Posted by Keith ward on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 @ 08:51 AM
"Price is the most specific piece of information customers use to understand the nature of an offering and not providing it makes people feel lost and reduces their understanding of a product line. We have miles of videotape of users asking "Where's the price?" while tearing their hair out." - Dr. Jakob Nielson, Web Usability Expert
Are you a Pharmaceutical, Biotech or Medical Device executive charged with finding ways to improve your clinical trial process by leveraging the latest technology? Are you frustrated that you are unable to adequately compare the various vendor’s offerings, particularly when it comes to defining the total cost of ownership? Are you adverse to talking to a salesman or being put into a lead nurturing program before you know if you can really afford their product? “Budgetary Information is the #1 item of interest prospects are looking for, but can't find, when they are researching new software solutions. If you don't provide it, someone else will. “ - Stefan Tornquist, MarketingSherpa
Well, now DZS Software Solutions’, manufacturers of the ClinPlus® brand of clinical trial software, is now offering self-service budgetary pricing on their website for each of their entire suite of products. The pricing utility is completely self-service and does not involve any DZS salesperson intervention or follow-up email marketing. The system provides pricing for both lease and purchase options, various numbers of users as well as implementation, training and validation script fees. How’s that for convenience when budgeting for upcoming business process optimization?
The technology DZS employs to accomplish this is called Echoquote http://echoquote.com. With EchoQuote™, when an interested prospect is on your website, they will be able to easily request budgetary information in seconds, even for complex solutions. They choose your items, enter their information and click "Get Budget Info". If approved, the end user gets their "budgetary quote" and you immediately begin to build trust. The entire process can happen in seconds, while the prospect is still thinking about your company. Want to check it out for yourself?
Simply go to the website at www.clinplus.com and search on any of their products and look for the button below:
Posted by Keith ward on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 @ 09:10 AM
ClinPlus Report is the industry's most widely-proven, SAS®-based, statistical table and listing authoring tool for creating the highest quality statistical tables and listings from any type of clinical data.
ClinPlus Report allows you to easily produce a variety of complex FDA-ready tables and listings in New Drug Application (NDA) quality. It also produces effective statistical tables, and utilizes over 70 different statistical values across numerous SAS/STAT procedures. You can choose precision, group and class variables, sub-setting, or subtotals, and you always have the final word in controlling the appearance of the table. ClinPlus Report's extensive format control features are a tremendous asset when preparing any summary you require and producing tables and listings in any format you need.
Reports generated with ClinPlus Report promise to be consistent, of superior quality and based on your standards, even across disparate programming groups. And you will benefit from the peace-of-mind that comes in knowing the reports you deliver are produced using a validated product and are totally CDISC-compliant when included in your eventual NDA, eCTD, NeeS marketing authorization applications.
Posted by Keith ward on Tue, Dec 06, 2011 @ 01:24 PM
Whatever your mode of entry, DZS Software Solutions has a solution!
As the industry slowly moves toward site-based entry, companies are finding it necessary to support multiple modes of clinical data management, oftentimes within the same study.
Electronic data capture has promised unsurpassed productivity gains for several years now, but reality is that there are still many life science organizations, particularly emerging to mid-sized Pharma, Biotech and Medical Device sponsors, conducting paper trials.
ClinPlus Data Management supports paper-based and site-based entry with features such as role-based menus, electronic signatures, and site-based security.
In addition, ClinPlus Data Management offers:
1. Shorter term return-on-investment
2. A self-sufficiency learning curve that is much shorter than getting your staff up to speed with EDC processes
3. Less complex integration with legacy systems, projects and external systems
4. Greater latitude to adapt to different size and different phase studies
5. No need to export SAS data from within the system
6. CRF imaging techniques that facilitate side-by-side data entry
7. Full CRF tracking and query management capabilities
8. An extensive array of reporting capabilities.
If you've shopped around, and followed the technology trends you know that full EDC systems carry a hefty price tag, and often the technology support and hidden fees to keep the system running smoothly can catch up with you, making you wonder where the promised productivity is.
