Archive for September, 2011

Initiating a Social Media Plan in the Pharma Industry

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 - Filed under: The DATATRAK Blog |

Molly Gluck Interactive Media Coordinator The concept of social media has become second nature to marketers in almost every industry – except the Pharmaceutical industry. Being a social world with communication is becoming easy, more frequent and expected on a daily basis, but it is still nonexistent in most Pharmaceutical companies. The big question most [...]

Why Electronic Data Capture? Benefits for Statistics

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 - Filed under: The DATATRAK Blog |

Bill Gluck VP, Clinical and Consulting Services Electronic data capture (EDC) is not a new technology in terms of age as it has been practiced, although not widely, in the industry for more than 25 years. Early EDC applications did not have the extensive functionality to evaluate the quality of the data as the current [...]

Early Phase CDM

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 - Filed under: The DATATRAK Blog |

Bill O’Mara Clinical Data Manager In the world of Clinical Data Management (CDM) there is one aspect of the drug development process that lives a bit outside of the box – early phase trials. Clinical data managers that work in early phase trials historically have been relegated to specific groups and in some cases a [...]

DATATRAK to Present at 2011 SCDM Annual Conference

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 - Filed under: Press Releases |

CLEVELAND, [September 7] /PRNewswire/ — DATATRAK International, Inc. (OTCQX: DATA), a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today announced that Bill O’Mara, Manager of Clinical Data Management, will present at the Society for Clinical Data Management’s 2011 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, September 11-14. O’Mara will present [...]

A Risk- Based Approach to Vendor Management

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 - Filed under: The DATATRAK Blog |

Shiela McLaughlin International Director Quality Assurance In June this year, I attended DIA for the first time in Chicago, Illinois. I was asked to speak for Track 09 (Regulatory Affairs and Sciences, Quality, and GXP Compliance). The topic was on vendor management and how I believe a risk-based approach should be applied. It was unusual [...]