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...

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,...

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...

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...

Decentralization of Clinical Trials Requires Digitization of Clinical Trials

Is the Industry Wired for This Revolution? You are almost guaranteed to have heard or seen the word "decentralized" in the last year if you've been to a clinical research conference, looked at...

How Community-Based Clinical Trials Benefit Sponsors, Local Healthcare Systems, and Patients

Clinical trials could help far more patients than they currently do. So how do we expand studies to all of the patients who need them? Community-based clinical trials might be the answer.  70% of...

What do the proposed changes to UK clinical trial regulations mean for you?

by Taylor Davidson, Content Writer With special thanks to Sara Guyler, Global Regulatory Specialist After leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom passed the Medicines and Medical Devices...

What eConsent Software Does for Clinical Trial Professionals

By Andrea Bastek, PhD, Sr. Direction of Innovation at Florence and former Assoc. Director of Clinical Affairs for Abbott  82% of sponsors and 88% of research sites plan to have eConsent software...

Key Discoveries from “Innovating Inclusive Study Startup and Recruitment”: An Innovation Summit

by Beau Bruneau, Innovations Business Analyst at Florence More than 500 clinical trial professionals signed up for Florence’s February 2022 Innovation Summit, which included roundtable discussions...

What is eSource?

Ask 5 clinical trial professionals what eSource is, and you'll get 5 different answers.

Clinical Trial Diversity: Lessons Learned from a Pandemic

Sites and sponsors struggled with clinical trial diversity long before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Roughly 20% of new drugs have different effects depending on a person’s race. This makes it...

4 Key Takeaways for Sponsors and CROs from “Digitizing the Site Network”–A Fireside Chat

by Blake Adams, SVP of Marketing at Florence Missed our fireside chat about how sponsors can work remotely with sites in traditional and decentralized trials? The recording with Nimita Limaye,...

4 Key Takeaways for Research Sites from “Digitizing the Site Network”–A Fireside Chat

by Blake Adams, SVP of Marketing at Florence If you missed our fireside chat about how sites can prepare for traditional and decentralized trials with Nimita Limaye, Research Vice President at...

Remote Trial Site Monitoring Is Permanent. Now What?

If you listen, you can hear it across the industry: the job of the Clinical Research Associate (CRA) and the business of the Contract Research Organization (CRO) have permanently changed. ...