If you'd like to compare the ClinPlus Data Management/EDC system with others, we encourage you to use this handy tool to see the details: http://edcmarket.appspot.com/
This new version of the EDC Market Tool has been expanded to include additional features of EDC systems including Site Payments, Randomization, Inventory Tracking, Offline capability and integration with Electronic Health Records (EHR).
EDC Market is an attempt to bring together information on commercially available Electronic Data Capture systems in a way that makes it easier for potential EDC users and buyers to research the market.
Every EDC system is different and I have chosen a dozen features to try to make it possible to compare EDC systems in broad terms. The information for the survey comes from the vendors own websites and marketing materials. Capabilities may have been overlooked or given more weight that they deserve, this is a general guide only and a basis for your own research.
Posted by Keith ward on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 @ 03:17 PM
ClinPlus® Coding runs at unprecedented speed. Thousands of records are auto-coded in less than a minute and details of each coding job are permanently maintained. And the system supports all the most popular dictionaries, and can even be used to maintain your own custom dictionary! Here's a quick overview...
Buy or Lease ClinPlus Coding®, by 12/31 and SAVE 15%
With over 15 years of coding experience behind us, our latest release leverages leading-edge Microsoft.NET, SQL technology and the latest changes in MedDRA, WHO Drug (B-1, B-2 and C formats), ICD9 and ICD10 dictionary formats and evolving industry requirements, yet still retains the reliability and flexibility ClinPlus users have come to expect. Take advantage of these powerful features:
- Supports Phrase Substitution for unprecedented productivity
- Auto-Codes data in minutes, not hours
- Intuitive, task-oriented, interface (GUI)
- Easily integrates to Data Management and EDC processes
- Single implementation saves set-up time and training expense
- Codes SAS®, SQL and ORACLE data
- Supports unlimited dictionaries including MedDRA, WHO Drug (B-1, B-2 and C formats), ICD9, and ICD10 as well as custom dictionaries.
- Provides multi-level drill down to ingredients and classification
- Automatically or manually codes to a Thesaurus
- Facilitates pre-defined and custom report capability
Rather have Us Do it? Looking to Outsource?
DZS/ClinPlus also provides the following Coding Services:
- Project Coding Services from your data
- Custom Report Creation
- Integration to MedDRA, WHO Drug, ICD9 and ICD10
- Creation of Custom Dictionaries
For more information, please visit our website http://www.clinplus.com or click on the link below:
http://tinyurl.com/3o45enu
Posted by Keith ward on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 @ 01:46 PM
Part of the problem with the current clinical trial management software sector is that there are few middle ground options. On the low end, oftentimes companies try to use readily available applications like Microsoft Access or Excel to easily set up their database. But as one thing leads to another, and one database can replicate into a dozen, creating a potential for much of the data to be corrupted or lost in silos. Particularly frightening is the practice of using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to store investigator names and contact information. There's simply no way to know if a report based on a spreadsheet uses all of the data in a huge spreadsheet. If one cell or dependency is changed, the whole spreadsheet can be incorrect. While many organizations believe they have a homegrown CTMS, unfortunately, these type systems don’t provide support for multiple users, don’t maintain audit trails and can’t be validated, or even maintained properly over time. Additionally, a true CTMS provides visibility into more than one trial at a time—a limitation even the best EDC systems lack.
On the high end, many of the big three EDC/CTMS systems are expensive and not that easy to get started. Pricing usually includes a hefty set-up fee and complex fee structures based on user roles, study size and numbers of users.
The CTMS industry seems to be enjoying a renaissance of innovation, with new visibility as both sponsors and contract research organizations appreciate access to operational data that are a) not needed for regulatory purposes, b) not gathered by EDC systems and c) of high value in effective clinical trial oversight.
