Devana Solutions Connects Research Operations and Business Intelligence at Scale with Clinical Conductor Integration

A new interface between Devana’s IGNITE and PROPEL products and Advarra’s Cloud-Based Clinical Trial Management System establishes an end-to-end solution for efficient research conduct and world-class business intelligence.

CHAPEL HILL, NC (March 10, 2022)Devana Solutions is pleased to announce a new, at scale CTMS- integration solution for research organizations utilizing Advarra’s Clinical Conductor Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), improving efficiency, and providing research sites with actionable insights across their entire research portfolio.

The Devana <-> Advarra integration is a dynamic, bi-directional data and process flow between Devana’s IGNITE and PROPEL products, and Advarra’s industry-leading Clinical Conductor CTMS. Following the natural progression of a trial, the trial startup begins in Devana, flows through Clinical Conductor for clinical execution and research operations management, and then back to Devana for end-to-end business intelligence. Enrollment performance metrics are derived automatically and pulled into the Devana system as research teams are interacting with Clinical Conductor, reducing duplicative workflows within the systems.

The robust and sought-after analytics, available within the Devana systems, offer configurable views to analyze performance data, by trial or indication, by site, or organization-wide. Combined with Clinical Conductor’s ability to optimize operational finances, regulatory compliance, and overall operational workflows, these integrated products provide a seamless, comprehensive, clinical research solution. After a very thorough and thoughtful technical approach, the Devana <-> Advarra CTMS integration is now live for all Clinical Conductor customers.

“At Devana Solutions, we have always prided ourselves in listening to our clients and being attentive to their needs,” explained Barry Lake, Devana Solutions’ CEO. “So, when the leadership at highly-valued client-partners, Javara Research and Velocity Clinical Research, encouraged an API-integration with Advarra’s Clinical Conductor CTMS to better support their study teams, we were eager to explore it.”

“We were pleased to work closely with the team at Advarra and the integration of both systems has increased our clients’ operational efficiency. We look forward to deploying the connection for the benefit of additional mutual clients. Working together, as an industry, we can and will move mountains!” added Lake.

“We are thrilled to collaborate with Devana and our customers on this innovative interface,” said James Wurdeman, Chief Product Officer at Advarra. “Devana’s approach to developing this integration aligns with our philosophy of creating site-centric, open, customer-focused technology solutions that can be integrated with enterprise systems across a research site or site network.”

Devana Solutions now boasts integrations with several leading CTMS technologies on the market. These integrations speak to more than just added convenience and increased efficiencies; they’re speeding up the clinical trial process resulting in improved clinical outcomes and therapies to patients.

About Devana Solutions

Decentralized clinical trials and work-from-anywhere is now a reality. Devana Solutions innovative cloud platform supports real-time collaboration between central research operations professionals and decentralized clinicians serving patients in diverse communities. Devana even bridges the technology access and data divide by seamlessly and securely connecting decentralized researchers to other mission-critical clinical trials systems. From pipeline administration to rapid study startup automation. From document-sharing through the capture, display, analysis, and exchange of key trial performance metrics data from central research leaders to decentralized trial teams. From investigative site to CRO to trial sponsor, Devana Solutions is the answer. At Devana Solutions, we’re transforming the business of clinical trials. https://devanasolutions.com/

About Advarra

Advarra makes clinical research safer, smarter, and faster. Our integrated solutions help safeguard trial participants, empower clinical sites, ensure compliance, and optimize research performance for over 3,500 sponsors, CROs, institutions, academic medical centers, and research consortia.

With trusted and unequaled independent oversight committee services, innovative software solutions for sites, sponsors, and CROs, and experienced consultants with deep-seated connections across the industry, Advarra has the expertise and technology needed to advance clinical research and help our clients make the world a healthier place.

Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Advarra’s extensive geographic reach helps clients navigate the evolving research and regulatory environment. https://www.advarra.com/

Clinical Trial Tech Stack: Seamless Connectivity For Your Team

Clinical trials have evolved in recent years. There are now more decentralized clinical trials than ever before, thanks to the adoption of cutting-edge technologies. However, in order for these trials to be successful from the beginning, it is essential to select the right tech stack. This can be daunting, but don’t worry; the team at Devana Solutions, a clinical trial software platform, is here to help! Here are the key considerations when selecting your clinical trial technology.

During the pandemic, the industry accelerated its growing adoption of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). This allowed sites to expand their reach and diversify their patient selection. This approach offers several advantages over traditional clinical trials, including:

  • Improved patient access to cutting-edge therapies;
  • Increased efficiency and cost savings due to the elimination of centralization costs (such as those associated with data management and monitoring); and,
  • Enhanced study feasibility due to the use of innovative technologies.

For thriving enterprises in the clinical trial space, developing the software needed to process their needs could be cumbersome. Considering that there are multiple steps and phases, from the business development through patient trials, it can be a daunting task sorting through the different frameworks, languages, and integrations to deliver an optimal experience for your clinical trial organization.

