How to ensure patient adherence in decentralized clinical trials
Patient adherence in clinical trials without technology How can you assure patient adherence to the protocol, when you don’t see the patient? Life science companies are increasingly turning to decentralized clinical trial models. This means that patients are home alone. They use ePRO to record side effects and outcomes from the treatment. With 10X more […]
Did you wait until the last minute to choose vendors for your clinical trial?
Your dream outcome. Helping cancer patients. Doing it right. Recruiting quickly and efficiently and getting a diverse population into your study. You have noble intentions and great science. So – why are you accumulating months delay even before the first patient is recruited? There are a lot of things on the science and recruitment side, […]
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 […]
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. […]
How to measure clinical response in medical device clinical trials
It is 19:15 and daylight savings time. It is too hot to go out and run or bike. Time to write. Today we were helping a customer with hardware issues. At the end of a long day, I started thinking that even hardware issues are valuable data to the decision-making process of measuring efficacy of […]
The gap between the proletariat and Medidata (or should I say Dassault)
We need a better UX before [TLA] integration The sheer number and variety of eClinical software companies and buzzwords confuses me. There is EDC, CTMS, IWRS, IVRS, IWRS, IRT, eSource, eCOA, ePRO and a bunch of more TLAs. For the life of me I do not understand the difference between eCOA and ePRO and why […]
A structured 7 step process for risk assessment of a decentralized clinical trial
In this essay, I discuss a systematic methodology for evaluating risk in your decentralized clinical trial. This is a methodology that has proven itself in hundreds of security and privacy compliance risk assessment projects in a wide variety of healthcare, clinical and IT scenarios. It is a given that the people charged with your clinical […]
Why healthcare IoT devices need data monitoring
Use of healthcare IoT devices for sensing patient vital signs enables fast and cost-effective remote monitoring of patient safety and data quality – however the challenges start after collecting the data. Healthcare IoT for sensing patient state is not a panacea. Monitoring of data you collect in your clinical trial using healthcare IoT requires up-front […]
Assuring patient compliance to the study protocol-spending smart on monitoring
Today I want to go beyond having compelling ideas, a team and a great market opportunity and talk about what you need to successfully execute a clinical trial on your way to FDA approval. Sometimes there is nothing more powerful than the passion and vision of an entrepreneur. But passion and vision are just not […]
What makes mHealth apps flavorgasmic?
When eating food so good that you let out an involuntary moan, usually the first bite; also as an adjective – flavorgasmic. November 30, 2008 Urban Word of the Day I downloaded this unbelievable healthcare app yesterday for my iPhone that helps me monitor my father’s health remotely. I swear when I clicked the first page […]
