trial Processes🚫 by Abraham Gutman (April 2009) ► BioImaging is using AG Mednet.
  - AG Mednet Announces Milestones In Electronic Image Submission Compliance And Broad Worldwide Adoption Of Its Network Platform — Compliance and quality assurance features and tools reduce transport costs and decrease site queries. Adaptive and Eligibility trials are finally made practical realities. (2 November 2009) ► BioImaging is using AG Mednet.
- ClearTrial
  - ClearTrial Adds Project Tracking Product to Integrated Software Suite🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (16 November 2009) ► ClearTrial Track enables the tracking of the project cost.
- Cytel
  - Cytel, FDA to Develop Software for Bayesian Device Trials🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (24 August 2009) ► Cytel signed a CRADA with the FDA in order to provide a tool to verify Bayesian trial submissions.
- Insightful
  - Insightful Makes Sharing Graphs Easier🚫 by John Russell (April 2009) ► Insightful releases iCG, a tool for sharing statistical graphs.
- Quintiles
  - Data Integration Tool — Quintiles’ Infosario System🚫 (3 August 2010) ► Quintiles has implemented a Web-based software which allows to navigate among data coming from diverse clinical trial systems (EDC, ePRO, lab…).
- Target Health
  - EDC Co-Development a Win-Win for Ferring, Target Health by Deborah Borfitz (26 May 2009) ► Target Health, a CRO, has built an EDC system in house.
Sponsors Run to goBalto.com to Size Up Service Providers🚫 by Deborah Borfitz (24 August 2009) ► A company review site for the drug development industry.