How to get digital health apps to work together – the power of simplicity
Sunrise off the coast of the Dead Sea in Israel We are using too many buzzwords to defeat SARS-COV-2 I thought about buzz-words last night. My wife is now a compulsive news watcher. Personally — TV news and papers bother me from getting productive work done at our clinical data startup flaskdata.io — accelerating clinical trials for […]
The LA Freeway model of clinical monitoring
A freeway paradigm helps explain why onsite visits by study monitors don’t work and helps us plan and implement an effective system for protocol compliance monitoring of all sites, all data, all the time that saves time and money. But first – let’s consider some special aspects of clinical trial data: Clinical trial data is highly dimensional data. Clinical […]
How to swim in the cold water of decentralized clinical trials
(The water in the pool in Cascais in October was < 12 degrees) There are over 135 COVID-19 vaccine candidates in the pipeline at the time of writing this post – June 20, 2020. Although there are always personal, political and emotional preferences, we should probably not select a clinical data management platform like we […]
3 things to do before you spend money on a HIPAA consultant for your clinical trial
Flaskdata specializes in same data data and safety solutions for clinical trials. Flaskdata is a technology company specializing in clinical datamanagement and monitoring. We are accomplished at providing our customers with the most effective way to achieve high quality clinical dataand assure patient safety. There is no single solution that works for everyclinical trial. We work […]
Hack back the user interface for clinical trials
As part of my campaign for site-coordinator and study-monitor centric clinical trials; we first need to understand how to exploit a vulnerability in human psychology. As a security analyst, this is the way I look at things – exploits of vulnerabilities. In 2007, B.J. Fogg, founder and director of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab taught a […]
A better tomorrow for clinical trials
A better tomorrow – Times of crisis usher in new mindsets By David Laxer. Spoken from the heart. In these trying days, as we adjust to new routines and discover new things about ourselves daily, we are also reminded that the human spirit is stronger than any pandemic and we have survived worse. And because we […]
7 tips for an agile healthtech startup
It’s a time when we are all remote-workers. Startups looking for new ways to add value to customers. Large pharmas looking for ways to innovate without breaking the system. To quote Bill Gates from 25 years ago. Gates was asked how Microsoft can compete in enterprise software when they only had business-unit capabilities. Gates was […]
Streaming clinical trials in a post-Corona future
Last week, I wrote about using automated detection and response technology to mitigate the next Corona pandemic. Today – we’ll take a closer look at how streaming data fits into virtual clinical trials. Streaming – not just for Netflix Streaming real-time data and automated digital monitoring is not a foreign idea to people quarantined at […]
So what’s wrong with 1990s EDC systems?
Make no doubt about it, the EDC systems of 2020 are using a 1990’s design. (OK – granted, there are some innovators out there like ClinPal with their patient-centric trial approach but the vast majority of today’s EDC systems, from Omnicomm to Oracle to Medidata to Medrio are using a 1990’s design. Even the West […]
I love being a CRA, but the role as it exists today is obsolete.
I think that COVID-19 will be the death knell for on-site monitoring visits and SDV. Predictions for 2020 and the next generation of clinical research – mobile EDC for sites, patients and device integration that just works. I’m neither a clinical quality nor a management consultant. I cannot tell a CRO not to bill […]