Enter, ClinPlus CTMS 2.0
This system offers pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) a VERY COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION
with simplified delivery under a new SaaS subscription model, in addition to traditional installed and 3rd party hosted delivery options. The system also offers enhanced functionality with site visit report authoring and review workflow, automated email notification of events and alerts, scheduled report execution with email delivery, enhanced EDC integration and improved data importing capabilities. Follow the link below for a deeper dive. http://www.clinplus.com/ctms-landing-clinplus-clinical-trial-management-system-ctms
Posted by Keith ward on Wed, Sep 28, 2011 @ 08:16 AM
The Situation: A large client had been conducting infectious disease studies worldwide for several years and had collected patient data on hundreds of patients and thousands of paper CRFs.
The Problem: Unfortunately, because the patient data was collected at a variety of sites and in different ways, the CRF data wasn’t documented or presented consistently, making efficient double key data entry difficult. The data entry forms for the studies did not follow best practices for insuring rapid data input, often requiring the staff to reference ancillary data, jump from one place on the form to another or switch from straight text entry to mouse/click check boxes. While this may seem trivial, when data entry people have to change focus or switch from one method of entry to another, or look elsewhere for information, the resulting time loss can be significant especially across data entry groups who are on a strict timeline! The client understandably asked DZS Clinical Services to provide some expertise and assistance in order to complete this project on-time and within budget.
Solution: DZS Clinical Services, with over 25 years of experience in data management and a professional team of skilled employees, assigned a Project Manager. a data managers and data entry people, who were quickly briefed on the requirements of the project and the expected timeline. Over the course of three weeks, data was entered remotely into the Clients’ system continuously from several thousand CRF pages. As the data managers became familiar with the project and some of the complexities of the data entry task emerged, improvements to the screen design were suggested for future screen design. Because of the speed with which the first phase of the project was done, the client decided to give DZS thousands more pages, more than quadrupling the original task .These additional pages were completed ahead of schedule, within budget and excellent quality.
The Future: Because the project was performed by skilled and experienced data management and data entry professionals, common bottlenecks were avoided and the project went much smoother and was completed earlier than if the client enlisted the aid of inexperienced data management and data entry staff. As a result of completing the project earlier than expected, clean data was available earlier in the process for analysis and some immediate findings as to what medications and dosages were more effective for treatment of the disease were realized. Additionally, with suggestions from DZS as to how to more efficiently prepare screens and organize fields for input, data entry in future studies will be more rapid and efficient, cost less and allow research personnel to gain earlier visibility to future data, gain competitive advantage and realize greater return on their clinical research investment.
About DZS: DZS Clinical (
www.dzs.com) is a full-service data management and biostatistics-focused CRO located in Bound Brook, NJ. We utilize our state-of-the-art clinical software to optimize data and information flow and report presentation. With very low employee turnover, we maintain a highly experienced and dedicated team of data managers, statistical programmers, medical writers and other clinical and biostatistics professionals who operate as a team and are familiar with client needs.
Posted by Keith ward on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 @ 01:13 PM
Clinical Trial Technology Leader to Preview New Web-based EDC and CTMS Product Capabilities
Bound Brook, NJ, September 1, 2011 – DZS Software Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of ClinPlus® clinical trial software and service solutions (www.clinplus.com), today announced its plans for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM), taking place September 11-14 in Baltimore, Maryland. The SCDM Annual Conference is the world's largest education event for clinical data managers and related professionals, attracting approximately 650 attendees from across North America and around the world.
DZS will spotlight several major new product releases for their data management, electronic data capture (EDC), coding and clinical trial management systems (CTMS) which broaden their already existing trial software capabilities in capture, management and reporting of clinical, operational and safety data.
ClinPlus EDC® is an all inclusive, ASP .NET system that represents a three year effort by DZS to deliver a more flexible, lower cost alternative solution to larger EDC systems. ClinPlus CTMS 2.0 offers pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) simplified delivery under a new SaaS subscription model in addition to traditional installed and 3rd party hosted delivery options. ClinPlus CTMS 2.0 offers enhanced functionality with site visit report authoring and review workflow, automated email notification of events and alerts, scheduled report execution with email delivery, enhanced EDC integration and improved data importing capabilities.
