The system maintains and manages planning, performing and reporting functions, along with participant contact information, tracking deadlines and milestones.
The shift in the definition of "eClinical" has been a natural part of the industry’s evolution to seek better ways to utilize multiple technologies together within a clinical trial.
While individual solutions have helped to automate or streamline particular application areas, maintaining multiple systems containing overlapping data and functionality brought significant inefficiencies.
As a consequence, the pursuit of an integrated technology suite to streamline workflows and improve usability has become a key characteristic of the industry’s latest "eClinical" approach.
[8] In the early phases of clinical trials, when the number of patients and tests are small, in-house or home-grown programs are typically used to handle their data.