Avoid Rescue Studies, Reduce Costs and Timelines & Accelerate Clinical Operations with Metrics

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Having technology which can automate or assist in the timely monitoring of trials is a huge improvement over the status quo of manual methods such as spreadsheets, which are cumbersome and erroneous, not to mention only provide a dated snapshot of trial performance.

Granular real-time metrics provide operational insights that enable sponsors to take control of their studies by being proactive instead of reactive. Sponsors should focus their resources on bottlenecks and processes ripe for optimization to drive competitive performance and operational excellence. By introducing efficient resource allocation and parallelization of operational activities, sponsors can significantly compress operational timelines, improve downstream quality and regulatory compliance, while speeding entry to market.

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Barry Milton, Head of Business Operations, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Barry Milton is a clinical trial and operations management expert. His experiences as an oncology nurse, clinical trial coordinator and his senior management roles at Novartis, Roche, Merck and AstraZeneca provide him with a well-rounded set of skills and experiences in the clinical trial space. His passion is transforming study management and trial execution processes through the creation of optimized business processes, which are supported by facilitating systems, to allow sponsor and investigator teams to meet their patient and clinical program goals faster and more efficiently.

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Ken Light, CEO and Founder, ClinScape

Ken Light is an innovator and implementer of technologies used for clinical trials. Ken has spent the past three decades overseeing technology and strategy services to the clinical and drug safety communities and has a broad perspective on current and future state tools and technologies used for clinical trials. He has worked with the majority of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, along with numerous biotech, contract research organizations, academic research centers and clinical sites. Ken presents regularly at industry conferences and webinars, and he is viewed as a thought leader around clinical technologies, data architecture and industry transformation. Ken has a passion for delivery excellence and customer satisfaction.

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Elvin Thalund, Director, Industry Strategy, Oracle Health Sciences

Elvin Thalund is a recognized industry expert in clinical trials, having over 20 years of experience working as a clinical business analyst consultant at major pharmaceutical companies including Hoffmann-La Roche and Johnson & Johnson. Elvin works as a product strategist and system architect at Oracle Health Sciences in an effort to optimize study startup. Elvin is the co-chair on the TMF Reference Model Exchange Mechanism and holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Aalborg Universitet.

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