Fortunately for your organization, Devana Solutions has developed the right solution with its IGNITE and PROPEL systems. Adding in LYNK as a communication and data exchange conduit can also keep your teams synchronized when using PROPEL.

Like any comprehensive tech stack, here are some of the key benefits of Devana Solutions.

  • User interface
  • Data storage and security
  • Application integrations
  • Monitoring and performance tools.

Let’s take a closer look at each of these considerations.

User interface

When selecting clinical trial management software, it is important to ensure that the user interface is easy to use and intuitive. In addition, a good user interface can help improve the exchange of information and data between the central teams and remote sites. It can take time to adapt to new technology.

Data storage and security

As teams exchange and use information, cloud-based applications are the easiest to use and store critical data. Throughout the clinical trials, it is essential to ensure that data is stored and accessed securely. This means using an encrypted database that can be accessed only by authorized users. It is also important to have a backup plan in case of system failure.

Application integrations

The best software allows for integrations to enhance the user experience. Devana Solutions integrates with many platforms, including Real-Time CTMS and Clinical Research IO (CRIO) Devana Solutions client-partners also have the benefit of connectivity with communication and interactive data visualization platforms like Microsoft Outlook, MailChimp, and Tableau. Other client-partners benefit from working with Devana Solutions because of the custom integrations made by our technology team.

Monitoring and performance tools

In order to ensure the success of your clinical trial operations, it is important to have tools in place for monitoring and performance tracking. This includes both real-time and retrospective monitoring of data, as well as dashboards that provide an overview of study progress.

Now that you know what to consider when selecting a tech stack for your clinical trial management software, let’s take a closer look at Devana Solutions.

Devana Solutions

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud software company that supports real-time collaboration between central research operations professionals and decentralized clinicians serving patients in diverse communities. Devana Solutions even bridges the technology access and data divide by seamlessly and securely connecting decentralized researchers to other mission-critical clinical trials systems.

Let us show you in more detail what Better Data, Better Decisions, Better Outcomes could do for your clinical trial processes. Book a demo with Devana Solutions today to learn about our cloud-based data analytics software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.

Transform Your Clinical Trial Processes in 2022

While those of us who work in the clinical trial space have always known that the importance of our work cannot be overstated, there’s no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has driven home the importance of the clinical trials industry to the rest of the world as well. As we reflect back on the events of the past year, Devana Solutions is proud of the role we have played in supporting the development of life-saving vaccines, treatments, medical devices, and medications that have had a positive impact on quality of life for the patients who received them. As we look forward to 2022, we remain dedicated to supporting new discoveries in the field of medical research.

At Devana, we know that clinical trials are an essential part of ensuring that real people get the care they need to live better lives. We’re also aware how limited the options have been for managing clinical trial processes. Labor-intensive manual data entry and scattered spreadsheets with incomplete or missing information are common. Often “the left hand” will have no idea what “the right hand” is doing, especially if both of those “hands” belong to a research organization conducting more than a handful of trials at once. That’s why we developed our technology—to help you bring your goals for the future of medicine into alignment with your capabilities as a site, CRO, or sponsor. 

While there’s no telling what kinds of challenges 2022 might bring; the cumbersome, error-prone processes you currently struggle with don’t have to be among them. Imagine, instead, the opportunities that will unfold with Devana’s clinical trial technology that provides you with a single, cloud-based platform with real-time data.

From pre-award through  trial completion, our platform lets you effortlessly manage all of the information along the way. Clinical trial processes become a snap when you have instant access to all the necessary data required. You won’t have to worry about inaccuracies slowing down the trial award process and startup stage, because all of the necessary data for a site can quickly and easily be assessed and shared with CROs and sponsors. 

As your single solution to standardize, streamline, and automate all of your clinical trial processes, our platform will help you align with the right trials and speed therapies and treatments to the patients who need them most. Let 2022 be the year you take the first step towards transforming your clinical trial processes with Devana Solutions.

Book a demo with Devana Solutions today to learn more about our cloud-based data analytics software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.

 

How to Better Manage Your Clinical Trial Operations

One of the biggest challenges that clinical research organizations face is managing their vast influx of clinical trial opportunities from Sponsors, CROs and other potential sources. As anyone in this industry knows, there’s a lot of effort that goes into starting up a clinical trial; from sourcing the trial, to feasibility and site selection, to contract and budget negotiations, to regulatory and the many steps in between. Even today, in this advanced digital age, most research organizations are still relying upon mundane spreadsheets and manual processes to manage their trial activities. Why are we still doing this when there is technology available to make our lives easier? Devana Solutions’ innovative platforms help to increase efficiency around clinical trial processes for research organizations of all sizes, with varying needs. 

Managing New Clinical Trial Opportunities

Devana Solutions helps you track the pipeline of new clinical trial opportunities.  

Let’s say you’re a research organization with ten site locations that was just approached with a new clinical trial opportunity. In Devana, you can create the trial opportunity, once, completing details such as the name, trial origin, therapeutic area, protocol number, etc.; details that will not change regardless of which sites are conducting the trial.

