CRO / Clinical
Solution Highlights
Clinical research organizations provide support to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in the form of outsourced pharmaceutical research services (for both drugs and medical devices).
During the last decades, due to pressure from the economical and regulatory sectors, the pharmaceutical industry has been looking towards receiving better statistical relevance in clinical trials.
The current industry standard for conducting clinical research trials is a case report form ("CRF"). The standard CRF is a paper questionnaire specifically used in clinical trial research. All the data on each patient participating in a clinical trial are held and/or documented in the CRF, including adverse events, side effects etc.
The main goal of a clinical trial is to obtain accurate CRFs. However, due to human errors, the data entered into CRFs is rarely completely accurate or entirely reliable.
Managing large amounts of paper data and manual inputting and processing this data is costly, time-consuming and inefficient.
EMM has developed a smartphone-based CRF (case report form) to simplify, streamline and improve data collection from the patient to the investigator. Moreover, our notifications and reporting engine focuses on improving patients’ compliance, and decreasing absenteeism and error rates.
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- Information support for visiting caregivers: PDA, iPad access to consult patient’s data, report and update medical information
- Reporting by the patient of any relevant medical information (exe: side effects reporting)
- Monitoring at distance, interconnection between EMM and medical devices (blood pressure, glycemia, etc).
- Integration of different sources: multiple caregivers may interact with the same patient. A clear management and integration of this information is possible through EMM
- Integration of multiple standards, such as HL-7 or CCR, to seamlessly integrate to and synchronize with existing infrastructure over the continuum of care