The Essentials 2010: What You Need in a CTMS Now!
Posted by Keith ward on Sun, Jan 31, 2010 @ 08:45 AM
Pick any sector, any endeavor, any corner of the globe you like: 2010 promises to be a challenging year.
Although somewhat insulated from economic downturns due to the long development cycles of its products, pharma is certainly not immune to the malaise gripping the globe.
Certainly, one thing seemingly unstifled by the global downturn is the increasing complexity of managing clinical trials and data associated with clinical research.
As the number of sites on trials increases, so too, do the number of patients/subjects in the trials; getting sites initiated has become a process unto itself; paying investigators, managing contractor invoices, patient/subject cohort management, all grow more complicated every day.
To keep up, you need technology that keeps up: fast, flexible, web-based apps that can track subject visits, monitor visits, documents, payments, and inventories; something with good reporting options, easy-to-use metrics, and tools that automate wherever possible to produce cross-trial and even cross-study consistency.
These are some of the essentials we think the well-prepared clinical trial manager will look for in a CTMS this year:
• To make timely decisions, you need on-demand access to current trial data.
• The faster you can deploy studies, the faster you can conclude them. Look for flexibility to match your business processes and scalability to grow in your CTMS.
• Automate. Wherever, whenever you can. Loose the spreadsheets
• Quick access to study and regulatory guidance documentation helps quickly clear up any questions lost in translation from raw data to results during clinical trials
• Facilitate communication between teams. It's one of the hidden traps slowing organizations down more than they realize. Give your teams access to global contact databases and document repositories.
• The more closely you can manage investigator payments, the more control you have over budgets and how they're spent.
• Ensure 21 CFR Part 11 compliant, role-based security. Anything less is an invitation to disaster.
• Give managers and system administrators the tools they need to control access to features and data on a project by project basis.
If you'd like to see what a CTMS system can do for you, please visit our site and learn more even arrange a short demo.
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