PROPEL

Accelerate the Clinical Trial Process

August 23, 2023 by

Clinical trials are essential for advancing medical research and bringing new treatments to patients. However, the complexity involved in organizing and managing these trials can often result in delays and inefficiencies. To overcome these challenges and accelerate the clinical trial process, it is crucial to focus on streamlining efficiency and collaboration among the multiple teams and tools involved.

Purpose-built specifically for the clinical trial industry, PROPEL empowers organizations to manage the entire clinical trial process easily and efficiently – from pipeline and study startup through trial completion and analysis.

Pipeline Management 

PROPEL offers a robust platform for pipeline management, allowing Business Development team members to easily input and track new trial opportunities from both CROs and sponsors. By logging calls and emails related to these opportunities, PROPEL provides a comprehensive overview of touchpoints and progress. This not only streamlines the process but also improves visibility for leadership and other team members. 

With PROPEL’s powerful dashboards and data management, users can quickly create custom reports and data visualizations to share with key stakeholders. Easily break down past and current trial statistics by indication, site, investigator, and beyond. This powerful data analysis can help your organization win more trial opportunities by showing both historic successes and real-time insights into currently running trials.  

Site Selection and Feasibility 

Selecting the correct sites for any given trial is an important step of the process. You want to ensure the best possible outcome in terms of enrollment, timing, and overall results. PROPEL’s precision query feature allows you to select the most appropriate sites based on both site and investigator criteria, including capabilities, equipment, therapeutic specialties, and more. Once the best sites have been selected, you can send the trial opportunity directly within the platform and receive real-time responses in return. PROPEL’s threaded chat conversations allow central and site-based teams to correspond back and forth – eliminating the need for follow-up calls or emails to field questions and share documents. As sites respond to opportunities and begin the pre-award process, PROPEL automatically records their responses and turnaround timing metrics.  

PROPEL Pre-Award Trialstones 

As the pre-award process begins, PROPEL tracks site milestones as they progress through the stages. Using PROPEL’s Survey Feature, Feasibility team members can create and distribute pre-feasibility and other types of surveys to sites. Once sent, they have real-time visibility into who has completed a survey, who hasn’t, and those who stopped midway. Monitor responses and send custom reminder alerts to prompt sites to complete open surveys. Based on responses, trials can continue to progress at the most suitable sites. 

Study Startup 

Once a trial is awarded to a site, PROPEL makes it easy to follow their progress with improved trial management and monitoring. Track site activity and key post-award milestones including contract, budget, and regulatory stages as sites progress through the study startup process. Central team members can assign custom tasks and alerts to specific users to keep things moving smoothly whenever they see a slowdown or bottleneck.  

To reduce headaches and improve workflow, PROPEL keeps all trial-related documents and communication in one place. Documents such as budget and protocol amendments can be attached to specific trials or site activity records, and central team members can send out updates and alerts directly within the system. Real-time collaboration between central operations and site-based staff is made easy using PROPEL’s chat feed or linked email correspondence. Keep everyone in the loop on the latest updates while also making communication trackable and reportable.  

Screening and Enrollment 

PROPEL Enrollment Dashboard 

Upon site activation and the beginning of patient enrollment, PROPEL continues to track progress by integrating with the leading CTMS solutions to monitor site enrollment. PROPEL works in conjunction with your preferred CTMS to eliminate duplicate data entry and provide total trial oversight. Operations and Enrollment team members can monitor enrollment progress across all sites and trials in real time to see which are enrolling successfully and which are struggling. And unlike using a CTMS alone, PROPEL allows you to drill down into specific metrics with powerful reporting by trial, site, or organization. 

Performance Insights 

Throughout the clinical trial process, PROPEL captures real-time metrics every step of the way, providing full-cycle, wrap-around performance insights and data analytics. Using customizable reports and dashboards, users gain powerful insights into turnaround timing, enrollment progress, and overall performance.  

After a trial is completed, PROPEL enables central operations and leadership teams to dig into past performance to help with future projections and predictions. Report on historical enrollment performance segmented by indication, contract percentage, and other trial characteristics. Use these insights to make future decisions during site selection and share them with CROs and sponsors to help win more trial opportunities.   

