Managing The Expansion of Clinical Trial Data Sources

Recently, many of the largest biopharmaceutical companies worldwide have gotten interested in modernizing their technology infrastructures and data management processes for clinical research, said Raj Indupuri, CEO at eClinical Solutions, a provider of cloud-based software for clinical data services. The practical realities of operating during COVID-19, as well as pressure from governments and patients, are prompting a reconsideration of technology needs. Remote patient monitoring has become critical to clinical research, as well as the need to integrate an ever-growing number of primary data sources into data management systems for analysis.

The problem with data management systems, said Indupuri, is that the increase in data sources “disrupts the traditional data review...