The 20M unmet needs of clinical trials according to social media and Google
If you google unmet needs in clinical trials in clinical trials – you get 20M hits. If you google “unmet needs in clinical trials” (for an exact match on the phrase) – you get 8 hits. One of the hits is from ICON (the large Irish CRO) External Control Arms Can Increase Operational Efficiency Of […]
The last mile in clinical trials
First mover advantage for clinical trials Although the notion of same day delivery seems to be recent, in fact, competitive advantage always went to those who can move quicker. Even if they are not the first. With fast communications, there is now a relentless trend towards increasing speed. We witness this trend in almost every […]
How understanding culture reduces risk in your clinical trials
It’s during the war the Russians are waging on Ukraine and I got on a thread on a blog about why Putin is so violent. I replied that from Putin’s perspective – the US and Europeans represented an existential threat to him when they pull Ukraine into NATO and when the US pushes democracy eastwards. […]
3 ways that assure protocol compliance and data integrity in your clinical trials
In this short essay, I’ll take a closer look at how the clinical trial supply chain is evolving. There is now rapid change from traditional site-centric trials to patient-centric operations that assure data integrity and safety monitoring We’ll see how the pandemic, innovation in clinical operations models and consumer technology drive the change to patient-centric research. […]
HIPAA compliance for your clinical trials
The golden rules of HIPAA compliance for your clinical trials Flask Data provides a one-stop cloud subscription for EDC, data management and statistics. Welcome to the 21st Century – cloud, on-demand, use as much as you need and eliminate project management overheads and vendor lock-in. As Flask Data customers progress through their clinical trial journey to FDA clearance […]
If you see it in a dashboard, its too late
Thoughts on monitoring patient data and safety in clinical trials The future: tech-driven data and safety monitoring Running clinical trials with the help of tech is becoming much more prevalent, but it’s unclear if data and safety monitoring has kept up. In this essay, I discuss how patient data and safety monitoring fell behind the […]
Github – A community of practice for the clinical trial community
Encouraging a participatory culture in clinical trials Founder and CEO of flaskdata.io, Danny Lieberman wonders if the phenomenal success of the participatory code culture on GitHub can be copied to rejuvenate the clinical trial industry and break down barriers to entry and speed up product development. Like a stranger in a strange land As a physicist and […]
The roles of trust, security and privacy in clinical trials
Trust, security and privacy is a cornerstone in clinical trials pri·va·cy/ˈprīvəsē/ The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. The state of being free from public attention. When it comes to clinical data there have always been two circles of trust — the trust relationship with the PI and […]
Use ML and AI to automate clinical trial operations
I’m always curious to learn new ideas from other disciplines and apply them for my own selfish purposes. In this case – the AIOps model for providing observability in IT operations seems directly applicable to clinical trials operations. Use ML and AI to automate IT operations Gartner is the world’s leading research and advisory company for IT. […]
High-performance clinical teams speak softly
The advantages of speaking softly I started thinking about the constraints on eClinical technology for decentralized clinical trials and patient-centric product development. The best planned patient-centric trial will not succeed if the data quality is poor at the sites. When a CRA on the team is disgruntled, it is infectious. Speed and efficiency in your […]
