Are You Future-Ready?

Clinical trials and the technology they run on have evolved rapidly in a short period of time. For CROs, the bar has been raised for client expectations around operational insights, data currency and visibility, and predictive analytics. To adequately accommodate biopharmaceutical companies’ shift to prioritizing their core competencies, CROs need to embrace the interoperability of clinical and operational data and turn it into an asset for their clients.

As previously mentioned, traditional CTMSs were designed for keeping data within the walls of either the sponsor, the CRO, or the data provider. Today, as biopharmaceutical companies continue to generate more data and a need to ensure robust oversight, CROs and data providers need to better own their operational data by utilizing clinical trial management and oversight solutions that are built with the current times in mind. In the modern world, applying the latest technologies and leaning on future-proof solutions isn’t just a nice-to-have— it’s a necessity.

Going forward, sponsors and CROs should look to establish a cloud-based clinical trial management and oversight solution within the framework of a clinical data platform — like eClinical’s elluminate® Operational Insights. By centralizing disparate data systems, they can modernize and automate their digital data flows, all the way from collection through submission. This also takes into consideration agile or hybrid clinical trials where data collection may differ from site to site, or country to country, requiring a cloud-based solution that is adaptable for this variation of data ingestion and visualization at scale. In turn, this enables sponsors and CROs to move beyond their current data challenges and focus on optimizing their clinical trials to produce the highest-quality study submissions.

In the face of growing data streams and sources, increasingly outsourced CRO models, and agile or hybrid trials, biopharmaceutical companies face an uphill battle to streamline operational workflows. In order to empower teams to do their best work, sponsors and CROs will need to shape the future of clinical research by adopting flexible and scalable cloud-based solutions that can easily adapt and evolve for changing needs and put them in the driver’s seat of their clinical trials.

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Drug Development (CSDD); Impact Report; Jan/Feb 2018, Vol. 20 No. 1z

2 Unified Clinical Operations Survey Report; Veeva; June 2019