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August 28, 2008
Invivodata Claims Third Of Market
Site Surge: ePRO Update
The Pittsburgh diary company invivodata has been dredging up facts about patient-reported outcomes.
Wednesday News
ACRO Adds Two Members
Bulletins on Averion, MichBio, Research and Markets, Amylin, ACRO, Clinilabs and ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services
ACRO Joins Effort
Standard Metrics From MCC
The three year old Metrics Champion Consortium, which helped established performance metrics for central labs and ECG, is now turning its focus to imaging and CROs.
Tuesday News
Merck Ethics Doubted
Bulletins about ProSanos, socks, PPD, FDA-CDRH, Wyeth, the Supreme Court, and Merck.
Data Accelerator
Phase Forward Touts Akamai
The firm says it’s been able to eliminate isolated latency issues for customers using its EDC system.
Monday News
Parexel Closes ClinPhone Acquisition
A few news bulletins on Good Products, Encorium Group, Biovail Corporation, PRA International, i3 and Parexel International
AAIPharma appointed Scott Neilson to COO. He has held senior operations positions in clinical research and has a broad spectrum of functional experience including finance, regulatory affairs, human resources and business development. Neilson will be responsible for AAIPharma’s global drug development services operations and report to Ludo Reynders, CEO and… more...
Phase Forward and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute won an award from CIO magazine. “Our IT organization is honored by this recognition of our work in moving to electronic data capture (EDC) for clinical trials,” said Jeffrey Kessler, chief information officer, Dana-Farber. “EDC has reduced the time to access data… more...
Clinilabs, a small Manhattan-based contract research organization (CRO), may have just positioned itself to effectively compete with more established or hulking competitors. Frustrated with the available software for processing electrocardiogram (ECG) data, Clinilabs connected with the tech company Analyzing Medical Parameters for Solutions (AMPS), also based in Manhattan, to come… more...
One curiosity of the drug safety controversies of the past few years is the low profile of most of the software companies in the niche. One could read the newspaper or your favorite business magazines and imagine that the industry didn’t have people or systems to manage and predict adverse… more...
RadPharm, an imaging CRO, appointed Steven Owens as chief information officer. “We are delighted to welcome someone of Steve’s caliber to RadPharm. This key appointment affirms our commitment to continue providing best-in-class services and technologies to current and future RadPharm clients”, said Ronald Berg, CEO. “Steve’s vast knowledge of medical… more...
The gap was glaring. And it has been filled. For the first time, more than a decade after the technology emerged, Parexel can offer customers a viable electronic data capture (EDC) solution. Last week, the Waltham, Mass. company concluded its $182 million acquisition of ClinPhone, based in Nottingham, UK. Parexel… more...
Blaine Templeman has joined the New York office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property practice group. He will head Sheppard Mullin’s new Biotech Clinical Contracting team. “Blaine adds significantly to our expertise in life sciences, an area of strategic expansion in both… more...