Once you’ve created the trial within Devana, you can then add all ten sites to the trial, which creates a site activity and enrollment record for each site. Whether startup activities are handled centrally or at the site level, you will be able to track the completion of necessary milestones within Devana. If certain milestones are handled centrally, you only have to update the milestone once from the main trial page instead of having to update each individual site record, 10 different times.

Devana also offers built in, automated task management so important tasks never get missed, since we know there are many moving parts in managing a trial, in all stages.

Simplify Feasibility Questionnaires

One of the more frustrating situations during the feasibility process is not having complete data to quickly and easily respond to feasibility questionnaires.

When you have this information in a comprehensive system like Devana Solutions, it makes responding to a feasibility much easier since everything is at your fingertips.

One area where this is immensely beneficial is having concrete data surrounding your investigators’ historical and current trial performance. When completing feasibilities, do you know, without hesitation, how many trials they’ve participated in? Can you easily tell how many they are actively conducting? Or perhaps the feasibility is asking for data related to the indication. Do you know how many trials you’ve completed in a particular indication? What about your average enrollment percentage in that indication? Or screen failure and patient retention percentages? Devana Solutions allows you to instantly access data whether it’s sorted by the trial, indication, investigator, site or the entire organization.

Sort Your Decentralized Site Data in Seconds

In the age of decentralized trials, it can be difficult to sort through each sites’ capabilities to determine which sites are compatible when presented with a new trial opportunity. Sure, you may have a spreadsheet detailing each sites’ therapeutic capabilities and equipment on site, but how time consuming is it to sort through this information manually? Or what if a site makes a sudden change to their capabilities? How can you be confident that the information you have on hand is accurate? Certainly, you can call or email the site each time you receive a new feasibility, but who has time for that? 

These manual processes may not be too cumbersome if you have two or three sites, but what happens when you have two to three dozen or more?  Devana Solutions tracks all of the key information for each site so that you are able to quickly query the data for all site locations to determine which sites or investigators are capable of conducting a particular trial. But how can Devana help ensure that you always have the most accurate data on your sites? Through Devana’s site-facing interface, LYNK, which allows site-level users to update their capabilities in real-time, so that your teams can be rest assured that the information they rely upon for precise site-selection is accurate.

Is your site maximizing its potential to conduct trials more efficiently and reliably? Are you easily able to access critical data to make better business decisions? If not, you’re not alone. Come join the numerous industry leaders who made the decision to partner with Devana.  Book a demo with our team by clicking here, or fill out the form at the bottom of this page.  

 

Announcing Our Clinical Research IO (CRIO) Integration is Complete!

CHAPEL HILL, NC (October 15, 2020) — Devana Solutions, LLC is pleased to announce the successful completion of their seamless integration with leading CTMS platform, Clinical Research IO (CRIO), to continue to help clinical research sites become more efficient by decreasing clinical trial cycle time to speed therapeutic advances to patients.

Devana Solutions’ novel IGNITE platform has added immense value to leading research organizations by providing a platform that streamlines and automates workflows, captures key timing metrics, and provides robust reporting and dashboarding capabilities during study startup and screening and enrollment. To continue to support these organizations, Devana has partnered with CRIO, sharing the same value and mission, to simplify and make the entire clinical trial process more efficient.

“Whenever Devana looks to launch a strategic partnership with another technology provider to benefit our customers, we look for a firm that is innovative and has deep roots in the research site sector,” stated Barry Lake, Devana Solutions’ CEO, “Clinical Research IO, under Raymond’s leadership, certainly checks both of these boxes.”

“At Clinical Research IO, we distinguish ourselves with a product that seamlessly addresses the challenges in clinical trials. Our collaboration with another industry trail blazer, Devana, is a partnership that will further increase clinical trial efficiency,” said CRIO’s Co-Founder, Raymond Nomizu. “A data driven approach enhances every site’s ability to make critical decisions and taking advantage of our technology allows sites to gather and analyze more data than ever before. We look forward to implementing this partnership with our growing list of mutual clients.”

With the integration now complete, the two companies’ mutual client-partners will benefit from an end-to-end business intelligence solution, providing transparency into clinical trial performance metrics for analysis and decision-making. The combined efficiencies that Devana IGNITE and CRIO provide will speed up the clinical trial process, help leadership to make more informed decisions and ultimately, advance therapies to patients faster and at a lower cost.

ABOUT DEVANA SOLUTIONS, LLC: 

Devana Solutions®, LLC is a cloud SaaS provider driven by a core belief that data transparency through technology is critical to selection of the top performing research sites to align with pharmaceutical Sponsors and CROs to reduce clinical trial cycle time and costs to speed the delivery of new therapies to patients. Devana Solutions offers three platforms, IGNITE, PROPEL and IQ for sponsors and CROs, to provide historical and real-time data capture, aggregation and display to drug development stakeholders. For more information call (877) DEVANA-2 or visit www.devanasolutions.com.

ABOUT CLINCIAL RESEARCH IO:

Clinical Research IO is the leading eSource solution for clinical research sites. Since its launch in September 2016, over 600 research sites have adopted the system. For more information, visit www.clinicalresearch.io.