Sharp Thinking: A New Angle on Clinical Trial Management Systems

New technologies are inevitably heralded as making life simpler: streamlining tasks, eliminating steps, managing things so you don’t have to manage them. Yet the practical application of a new technology often seems to make things more complex.

Clinical trial management is a case in point. Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and sponsors are juggling increased data volume, increased data variety and the demands of risk-based monitoring, all in service of risk-based quality management (RBQM). Even though technology generates critical reports, calculating results and organizing facts, the reports themselves are often static. Someone still wrestles with the task of manually piecing together files and trial data.

These strategies are rooted in legacy methods and old thinking from the days when trial data was predominantly captured on paper. Why are software and services companies still trying to sell CROs and sponsors technology that requires manual engagement of any sort as an upgrade?

Across every industry, new technologies invite—and demand—fresh approaches to the task itself. Google Maps eliminates the need to manage paper maps, navigating between pages when you moved from one town or state to another; Waze takes that a step further by integrating information previously available only to those with CB radios. Clinical trial management software is no different. It should not simply move the same steps you took before into an online platform. It should revolutionize the steps themselves, to deliver on the promise of simplification and speed.

This webinar will explore how to think about the technological challenge from a new angle—which may even spur CROs and sponsors to rethink the technology partners they engage with.

Speakers

Joe Goodgame, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Remarque Systems

Joseph Goodgame is the founder and CTO of Remarque Systems. Joe has worked extensively in the data and information space for over 20 years and passionately believes in technology’s potential as an enabler for business needs. He has been recognized in Computer World for his cutting-edge work with building a patient analysis framework across more than 60 million patients and has been named on a number of patent applications for new and novel analysis methods.

Joe has worked in multiple industries and all aspects of data and product development with more than 16 years of experience in the life sciences. He started his career in the United Kingdom government before making the switch to industry, including developing geospatial mapping systems for utility companies and fraud detection systems in telecoms.

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Amanda Coogan, Risk-Based Monitoring Senior Product Manager, Remarque Systems

Amanda Coogan worked for 12 years at university hospitals and medical device firms supporting domestic and international studies across a range of disease states, then transitioned to the software industry. There, she serves as a consultant, subject matter expert and project manager to small and large pharma, medical device and CRO customers supporting the implementation of quality risk management and risk-based monitoring. In addition to working with customers, she provides RBQM and clinical trial operation expertise to support software product development.  

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