Monday 16 January 2012

Electronic Data capture in the Clinical Trial


The constant quest for the pharmacy companies to develop new drugs biologist and products to market has created a stressful environment around these industries to meet the workflow deadlines. The companies now believe that progress of the clinical trial can quicken by integrating the advanced technology like electronic data processing EDC. For the clinical trials to adapt to the new technology, certain modifications become mandatory in the clinical trial process.  The process work flow of the clinical trial has to be redefined to adapt the technology, EDC. The functionalists of the three main groups in the clinical trial the Investigator site, clinical monitors and clinical data managers has to be redefined in order to utilize the benefits of EDC to full. These Electronic data capture based clinical trials offer operational and cost effective approaches in data entry management solutions, identify errors in the clinical trial data management and determine the status of the clinical trial data. Implementation of EDC in the clinical trial should be decided before the enrollment of the first patient in the clinical trial.

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