ePRO or Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes company. ePRO allows the collection of daily diaries and other patient reported information to be collected directly from the patient; this often will fall under mHealth.Medrio, Merge, and Oracle all provide EDC platforms, though all four, including Trialogics, offer other modules that relate to the conduct of clinical trials. By having a range of partners in this space, we are able to work with clients based on their study and budget- ary needs. The phase of a trial, the number of patients, amount of data points, module needs and integration, and other aspects go into the selection process of which technology would be the best fit. What has been the industry response to your business model? RM: Well, it’s an industry like no other. I guess you can say that in this line of work, those who do it right, inevitably teach. DFS Pharma attends, and presents at many confer- ences and industry events every year. Recently, we took part in a panel discussion, sponsored by Oracle Health Sciences and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, on RBM [Risk Based Monitoring] in the Cloud. Our very own Tania Sholar was a key panelist in the discussion, who focused on RBM from a data management perspective.
can imagine we’re a pretty close-knit group here. At DFS Pharma, meaningful employee connections are key to our robust working relationships. “We consider our relationship with our clients to be a real partnership, not just a paycheck.” Earlier you spoke about leveraging the individual experience of your partners in order to provide an adaptive package to your clients. Who are some of these partners and how do they help the DFS Pharma team achieve its goal? RM: I’m glad you asked. LLX is our key biostatistics and SAS [Statistical Analysis System] programming partner. Its team has proven expertise in supporting global clinical trials for companies of various sizes in the United States and in various therapeutic categories such as cardiology, oncology, rare disease, medical devices, pain, infectious diseases, neurology, allergy and immunology, endocri- nology and metabolism, as well as gastroenterology and pediatrics. Medrio, Merge (soon to be called IBM Clinical Development), Oracle, and Trialogics are all technology partners of DFS Pharma as well. Trialogics is primarily an
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