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Enhancing Clinical Operations with Digital Signatures
Learn how digital signatures enhance clinical operations from expediting site initiation to completing site monitoring and streamlining quality, audit and compliance. Save time and money by replacing paper and routing with compliant digital signatures.

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Protecting Subjects: The IRBs Next Steps The vital role of the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to the welfare of subjects remains central to their mission. Last year, IRBs had to weather difficult scrutiny and challenges, from which they have emerged stronger. Protecting Subjects: The IRBs Next Steps offers insight into the IRB's mission, its challenges and how they prepare sponsors, CROs, sites and others to handle safety and compliance in a complex clinical trial environment.
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Trends in Subject Recruitment 2010 Subject recruitment remains one of the pivotal challenges—and high cost items in regard to trial delay—in the clinical trials process. Industry analysts’ Frost & Sullivan say subject recruitment problems will continue to dominate the industry for the next five years. Inside, MMG, Praxis, Industry Standard Reports and Medici offer their expertise on how sponsors can improve patient access and retention.
» More	Sponsored by: Industry Standard Research (ISR) Medici Global MMG Praxis


Retrospective Look at the Clinical Trials Market A look back and a look forward to the most important topics in the clinical trials industry. This supplement includes the Top 5 most-searched articles from the Applied Clinical Trials Website; an executive summary of those articles and insight from top experts on what to expect on the topic in the coming years; as well as an Industry Timeline, which pinpoints the most important developments of the clinical trials industry over the past 20 years.
» More	Sponsored by: A C R Image Metrics Amaimed Direct LTD Cenduit Cetero Research I N C Research I R B Services Perceptive Info PharmaNet Inc REGISTRAT MAPI


Patient Reported Outcomes 2010 With final guidance from FDA on Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) measures in medical product development released in December 2009, industry response was quick and positive. In addition to PRO needs in clinical trials, the patient reported outcome is an integral part of outcomes studies, registries and drug safety initiatives. This insert offers targeted information from the organizations that support sponsors in their myriad of PRO challenges to help them navigate the new PRO field from practical tips to suggestions on the best ways to collect data via ePRO.
» More	Sponsored by: Almac Group Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare ERT Exco InTouch invivodata Perceptive Infomatics Philips Respironics PHT Corporation Quality Metric Symfo

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BriefingON Document: Leveraging Clinical and Healthcare Data
In this era of post-genomic, personalized medicine, there is growing demand to integrate and leverage the mass of research and clinical data. This has enormous implications not only for the individual patient and the future of health care, but for organizations who see the value of improving diagnostic decisions and finding more rational ways to drive drug development by incorporating patient data. This Briefing On — “Leveraging Clinical and Healthcare Data” — features a collection of articles that shed light on the growing value of integrating clinical and research data, and the steps that innovators are taking to leverage those data.

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