Next generation of EDCs is here - the IDC - Intelligent Data Capture. This new technology is taking care of the quality of clinical databases upfront. Initial error rates of clinical databases are around 0.1% and are by far more cost effective then the EDCs on the market. Please see details on www.gt1.org.

Intelligent DM Model
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Intelligent Data Capture / Management

Rethinking the DM Operation?

EDC currently available on the market have all a few feature in common.
Hi level of integration, complicated processes, difficult to operate, can take care of the quality of clinical data only at prohibitively high costs.

A few examples to illustrate:

In a recent bid defense for a multimillion dollar contract, Bayer expressed doubt that a Query based EDC can deliver the quality clinical data they are expecting.

A major CRO working a query based EDC study for a pharma client is facing strong dissatisfaction from the client over the quality of the clinical database.
Halfway through the study there are about 53,000 queries. At industry average of $100 per query resolution the cost for query resolution alone is around $5.3 million. Adding the costs of manual reviews needed to complete database cleaning the overall cost of cleaning a database goes easily to $10 million.
Needless to say, typical data management budgets for these types of studies is only a fraction of the $10 million cost.
How do data management operations cope with these budget – cost discrepancies? They don’t cope. The quality of the clinical database is either not there or the prohibitive cost of cleaning the database gets shifted from data management to other services provided like clinical, medical or statistics.
Claim from EDC vendors that their technology is not performing up to advertised parameters because clients do not follow processes does not make much sense. Processes are so complex and complicated that they cannot be reasonably followed.


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