Using automated detection and response technology mitigate the next Corona pandemic
What happens the day after? What happens next winter? Sure – we must find effective treatment and vaccines. Sure – we need to reduce or eliminate the need for on-site monitoring visits to hospitals in clinical trials. And sure – we need to enable patient monitoring at home. But let’s not be distracted from 3 […]
10 ways to detect people who are a threat to your clinical trial
Flaskdata.io helps Life Science CxO teams outcompete using continuous data feeds from patients, devices and investigators mixed with a slice of patient compliance automation. One of the great things about working with Israeli medical device vendors is the level of innovation, drive and abundance of smart people. It’s why we get up in the morning. […]
Competitive buzzwords in EDC companies
We recently did a presentation to a person at one of the big 4 pharma. His job title was Senior IT Project Manager Specialized in Health IT. I looked at the persons LinkedIn profile before the call and I noticed that the sentence is in past tense. Specialized in Health IT implying that he was […]
Develop project management competencies to speed up your clinical trials
The biggest barrier to shortening clinical trial data cycle times is not recruitment. It is not having a fancy UI for self-service eCRF forms design. It is not software. It is not, to paraphrase Medidata, having the ability to Run Your Entire Study On A Unified, Intelligent Platform Built On Life Science’s Largest Database. It […]
5 ways to make your clinical trials run real fast
This week, we had a few charming examples of risk management in clinical trials with several of our customers. I started thinking about what we could do to get things to run real fast and avoid some of the inevitable potholes and black swans that crop up in clinical trials. Engaged in basic science and […]
Temperature excursions and APIs to reduce study monitor work
I did a lot of local excursions the past 3 days – Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Herzliya and Haifa. For some reason, the conversations with 2 prospects had to do with refrigerators. I do not know if this is Freudian or not, considering the hot weather of July in Israel. The conversations about refrigerators had to […]
Doctor-Patient Communication – the key to success and the struggle to succeed.
Katherine Murphy, Chief Executive of the Patients Association London once said, “The huge rise in complaints in relation to communication and a lack of respect are of particular concern. Patients are not receiving the compassion, dignity and respect which they deserve.” As clinical trial technology guys, you would assume that we love code more than […]
Urban medical legends
Because I was trained as a solid-state physicist I am skeptical of many medical claims – including the efficacy of digital health apps. Gina Kolata wrote this post last week. I’ll let you decide for yourself. You might assume that standard medical advice was supported by mounds of scientific research. But researchers recently discovered that […]
What takes precedence? GCP or hospital network security?
This is a piece I wrote a while back on my medical device security blog – Cybersecurity for medical devices. One of the biggest challenge of using connected medical devices in clinical trials is near real-world usage of devices that are not commercially-ready. We have a couple of customers that are performing clinical trials of […]
Why Microsoft is evil for medical devices
Another hot day in paradise. Sunny and 34C. Not a disaster but still a PITA We just spent 2 days bug-fixing and regression-testing code that was broken by Microsoft’s June security update to Windows operating systems and Explorer 11. Most of the customers of the FlaskData EDC, ePRO, eSource and automated detection and response […]
