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...

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...

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,...

New Year, New You? Using Change Management for Digital Clinical Trial Transformations

By Rachelle Stover, MPH, CCMP With the start of a new year, both people and organizations begin thinking about change. Perhaps there’s a new technology or software your clinical trial organization...

FAQ for the FDA’s New Guidance on Digital Health Technologies

89% of sponsors now embrace decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). With DCTs becoming commonplace, sites, sponsors and CROs have turned to the FDA for guidance on how to use clinical trial...

Are Clinical Trial Teams Prepared for ICH E6(R3)?

ICH E6(R2), the current global standard for good clinical practice (GCP), went through an update in 2016–and it’s already undergoing another major revision. With how quickly changes are happening,...

How Tech is Changing the Role of a Clinical Research Associate

The role of a Clinical Research Associate (CRA) changed dramatically during the pandemic. 76% of CRAs did most of their monitoring visits remotely in 2020, up from just 18% in 2019. And technology...

Becoming a Digital Contract Research Organization

The New Standard for CROs 80% of sponsors and Contract Research Organizations (CROs) expect study start-up, recruitment, consenting, source data collection, and monitoring to be mostly digital by...

How Cybersecurity Protects Participants in Clinical Trials

How Cybersecurity Protects Participants in Clinical Trials Special thanks to Zack Wilkinson, Information Security Manager at Florence, for his contributions to this article.  Cybersecurity in...

How Clinical Trial Technology Can Help Contract Research Organizations

Contract research organizations (CROs) play a vital role in clinical trials. The CRO market was worth $61 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $99 billion in 2026. In the midst of the...

The Challenges of Oncology Clinical Trials (and How Tech Can Help)

Over the past 10 years, the number of oncology clinical trials has grown almost twice as fast as the number of trials for any other disease. Oncology trials are a vital source of income for...

5 Strategies for Effective Clinical Trial Site Management

Clinical trial site management costs sponsors and CROs millions of dollars each year. One report estimated that completed clinical trials cost between $44 million and $115 million each.  Of those...