DIA 2010 – Innovation, Issues-Driven, Upbeat

Jul 19 | eCliniqua | The 46th Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association (DIA) held last month in Washington, D.C. sported a decidedly optimistic tone. A whole host of sessions and exhibits highlighted strategic partnerships among multiple stakeholders, the growing role of payers and comparative effectiveness research, electronic health records, continued globalization, and of course, the latest technological solutions.

A Social Approach to Patient Recruitment

Jun 7 | eCliniqua | Better use of Web 2.0 sites like Twitter, Facebook and PatientsLikeMe could be a boon for enrollment.

Quanticate Selects Oracle Argus Safety for Pharmacovigilance Database

May 17 | eCliniqua | Quanticate has selected Oracle Argus Safety as its safety database to offer comprehensive global adverse event management and reporting for its customers. 

Reforms to Help Australia Maintain its Share of Global Trials

Apr 19 | eCliniqua | Australia is in the process of reforming itself to better accommodate the clinical trials industry amidst competition from emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Study Finds ‘Operational Gap’ in Clinical Trial Portfolio Management

Feb 3 | eCliniqua | For most biopharmaceutical companies, the pressure to improve clinical trial portfolio management efficiency has arrived sooner than their operational readiness to meet the challenge. Corporate intolerance for budget variances above 5% of target is now commonplace. But widespread absence of project-level operational metrics has made it all but impossible to drive planned-to-actual spending into alignment.