Clinical Research Organizations
Scale to Handle Massive Volumes of Clinical Trial Data
Clinical trials are complex because they involve many touch points. A late stage clinical trial might involve several couriers, dozens of suppliers, hundreds of geographically dispersed sites or doctor’s offices, thousands of patients, and tens of thousands of invoices. Test kits containing blood, stool, or hair samples must be correlated with the appropriate trial and with billing. It is thus critical for safety and for the business that the data is accurate and that everyone has access to the same data.
For example, the CEO of an explosively growing CRO realized this when his company had to turn down a multi-million dollar deal because their infrastructure could not handle the real-time business and scale requirements. The CFO was also adamant that it was too costly to continue with "business as usual” which involved mostly manual processes. CROs need an infrastructure that can handle increased volumes, integrate in real time with clinical systems, and automate invoice reconciliation with couriers. They also need to correlate massive amounts of sample data with the appropriate clinical trial, and communicate real-time ongoing status and information to the sponsoring pharmaceutical company.
TIBCO's scalable infrastructure handles massive volumes of events and data, and integrates with systems such as SAS, Oracle Clinical, Lablink, and many others. TIBCO Business Process Management automates the real-time flow of information between partners, doctors, patients, the sponsoring pharmaceutical, and other external affiliates. TIBCO Master Data Management provides one centralized version of clinical trial data, including customers, protocols, clinical trials, billing codes, inspection information, investigator sites, lab test definition, and application translation data.
