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Driving Digital Excellence: Delivering Seamless and Personalized Customer-Centric Experiences

The digital evolution in reaching and engaging with global communities, including sponsors, CROs, patients, and HCPs, has drastically shifted the way medical affairs teams connect with key stakeholders. As the industry pursues ways to improve a consumer and patient-centric approach, an omnichannel medical strategy is critical for continuing to drive collaboration, improve customer relations and patient trust, and disseminate and distribute medical information to global...

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Considerations and Opportunities in Capturing Oncology Patients’ PRO Data

There has been a historic lack of guidance in capturing patient data for oncology patients. Join Bill Byrom, VP and eCOA Scientist at Signant Health in conversation with Mark Wade, Global Practice Leader at TransPerfect, as they discuss: - The need for specificity of instruments to lead to greater use of PRO data in labeling claims - The impact of the draft FDA guidance to instrument selection and COA measurement strategy - The potential of item banks and augmentation of...

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Building a Successful Partnership: Meeting Sponsor Expectations

To improve clinical trial electronic system development, strong partnerships must be built and maintained between key stakeholders to establish centralized consensus and alignment for high-quality electronic data capture. Join Aaron McCormick, Associate Director, eCOA Implementation at Moderna in conversation with Mark Wade, Global Practice Leader at TransPerfect, as they dive into: - Building and maintaining Sponsor eCOA standards. - Establishing a strong working...

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Considerations for Improving the Pediatric Experience

The rare disease space presents numerous challenges for clinical research and patient data capture. These challenges are only heightened for younger patient populations, where outcome measures and dosages need to be considered appropriately. Join Dr. Elin Haf Davies, Founder & CEO of Aparito, in conversation with Mark Wade, Global Practice Leader at TransPerfect Life Sciences, as they discuss: The disparity in data capture for pediatric populations. Considerations for...

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Swimming in a Data Lake of eCOA Wearables

We all know there is a significant increase in data collected from wearable sensors, but what does that mean for eCOA? In our latest whitepaper , Mark Wade, Global Practice Leader for TransPerfect Life Sciences examines the considerations of adopting these sensors as an addition to the typical Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) tools used routinely today. What are the impacts on a study team? What are the considerations in selecting these modalities? Consumer grade vs....

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The Paper Chase - Clinical Outcome Assessments in the Digital Age

Patients are, at last, gaining a voice in healthcare. Stakeholders have come to recognize that patients have valuable information to share about their experiences with diseases and medications that should influence policy and treatment decisions. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), for example, has launched an initiative, “The Voice of the Patient,” to gather patient perspectives across specific disease areas. Information reported by clinical trial participants...

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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 pandemic has changed society profoundly. The disruption in human and business interactions have not only affected the travel, conference, and hospitality industries but has also changed the clinical...

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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 Health Psychology Research, recently published a poster at the Virtual ISPOR Europe 2020 conference that reviews the impact of moving from in-person to electronic data collection....

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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 you can overcome the chances of rejection for publication....

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A Checklist for eCOA Solution Deployment: Best Practices and Considerations

Selecting and deploying a new eCOA solution involves many important factors - from determining the capabilities of the Language Service Provider (LSP) to identifying the technology used for each COA migration - and it’s impossible not to worry about missing a key detail in the process. Download our whitepaper to learn about the eCOA landscape today, and access a checklist that walks through each of the essential factors to consider so you can be confident your eCOA...

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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. Many will say it is costly, but the cost of not doing it correctly is enormous. Download our paper to learn more about the dynamics of patient recruitment and access a checklist that can help guide...