A lot has happened in electronic support for clinical research in the last 20 years ... and eClinical Forum has been there discussing it all!  We are pleased to be celebrating our 20th anniversary year, stronger than ever with 45+ member companies (and growing), meetings on 3 continents, global webinars that have been attended by members in over 25 countries, very active project teams, meetings with regulators, and freely adding to the knowledge base of the industry. Any organization working in this space is welcome to join. Please see the membership tab on our website (www.eclinicalforum.org) or contact us for more information!  info@eclinicalforum.org

Getting our members together to talk out the current issues and do creative problem-solving is what we do best. Sadly, due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the following meetings are cancelled:

April 27-29 2020:  Helsinki Finland, hosted by Signant Health

May 11-13 2020:  New Jersey, USA hosted by Diligent Pharma

But that doesn't mean we won't be "getting together"! We are announcing our "Virtual Global Workshop" for 11-13 May 2020.

Expand the article for the workshop agenda and registration details.

As there are no regulatory detailed expectations on oversight by investigators on eCOA data, multiple approaches have been adopted across the industry (from log-in as evidence to notification/alerts or investigator signature on eCOA data). In general, as per other data sources, oversight for eCOA data should be continual and not once at the end of the study. In addition, oversight activities should be right-sized according to the criticality of the data and protocol requirements for compliance. Evidence of the oversight should be available during the conduct of the trial and enduring for the entire retention period.  The aim of this webinar is to allow participants to share different approaches and any knowledge of current expectations by regulatory inspectors.

Our European meeting of the eClinical Forum took place in Brussels 15-17 May 2019, kindly hosted by Janssen.  The rousing meeting was well attended by members from Actelion, Bayer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CRF Bracket, CSL Behring, Eli Lilly, eResearch Technology, Glaxo SmithKline, Idorsia, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Medidata, Merck KGaA, Munich Technical University, Neptunus Data, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Orion, Servier, Wega Informatik, ZeinCRO ... and guests Association for Innovative Medicines, ECRIN, and European Patients' Forum.  Meeting participants rated this meeting highly successful once again!

This meeting is being replaced with a Virtual Global Workshop on 11-13 May 2020.

Networking with peers has never been more important in order to stay current, collaborate on shared challenges and influence the future. The eClinical Forum offers a unique, non-commercial networking environment to learn, exchange information and ideas, collaborate on shared initiatives.

For more information on our Virtual Global Workshop, please contact info@eclinicalforum.org.

The eClinical Forum Asia-Pacific took place in Tokyo, 5-6 November 2018, kindly hosted by Boehringer Ingelheim - Japan with many pharmaceuticals, CROs, and software vendors attending. For more information, please contact sohaib.khawaja@eclinicalforum.org 

That's what one person wrote on the evaluation ... while another wrote "ECF are the only meetings I attend each year. It gives me everything I need to stay current and to answer my questions" and another wrote "People were amazing. Topics were great. Hosting and events as well." Yes, indeed it was a terrific meeting and we are already planning for follow-up discussions in our project teams, webinars and Spring meetings. Thank you to all who participated!! And a special Thanks for Servier for hosting us. The meeting was attended by: Merck KGaA, ZeinCRO, eResearch Technology, Munich Technical University, Hoffman La-Roche, TriNetX, BSI Business Systems Integration, Orion, Novartis, DBV Technologies, Medidata Solutions, Oracle, CRF Health/Bracket, DMB, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Idorsia, Actelion, Ferring, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Wega Informatik, Novo Nordisk, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, 23 Consulting, Neptunus Data, and of course Servier.

Our Spring European meeting was held at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany on 15-17 May 2018. Companies participating were Novartis, Servier, CSL Behring, Oslo University Hospital, Neptunus Data, ECRIN, Eli Lilly, Wega Informatik, Medidata Solutions, Orion Pharmaceuticals, CRF Health, eResearch Technology, Actelion, BSI Business Systems, Trials Hub, ICON, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Oracle, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck KGaA, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Munich Technical University, Eurcrof, Omnicomm.