How “frontier sites” and hybrid clinical trials can help research sites

The number of clinical trials has increased rapidly since 2020. 2021 saw a 14% increase in trial starts over 2020 and a 19% increase over 2019. And while 2020 was far from a typical year, the...

Technology Can Help Sites and Sponsors Prepare for the Rapid Growth of Clinical Trials

The number of new clinical trials is expected to increase 5.8% each year from 2022 to 2030. But research sites already struggle to keep up with trial workloads. With 1,015 new trials starting in...

Tips for a successful clinical research software implementation

It’s clear that remote work is here to stay. For industries like healthcare that have historically relied on in-person interactions and paper-based records, this means implementing new digital...

How eConsent Can Help Legally Authorized Representatives in Clinical Trials

A legally authorized representative (LAR) has a vital role to play in clinical trials, yet clinical trial software vendors too often forget to think about LARs and their needs.  Most clinical...

Battling Turnover with Clinical Trial Career Development

By Andrea Bastek, PhD, Senior Director of Innovation at Florence Whether you’re a Clinical Research Associate, Research Assistant, or Clinical Research Coordinator, working in the clinical trial...

How to Reduce Operational Costs of Clinical Trials in Uncertain Economic Conditions

Clinical trials can’t avoid fluctuating economic conditions. Changes in the market can especially impact emerging and early-stage biotech companies with limited cash reserves. A clinical trial's...

Too Many Trials, Too Few CRAs: Closing the Capacity Gap in Clinical Trials

The clinical trial industry has experienced 5.8% annual growth year over year–but the growth in Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) and research sites isn’t keeping up.  To accommodate the number...

What does a modern Clinical Research Coordinator do, and how can technology help?

Clinical Research Coordinators (CRCs) play a crucial role in the success of research sites. With a wide range of responsibilities, the CRC is the “heart” of a clinical trial—the champion of the...

FDA Guidance for Diversity in Clinical Trials: What You Need to Know

The FDA’s newest guidance, “Diversity Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Populations in Clinical Trials,” took the clinical research world by...

How Multinational Clinical Trials in the EU Can Benefit from Technology

Multinational clinical trials play an essential role in the European Union. In 2019 alone, Europe hosted 2,900 multinational trials. This was the second-highest number of clinical trials for any...

5 Tips for Successful Decentralized Clinical Trials

Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) –trials that don’t take place exclusively at major sites–have quickly grown in popularity. 89% of sponsors use DCT methods in some of their studies, and so do...

9 Facts to Know About ICH E8(R1)

In October 2021, an event took place that the world had waited 25 years for: ICH E8 released its first revision. (Okay, maybe the world hadn’t been waiting—but the clinical research world had...

4 Ways Tech Can Help with Investigator-Initiated Trials

By Taylor Davidson, Content Writer With special insights from Catherine Gregor, Chief Clinical Trials Officer, and Lauren Martin, Sr. Director of Customer Experience Investigator-initiated trials...

Why Sites Must Own the eISF

Tell me if this sounds familiar: a sponsor needs remote access to their sites, so they buy electronic Investigator Site Files (eISFs) and distribute them to their sites. Now the sponsor has...

4 Trends in Clinical Research You Need to Know About from ACRP 2022

Wondering what’s next in the world of clinical research? Catherine Gregor, Florence’s Chief Clinical Trial Officer and the former Director of Clinical Research Administration at Vanderbilt,...

6 Events You Won’t Want to Miss at ACRP 2022

How Digital Connections Can Create a Positive Patient Experience in Clinical Trials

Patient experience in clinical trials is a problem. On patient satisfaction surveys, clinical trials received low scores similar to the scores of Internet service providers, utility companies, and...

How the New EU Clinical Trials Regulation Will Impact Sites and Sponsors

The Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR) for the EU took effect on 31 January 2022. Sites and sponsors must now embrace the new regulations to successfully run clinical trials across the European...

Why Sponsors and CROs Are Investing in Electronic Investigator Site Files for Their Sites in 2022

The first three months of 2022 have seen a 3x uptick over the first three months of 2021 in clinical trial sponsors and CROs contacting Florence about deploying Electronic Investigator Site Files...