Experience time and cost savings, improved efficiency, increased productivity, and full performance transparency throughout the entire clinical trial process with PROPEL. Schedule a personalized demo today to learn how your organization can streamline processes and secure more of the right opportunities.

Devana Solutions  

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial software company that supports real-time collaboration between central research operations professionals and decentralized clinicians serving patients in diverse communities. Devana Solutions 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 clinical trial software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.  

PROPEL

New PROPEL Survey Feature

August 11, 2023 by

In the fast-paced world of clinical trials, feasibility surveys have become a crucial step in the process. These surveys help researchers determine the viability of their trials and ensure that all the necessary resources and capabilities are in place. However, it is important to recognize that surveys have the potential to be powerful tools in various other aspects of clinical research. Building relationships, understanding site capabilities, and gathering feedback are just a few of the areas where surveys can prove to be invaluable. 

Surveys are an incredibly powerful tool, allowing researchers to collect feedback and insights from a wide range of recipients. Whether it’s gathering information from sites within your network, potential vendors, patients, or investigators, surveys can provide valuable data that can inform important decisions. 

PROPEL Enterprise’s new Survey Feature is an exciting development for the clinical trial industry. With this innovative tool, researchers can create and distribute surveys directly within the platform, reaching a large audience and gaining valuable data in a streamlined and efficient manner. 

How It Works 

PROPEL Enterprise‘s new Survey Feature functionality (GIF). 

Quickly create and send surveys directly within PROPEL to LYNK users or external email lists. Use pre-built templates, import existing questions, or create a survey from scratch with PROPEL’s easy-to-use interface. For ease of tracking, you can also associate your survey with a specific trial, contact, or account. 

Once a survey is sent, PROPEL will automatically collect all timing and response data in one place for easy monitoring and reporting – giving you real-time visibility into who has completed a survey, who hasn’t, and who stopped part-way through. But the feature doesn’t stop there – eliminate endless follow-up emails with automated alerts and reminders. 

Instead of relying on multiple programs and websites to send and track surveys, PROPEL provides a closed-loop system allowing you to make surveys, send them out, and to get in-depth analytics on responses and timing.  

For Any Kind of Survey 

Survey Feature interface. 

PROPEL’s new feature aims to transform and streamline the survey process – from feasibility and CSAT to PI onboarding, equipment management, and beyond! Surveys can be as general or specific as you want and for any use case under the sun. Want to know what kind of studies sites are looking for? Need to follow-up with a site or PI about a recent onboarding? PROPEL’s new Survey Feature is here to help! 

Ready to see how Devana Solutions continues to revolutionize how clinical research professionals gather and analyze feedback? Schedule a demo today! 

Devana Solutions  

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial software company that supports real-time collaboration between central research operations professionals and decentralized clinicians serving patients in diverse communities. Devana Solutions 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 clinical trial software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.  

PROPEL

Optimize Clinical Trials with Automated Workflows and Data Analytics

June 21, 2023 by

In a world that has become increasingly focused on the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), it’s hard to imagine a future without most industries being impacted. But while an AI for every niche business need may still be in the future, advanced technologies offering increased efficiency, quality, and time and cost savings are already here. 

Designed specifically for the clinical trials industry, PROPEL’s category-defining technology provides automated workflows and advanced data analytics throughout the entire clinical trial process. 

Automated Workflows 

PROPEL is a cloud-based technology that helps research organizations save time and money through automating clinical trial workflows from initial study lead to trial completion. Providing a single platform for securely storing and managing all your clinical trial data, PROPEL offers full visibility into workflows and next steps across your organization – saving time and reducing risk. With PROPEL, you can accelerate pre-award milestone completion with automated queries, real-time chat threads, and smart workflows. Plus, create and assign custom tasks and alerts to keep things from slipping through the cracks. 

Some aspects of clinical trials are harder to speed up than others. Screening and recruiting patients often takes the longest, requiring more manpower and effort. By accelerating the tasks you can speed up, you can save time for more labor-intensive tasks. PROPEL’s streamlined platform eliminates many repetitive tasks, including data entry into multiple systems and countless calls and emails used to query and update sites. For example, PROPEL’s Outlook integration provides AI-enhanced automatic email capture and attachment, linking relevant information and documentation to an associated trial.  

