Best Clinical Trial Software Review
#1 StudyManager                                                                         
Review date: 01.02.2012

Description:

With intense competition for the best trials, and a need to track protocol progress, StudyManager enables you to increase research efficiency and job satisfaction, lowers costs. In clinical research, business intelligence means real-time access to what’s going right and what’s going wrong in a clinical trial.

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Price:

Free Demo

Advanced Features:

  • Patient visit tracking
  • Electronic data capture
  • Ability to test electronic forms
  • Study tracking across multiple clinical trials
  • Clinical monitoring management system
  • Supports full e-signature for submission
  • Compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11
  • Clinical data reports
  • Integrated CTMS and EDC
  • Pre-configured user reports
  • Study dashboard

Review:

Best of all, StudyManager allows you to easily track medical devices, study drugs and any other clinical trial supplies.
  • Enables you to quickly complete study visits. Supports unscheduled and off-protocol visits.
  • The web-based software combines clinical knowledge, quality and regulatory experience with advanced technology.
  • Tracking of drug or device distribution to sites.
  • Adverse event and nedication tracking with support for MeDRA.
  • Includes initial CRF submissions, clean CRFs, monitor site visits, subject enrollment.
  • Enables clinical study sponsors to improve the efficiency and data quality of clinical studies.
  • User-customizable fields for tracking additional study.
  • Automatic site budget creation based on the master budget.
  • In terms of functionality, Clinical Trial Management Systems gives you all this in an easy-to-use financial module.
Located in Seattle, their services include flexible remote and onsite options. Overall, the application includes practical workflow, product accountability, with site payment tracking and CDISC support.

#2 Patient Profiles                                                                      
Review date: 01.01.2012

Description:

Best practices and technology help ensure compliance and minimize disruption. Patient profiles for clinical trials enables to have customized profiles in either PDF or HTML formats. You may choose the design template that best fits your trial and describe to them how you'd like to customize it for your trial.

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Price:

From $2500

Advanced Features:

  • Version: 4.0
  • Deliverables in PDF format
  • Standard safety reporting
  • Sophisticated data visualization capabilities
  • No software installation required
  • Data aggregation and integration capabilities
  • Includes an unlimited number of users
  • Data standardization and validation

Review:

Best of all, the software can generate patient profiles from your existing clinical databases.
  • Offers 50% off the first study. Besides, discounts available for multiple studies.
  • The CRFs can be filled out either online or offline, and submitted to the clinical database.
  • Individualized displays of patient data for regulatory and safety reviews.
  • Meets FDA regulatory requirements for patient profile submissions.
  • You do not need to reformat your existing clinical trial datasets.
  • Can provide a compact overview of a patient's entire set of clinical data.
  • Patient profiles in a variety of formats such as: PDF; Web and HTML; Microsoft Word.
In today’s healthcare environment, this software enables to build clinical database and data entry forms and online study status reports (at the patient level). Designed to be flexible so you can quickly adapt to new standards.

#3 Clinical Conductor Site CTMS                                                  
Review date: 01.21.2012

Description:

CTMS solutions are used for accountability and tracking purposes. Designed for clinical research sites, Clinical Conductor enables to track for each aspect of trial execution including scheduling and patient recruitment, as well.

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Price:

Free Demo

Software Summary:

Designed to help healthcare professionals, the system manages workflow and can increase productivity.

Main Features:

  • Data-capture solutions
  • Web-based solution
  • Offers reporting and financial management
  • Compliant with 21 CFR Part 11
  • Free customer support
  • Centralized study protocols
  • Advanced decision support

Review:

  • Enables to manage complex trials.
  • Provides recruiting tools and patient scheduling.
  • This collaborative workflow system allows pro-active financial management.
  • Ability to enhance resource utilization.
  • This enterprise solution also manages internal communications and workload planning.
  • A comprehensive clinical trial management systems.
Bio-optronics is a provider of software solutions for the life sciences industry.

#4 Clinical Trial Manager                                                            
Review date: 01.22.2012

Description:

This software simplifies your healthcare information management decision by providing modular solutions and interoperable services. Moreover, it allows you to handle all aspects of clinical trial management from patient databases.

