Thought Leadership

The Benefits of Translation Memory for Low-Cost Markets and Life Sciences Companies

For life sciences companies expanding into new markets and conducting global clinical trials, accurate translation is critical for effectively communicating with patients. Companies are continually looking for ways to reduce costs and turnaround times of translating extensive...

Patient Recruitment: A Critical Component Often Overlooked, Making it The Regrettable Spend

Patient recruitment (PR) is a layered, complex endeavor. It is not just placing social media advertisements, nor is it just emailing as many patients and sites as possible. It is a holistic, systematic process that can be the single biggest stumbling block of an entire study. ...

Top 10 Considerations when Implementing Machine Translation (MT)

Our checklist overviews 10 essential factors to consider when implementing MT for your life sciences content, so you can leverage the benefits of increased quality, reduced costs, and shortened turnaround times this technology offers....

5 Ways to Increase Diversity in Medical Product Development

Over the past decade, there has been a critical push for more inclusive clinical trials. Many regulatory bodies, including the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), require clinical trial data to ensure a medical product’s safety and efficacy prior to approving new treatments....

How TMF Study Owners Can Provide Better TMF Management

Successful trial master file (TMF) management requires constant and careful attention to each process, procedure, and guideline. This ensures a TMF is completely up-to-date, compliant, and ready for inspection at a moment’s notice. You know that maintaining high TMF quality is...

UBC Case Study: UBC Expedites Administration and Contact Center Response Times

TransPerfect Connect helps UBC expedite administration and call center response times....

Be Where Your Patients Are: Effective Digital Strategies For Patient Recruitment

Did you know that 15–20% of studies do not launch due to unsuccessful patient enrollment? In the past, recruiting the RIGHT patient population has been complex, expensive, and challenging, especially when it comes to rare diseases or niche requirements. Join TPT Digital’s...

Language Landscape: Latin America

As Latin America (LATAM) is becoming a key market for pharmaceutical companies, the need to connect with the patient population there has increased as well.But is translating your content from English to Spanish LATAM the right approach?As simple as this question may seem, the...

Preparing Compliant eCTD Submissions in Asia

In May 2015, the US FDA published final and binding guidance requiring submission within 24 months of certain Common Technical Documents (CTDs) in an electronic format. This was ratified in 2017 and subsequently revised in February 2020 (Rev. 7). Currently, other notifying bodies...

Interpreters Support Novartis Patient Engagement Team

TransPerfect interpreters and translation services support patient interviews to increase awareness of IRDs. ...

Enabling Diversity & Inclusion in Clinical Trials: A CRO & IRB Perspective

Diversity in clinical research is imperative to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs and medical devices for all people—and everyone in the industry is a key stakeholder. Clinical trials today still lack ethnic diversity, and to make trials more inclusive and improve...

Preparing and Publishing a Scientific Manuscript

If you’re preparing to write a scientific report for a peer-reviewed journal, it’s critical to have a detailed plan before beginning the first draft of your manuscript. Following the correct format and general guidance for manuscript writing is a good start, but there...

How to Choose and Implement a CTMS

The clinical development landscape is awash in technologies that automate everything from subject randomization (IVR/IWR) and subject study assessments and outcomes (EDC, ePRO) to trial master file (TMF) solutions.If you are like many emerging small to mid-sized biotech and...

How to Increase Your Likelihood of Scientific Publication

Writing a scientific manuscript involves considerable planning and organization to boost your chances of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Here, we show you how to develop a thorough plan to present research logically and how to avoid the common pitfalls of authorship, so...

UMotif - Empowering Patients to Drive Engagement and Adherence

Watch this presentation on how empowering patients with cloud solutions increases engagement. ...

TransPerfect’s GlobalLink Helps Top-10 Pharma Meet their EC Deadlines in More than 20 Countries

A top 10 pharma company was facing delays in EC submission deadlines for their global studies....

Lessons Learned in the Rush for a Vaccine and the Effects on Language Translation: Creating and Adapting Technologies

The rush to a vaccine has accelerated an already dynamic research process. This has led to many innovations and an evolution of procedures. The language translation industry has seen enormous stressors and has had to create and modify processes and technologies similarly. The...

How Life Sciences Companies Can Detect Adverse Events on Social Media

Pharmaceutical companies have historically relied on email correspondences, company websites, and physician hotlines as adverse event reporting channels. However, the incredibly high usage of social media means it is no longer a channel that can be ignored. Although safety...

The Summary of Safety and Clinical Performance (SSCP) for Healthcare Professionals and Patients

In 2017, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (EU) set a regulatory upgrade on medical devices to strengthen governance structure. This regulation update includes increased oversight of notified bodies, new requirements for transparency and traceability,...

ISPOR Europe 2020 Virtual Poster - Usability Testing for eCOAs

In order to ensure a fluid experience for a patient, usability testing is a critical data point to consider. Addressing both a patient’s needs and access to a digital platform is key to data collection. TransPerfect, along with our partners from Parexel, Clinical Ink, and...

5 Common eCOA Migration Issues

With so many clinical trials now using COAs on electronic platforms, the practice of “migration” (transferring and adapting COAs for electronic use) has become more common than ever. Without careful implementation, one minor deviation can compound across many languages, leading...

AI Technology Speeds Safety Case Routing

TransPerfect enables a top-10 Pharma company to reduce time to route safety cases....