A single shared system for all data, documents, and communication, PROPEL is the core to any clinical trial tech stack. 

Advanced Data Analytics 

PROPEL provides organizations with the ability to analyze trial and site performance data in real time, allowing you to choose top performing sites and investigators for your study. View full study pipelines and trial stages across all your sites, enabling you to compare progress and take action on any bottlenecks. Quickly make informed decisions based on accurate, timely data.  

PROPEL homepage and Business Development Dashboard.

With access to both real-time and historical data and the ability to analyze and visualize it automatically with custom dashboards and reports, you’ll gain powerful insights into potential outcomes of current and future trials. Right away, you’ll be able to establish benchmarks to measure efficiency, timing metrics, and overall improvement. See patterns appear within the industry and your own organization, allowing you to capitalize on trends and areas of increased demand.  

Seamless integrations with CTMS and other key systems provide you with holistic views into your entire clinical trial process, saving you time and money and increasing your chances of a successful outcome. As trials progress and updates happen across the system, PROPEL automatically captures timing metrics generated on the platform or via integration, providing leadership and study teams with real-time data they can take immediate action on. 

By eliminating repetitive tasks, streamlining workflows, and providing enhanced data analysis, more time can be spent by staff on specialized tasks and patient-centric duties. The end goal of any clinical trial is to get new and better treatments to market faster, and PROPEL’s automations and optimizations can help you get there.  

Don’t wait, schedule a demo and start accelerating your clinical trial processes today! 

Devana Solutions  

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial 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 clinical trial software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.  

PROPEL

Gain Crucial Trial Oversight with Clinical Trial Software for AMCs

June 16, 2023 by

By design, clinical trials are a long and complicated process involving a seemingly endless number of moving parts. It can be difficult to manage everything effectively, especially with the rise of decentralized study teams and more complex trial designs and protocols. For Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) in particular, project management across the entire clinical trial process often proves to be a time-intensive challenge.  

Devana Solutions’ category-defining PROPEL technology offers real-time oversight into trial status, custom integrations, and powerful collaboration tools. Serving as the central hub in any given clinical trial tech stack, PROPEL combines all the key data in one place—providing AMCs with total performance transparency, automated workflows, and reduced workloads overall.  

Project Management and Trial Oversight 

PROPEL Contract % by Trial Report

PROPEL is a powerful project management tool that enables teams to establish improved workflows throughout the entire clinical trial process. Promote buy-in and accountability with transparency into trial status, outstanding tasks, enrollment goals, and performance expectations both organization-wide and for each individual study team. View at a glance which trials are proceeding on schedule, and which are not – allowing for timely interventions to get you back on track.   

With PROPEL, AMCs can track enrollment, activity, timing, and performance based on trial, study team, sponsor, and more. Create customized dashboards and reports using real-time data for powerful metrics and improved trial management. With oversight into every aspect of clinical trials in the system, PROPEL makes it easy for teams to give guidance and resources where needed.   

Study teams also gain visibility and accountability into the study startup progress, enrollment performance goals, and overall trial status. PROPEL allows them to respond to notifications of the latest trial opportunities, along with other task alerts tied to specific trials. Threaded chat conversations streamline communication and allow for real-time collaboration and document sharing. Connect teams no matter their location with PROPEL.  

Seamless Integrations 

With the wide array of disjointed technology such as CTMS, IRB, contracts and budgets, grant management, and more, PROPEL’s open API gives AMCs the power to seamlessly integrate with the tools their team is already using. Integrations with mission-critical systems allow data to flow and synchronize across all platforms, providing powerful oversight for central research teams. Paired with PROPEL’s custom dashboards and reports, cross-platform data can be easily shared with key stakeholders anytime. 

Acting as the hub of the clinical trial tech stack, PROPEL’s custom integrations bring together all the clinical trial data from IRB systems, contract and budget programs, regulatory systems, and beyond—all in one place. By tying together disparate systems in one centralized and easy-to-use platform, AMCs can eliminate duplicate data entry and boost trial cycle times.  