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Price:

Free Demo

Main Features:

  • Context-intelligent navigation
  • Report Export Formats
  • Cost accounting reports
  • Uses cutting edge technologies
  • Control risk by avoiding delays and costs
  • Advanced record lookup capability

Review:

  • Versatile set up accommodates SOPs.
  • Enables to custom alert notification and provide secure remote access to all study team members.
  • Allows you to keep better track and control of clinical study sites.
  • Built with Microsoft's .NET technology.
  • All study data and protocols are extended and supported throughout CTM dashboard.
  • Supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications.
  • Intuitive overview of specific site metrics across all sites for a single study.
  • offers hosting services, including via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), for all applications.
This application lets you view the actual progress and milestones of every study and site. Besides, the software enables you to increase productivity by using a single source for maintaining critical study data and documents.

#5 agClinical                                                                                  
Review date: 01.21.2012

Description:

agClinical from Aris Global performs clinical trials. Moreover, the module supports all management functions such as: CRF (Case Rport forms), patient enrollment tracking and management of deviations.

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Price:

Free Demo

Software Summary:

Offers an investigator portal dedicated to supplies accounting and study progress.

Main Features:

  • Scalable CTMS
  • Integrated to the Total Clinical suite
  • Project calendar option
  • Study history
  • Patient tracking and anlysis

Review:

A limited number of health professionals will have access to the data, and will be able to view and edit the data.
  • Offers a comprehensive access to clinical trial data.
  • Online help to protcol specific FAQs.
  • Ability to track each study document from a central location.
  • The application enables to better eliminate delays due to document approvals.
  • Delivers a wide range of clinical supplies monitoring.
  • You can view and retrive study amendments from the portal.
Thanks to its flexible integration, agClinical allows you to effectively control and track studies and tasks related to clinical trial management. Additionally, this CTMS solution can be integrated with SAP ERP financials.

#6 OpenClinica                                                                               
Review date: 01.15.2012

Description:

This freely and web-based electronic data capture and clinical data management (CDM) system allows for programmatic data interchange with other systems. Besides, OpenClinica allows study directors to configure the event definitions for each site in the study.

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Price:

Free to use

Software Summary:

Improved query workflows, with notifications and task management. Includes a streamlined user interface.

Main Features:

  • Scheduler and clinical data submission
  • Supports all types of clinical studies
  • Meets 21 CFR Part 11 requirements
  • Runs under Apache Tomcat
  • Uses an Excel template to create CRFs

Review:

Besides, as a system based on leading standards, this platform for clinical research remains the most popular open source Electronic Data Capture (EDC) application, available on the market.
  • Enables to check off which event CRFs and subjects have been verified one at a time.
  • Freely available, open source web-based software platform.
  • Allows overall system oversight, auditing by administrators.
  • Generates the HTML based forms that study data can be entered into.
Overall, this clinical trials software for electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management is designed to support regulatory guidelines such as 21 CFR Part 11.

#7 Bioclinica - Clinical Trial Manager                                            
Review date: 01.06.2012

Description:

Designed for pharmaceutical companies, this clinical trial application enables to better control your clinical study sites. The TranSenda Central system offers a suite of Web-based applications and enables to automate manual processes. Besides, this office clinical trial solution also enables to monitor patient visits and offers custom alert notification.

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Price:

Free demo

Software Summary:

Includes CRF page status and offers a basic document management.

Main Features:

  • Report delivery. Patient scheduling
  • Integrated modular software
  • CTMS solutions
  • System validation
  • Custom reporting
  • Data management
  • Software-as-a-service. SaaS option

Review:

Besides, you can connect the module to Microsoft Office SharePoint Services. Built with Microsoft’s .NET technology, it enables to reduce the need for staff to input data thanks to their remote user access portal.
  • Allows you to simplify processes to increase productivity.
  • Supports connectivity between 3rd party applications.
  • Allows overall system oversight, auditing by administrators.
  • Offers an access to centralized operational data.
Also available in an Office-based version, the program comes with a study configuration wizard that eliminate mismatched data. Easy to install, it integrates Office processes into clinical operations. Founded in 1998, the TranSenda company operates as a subsidiary of BioClinica.

2012 Best Clinical Trial software Comparisons
  • Filing, scheduling, tracking and patients identification is one of the major component of study management. This is why, clinical trial applications should facilitate these tasks.

    With today's budget constraints, they not only help you create a realistic budget for your study but also increase your productivity.

    Moreover, all clinical trials have guidelines about who can participate. They can include both interventional and observational types of studies.

    Here, we rank the best web-based clinical trial software that can be accessed from any computer anywhere so that you can focus your efforts on your research rather than on study management.

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