These new product releases reflect DZS’s ongoing focus on improving clinical trial productivity and leveraging new web-based technologies that increase the value of trial data and improve the quality of that data to support regulatory approval for new compounds, biologics and medical devices. DZS/ClinPlus will host booth demos (Booth #317) to showcase the capabilities and interoperability between these latest clinical technologies.
For more information, please email: salesandmarketing@clinplus.com or visit http://www.clinplus.com
About DZS Software Solutions, Inc.
DZS Software Solutions, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1996 providing clinical trials software for clinical data management and analysis to the biotech and pharmaceutical industry worldwide. Over 50 clients globally presently use ClinPlus® software for data collection and capture, data cleansing, coding, analysis, clinical trial management and reporting. When the software is coupled with DZS services and training, many ClinPlus clients have dramatically improved productivity and maximized the value of clinical research investments and gained a competitive advantage to get medicines and products to market faster.
The ClinPlus® Software Solutions Suite for Clinical Trials provides premium tools required by pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations (CROs), biotechs, and medical device manufacturers to expedite clinical trials and meet the strict data formatting requirements of the FDA and other global regulatory agencies.
Posted by Keith ward on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 @ 01:46 PM
Growing complexity of clinical trials, increased focus on data accuracy and cost is driving the market for CTMS to almost $2 Billion in the next few years.
Bound Brook, NJ – July 15, 2011- DZS Software Solutions Inc., a clinical research software organization focused on clinical trials and developers of the ClinPlus® brand of products announced today the launch of a CTMS CRO Program. The program provides access to DZS’s SaaS-based ClinPlus CTMS on a month-to-month subscription basis as well as installed or hosted delivery with a nominal set-up and training fee.
If a sponsor contracts with a clinical research organization (CRO) to run a trial on the sponsor’s behalf, the sponsor will most likely be looking for controls from the CRO. A CRO needs a tool that increases efficiency, productivity, capability, performance, and internal communication, as well as communication with the sponsor. A tool that helps decrease manpower, and administrative overhead also helps decrease associated costs. These benefits, in turn, can be passed on to a sponsor, giving the CRO a competitive edge.
DZS developed ClinPlus CTMS in response to the industry’s need for an affordable yet, highly-configurable and feature rich clinical trial management software. This program offers small and medium-sized CROs a tailored and proven clinical trial technology solution to include in their service offering.
By providing this more comprehensive CTMS service offering to their pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device clients using ClinPlus technology, CROs can compete more effectively with larger, full-service CROs, while still maintaining their own unique level of specialized service. “Smaller, more specialized CROs typically do not have the financial resources to invest in multiple, sophisticated clinical software applications, particularly if they are actively providing the detailed type of service that won the business in the first place. DZS recognizes this and has created a program to enable CROs to, easily and cost effectively, augment their core strengths with DZS/ClinPlus software, and increase their revenue as a result,” says VP of Product Development, Bob Borysko.
ClinPlus CTMS can be configured to track, measure and report on virtually every aspect of a clinical trial or study program. The relational database at the heart of the CTMS groups, analyzes and filters clinical trial operations information at various levels including, among others, trial, country, site, investigator, product, clinical research associate (CRA), etc.
As a result, the ClinPlus CTMS provides a view of trial management data suited to a variety of individuals within the organization, including high-level, consolidated metrics for senior managers, allowing them to view the progress of multiple studies and compare protocols in order to optimize future studies.
Joining the CRO Program does not require any capital investment, and among other benefits, partner CROs will receive preferred pricing on ClinPlus software and ancillary services, as well as joint sales and marketing resources from DZS.
Keith Ward, Director of Global Marketing for DZS Software Solutions, explains, "Our program is unique in that this offering is exclusively for small-to-mid sized CROs because they can benefit the most from adopting our technology platform, and they tend to be flexible enough to adjust their processes and take full advantage of what the CTMS technology has to offer.