Want to learn more? Download the PROPEL sell sheet.  

Devana Solutions  

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial 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 clinical trial software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.  

PROPEL

PROPEL Spring ’23 Update

May 26, 2023 by

Get ready for an exhilarating update to PROPEL! The Spring ’23 Update brings a plethora of enhancements, refinements, and additions to the platform designed to improve and streamline the user experience system wide with a heavy focus on Trials and Trial Management.  

PROPEL’s latest release is all about optimizing glanceability and improving workflows while prioritizing the information that means the most, from harmonized field names to a new glossary for credentials and the release of Trialstones. The theme underlining the entire release can be summed up as “Trials” – which have been given a complete makeover, including new Trialstones, streamlined tabs and fields, and a progress bar to keep track of trial status. 

What’s New? 

The user interface (UI) has been updated and enhanced across several areas of the platform so everything can be quickly absorbed at a glance. A key part of the updated UI is the new progress bar, which clearly shows what stage a trial is currently in. New, more visually compelling monitoring tiles have replaced checklists in various places, making content more scannable and insights digestible. See below for a look at the new real-time progress bar and pre-award Trialstones tiles.  

PROPEL Trial page with new progress bar and pre-award Trialstones.

What’s a Trialstone, you ask? Pre- and post-award trial milestones are now known as Trialstones throughout the platform. When sites complete Trialstones such as CDA Executed or PSV Complete, this information will be updated across the system – including advancing the trial stage in the new progress bar. Users can track and manage Trialstones directly from any trial page within PROPEL for improved workflows. With the new update, Trialstones can also be updated for multiple sites at once to save time.  

Another great new feature coming in this update is that trials can now be marked as high priority. Making a trial high priority adds a red star to the list view, clearly calling out trials which have been flagged. This new feature allows central team users to delineate which opportunities and trials sites should focus on first. 

We’ve only covered some of the broader highlights, but the Spring 2023 Update brings a lot of exciting new quality of life changes to PROPEL and LYNK. Full release notes and training materials have already been made available to our existing partner-clients. If you’re interested in learning more, please contact us today and we’d be happy to give you a demo of our game-changing platform. 

Devana’s product development pipeline has more exciting updates and features coming soon, so stay tuned!  

Devana Solutions  

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial 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 clinical trial software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.  

PROPEL

Accelerate Study Cycle Times with Clinical Trial Software for CROs

April 27, 2023 by

In our post-pandemic world, contract research organizations (CROs) face more challenges than ever. With greater competition, market consolidation, and a growing emphasis on site empowerment, the CRO market is in a state of flux. Only those willing to be flexible as they apply learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath are likely to come out ahead.   

One of the key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic applied throughout the clinical trial industry is to invest in mission-critical technology. Devana Solutions’ category-defining PROPEL platform offers improved site selection, real-time communication, and site collaboration. PROPEL provides process and performance transparency while automating workflows, accelerating cycle times, and reducing the overall workload for CROs and sites. 

Improved Site Selection 

PROPEL Site Query Functionality

CROs have long relied on manual, time-consuming processes to identify the most suitable sites for new clinical trials. With PROPEL, we’ve eliminated this outdated approach. 

PROPEL enables CROs to perform targeted queries to determine suitable sites for new trials. Find the most effective sites in real-time by digitally querying site capabilities based on therapeutic expertise, physical site facilities, investigator and staff certifications, and more. PROPEL automatically stores site and investigator performance and capabilities data to share with sponsors or use for future trials.  

With PROPEL, CROs can be confident in the sites they’ve selected when reporting back to sponsors with progress updates. 

Real-Time Collaboration 

When you have a clinical trial underway, it’s important to have a tool that makes it easy for you to share information with sites—and receive real-time responses. 

Forget endless follow-up emails, calls, and meetings. Instead, push out mass communications or individually tag relevant users or site teams, alerting them of new trial opportunities, updates, or queries. PROPEL’s threaded chat conversations allow CROs and sites to pose questions, share documents, and provide updates. Real-time feedback from sites, such as if there are too many inclusion/exclusion criteria or more realistic estimates for patient enrollment, can help CROs with sponsor bid defenses. Sites can also ask questions and share documents via the same channels—keeping everyone in the loop throughout the entire clinical trial process.  

