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It’s 2024, and in most clinical trials, data is still being moved from the EHR to the EDC manually – with employees reading data from one screen and typing it onto another. How did we get here?

Recent research found a correlation between the upfront time to build and release a clinical database and its impact on downstream data management processes in conducting and completing trials.

We believe that an open-source approach to a truly designed-for-purpose data-management system for clinical trials is attractive. Such a system would save money by eliminating the reliance on the ...

The exploration seeks answers to long-standing problems and challenges: clinical trial data management, such as traceability of records, protocol violation, investigational drug management ...