To speak to a product expert or a personalized demonstration, please contact sales&marketing@clinplus.com or follow this link to request specific information or pricing:
http://tiny.cc/gzfyw
About DZS Software Solutions, Inc.
DZS Software Solutions, Inc. (www.clinplus.com) is a privately held company founded in 1996 providing clinical trials software for clinical data management and analysis to the biotech and pharmaceutical industry worldwide. Over 50 clients globally presently use ClinPlus® software for data collection and capture, data cleansing, coding, analysis, clinical trial management and reporting. When the software is coupled with DZS services and training, many ClinPlus clients have dramatically improved productivity and maximized the value of clinical research investments and gained a competitive advantage to get medicines and products to market faster.
The ClinPlus® Software Solutions Suite for Clinical Trials provides premium tools required by pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations (CROs), biotechs, and medical device manufacturers to expedite clinical trials and meet the strict data formatting requirements of the FDA and other global regulatory agencies.
The ClinPlus® Software Solutions Suite’s unmatched cost-of-entry, scalability, flexible delivery options and exceptional training and support have gained DZS a reputation for delivering exacting quality and helping clients achieve early visibility to reliable clinical data. DZS software engineers possess decades of statistical analysis, clinical data management, clinical project management, and ADE/Drug coding and table/list/report building experience. This real-world experience is incorporated into every ClinPlus® system design and is evident in the reliability and enhanced features found in every system!
Keith W. Ward
Director of Global Marketing
DZS Software Solutions, Inc.
1661 Route 22 West,
Bound Brook, NJ 08805-1258
Office: (732) 764-6969 Ext: 129
Fax: (732) 764-6755
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Posted by Keith ward on Thu, Jun 30, 2011 @ 07:58 AM
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Posted by Keith ward on Thu, May 26, 2011 @ 10:38 AM
GBI Research's research, "Lifesciences IT - 2011 Yearbook" provides key data, information and analysis on Lifesciences \IT that is being implemented by pharmaceutical companies.
GBI Research expects that information technology (IT) in the lifesciences industry will become a trendsetter, helping pharmaceutical companies mitigate current and evolving industry challenges. IT solutions utilized in the value chain of pharmaceutical companies help them to operate effectively and efficiently. GBI expects an increase in the adoption of IT by pharmaceutical companies looking to remain competitive in the market place.
The Lifesciences industry is pressurized by various challenges such as declining Return on Investment (ROI) on R&D investments, entry of generics and layoffs. These factors are responsible for the lifesciences companies to invest in information technology solutions. Pharmaceutical companies have found that experimental techniques are costly, time-consuming, and involve the use of large numbers of animals for testing and are adapting to computerized combinatorial chemistry applications. Pharmaceutical Companies are increasingly adopting e-clinical trial solutions in the drug development phase. Cutting down clinical trial cost is the driving motivation for the adoption of e-clinical trial solutions. Services offered by IT companies in clinical data management are costly but have been proved to save cost for the companies in the long run. CTMS and EDC will attract the highest investments in the future followed by data mining, electronic submission tools and RFID. Outsourcing helps a pharmaceutical company to reduce costs by 30-35% and this is one of the main reasons why pharmaceutical companies outsource non-core R&D operational work to IT companies. When selecting a country to outsource clinical data management work, building the required competencies to tackle client requirements has gained a higher importance than the cost advantage it provides. The predictive analytics helps a company view beyond the sales volume in to real time prescribing patterns, as a behavior of continuum. This also helps the company to follow the evolving niche buster model. Many pharmaceutical companies have increased satisfaction levels from their customers in 2008. In 2004, 50% of the physicians were satisfied on the current number of calls. However, satisfaction levels have increased in 2008 with more than 57% of the physicians in the US satisfied with the current number of calls. The increase in satisfaction levels was directly proportional to the decrease of sales force in the US.
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