With PROPEL, CROs also gain insights into other site organizations already using PROPEL, including two of the largest site networks and the largest site organization in the world. 

Performance Transparency 

 

PROPEL Site Activity Dashboard

When running clinical trials, you need to be able to track and analyze current and historical metrics. This is where PROPEL comes in. 

Tracking current and historical trial metrics with PROPEL’s dashboards and reports can help CROs win more sponsor bid defenses by quantifying past successes and showcasing real-time updates for trials currently running. Key data generated throughout the clinical trial process is automatically stored within PROPEL and can be accessed via custom reports and visualizations whenever needed. Know exactly how a trial progresses from site selection to completion with real-time data capture and analysis. Identify bottlenecks in terms of site responses, patient enrollment, and more so you can step in and provide targeted support where needed.  

Sharing the latest data anytime with stakeholders and sponsors is critical to accelerating cycle times and mitigating bottlenecks and risks.  

Want to learn more? Download the PROPEL sell sheet.  

Devana Solutions  

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial 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 clinical trial software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.  

PROPEL

3 Key Differences Between PROPEL and CTMS

March 13, 2023 by

High staff turnover and burnout have been trending topics in the clinical trials industry over the last year. The goal of successful clinical trials is to get new treatments to market as quickly and safely as possible; however, the process from study startup to study completion is lengthy, and staff turnover causes disruption. With the right technology, standard pre-enrollment steps can be streamlined, automated, and accelerated across your site or site network—ensuring business intelligence is neither overlooked nor forgotten as staffing situations change. 

Furthermore, speeding up the pre-enrollment process can help increase diversity in clinical trials by onboarding sites faster, making your organization look more attractive to sponsors and CROs. 

PROPEL vs. CTMS 

A traditional clinical trial management system (CTMS) is designed to manage patient recruitment, scheduling, and study finances. But if you’re only using a CTMS, it can be hard to proficiently track enrollment and site activity, trial opportunities, timing, and performance across your entire clinical trial operations.   

Fig.1 Unique within the clinical trials industry, PROPEL is an all-inclusive pipeline, startup, trial intelligence, and automation system.

Built for clinical trials, the Devana Solutions tech suite—which includes PROPEL for site networks and LYNK UP for single or emerging sites—is uniquely different from a CTMS. On average, site networks save almost 30 hours of time per week and increase revenue by 40% throughout the end-to-end clinical trial process with PROPEL’s improved workflows, study startup automation, and seamless integrations with popular CTMS and other mission-critical systems for end-to-end operational excellence. With PROPEL, information silos are replaced with organization-wide visibility into trial data and operations. While your CTMS is triggered at recruitment or post-enrollment, PROPEL is involved from initial pipeline management all the way through to study completion and analysis.  

1. Study Startup Automation  

PROPEL and LYNK UP are comprehensive solutions that optimize study startup and performance. Unlike a CTMS, Devana’s category-defining technology allows you to automate your pipeline of trials and your study startup. This allows users to seamlessly track and update milestones throughout the entire startup process. PROPEL transforms the pre-enrollment and study startup process in addition to providing wrap-around reporting every step of the way.   

2. Advanced Custom Analytics & Reporting (from initial pipeline management to study completion) 

Although CTMS includes metrics such as study enrollment, visit tracking, and protocol deviation logs, they do not include other essential insights that give you a comprehensive view of your organization. With PROPEL and LYNK UP, users can leverage additional key metrics such as turnaround timing, study opportunities, and overall study performance reports—enabling you to quickly identify and address bottlenecks to boost startup efficiency and trial performance. PROPEL includes custom dashboards and reports to easily see and share real-time performance metrics by sponsor, CRO, site, indication, and more.  

3. 360-degree View of Your Clinical Trial Operations 

As opposed to a stand-alone CTMS, PROPEL and LYNK UP enable sites to store everything related to ongoing and historical trials all in one place. Now, you can attach documents, emails, call logs, and more to individual study records—saving time and eliminating needless email chains, calls, and meetings. Custom tasks, alerts, and real-time threaded chat conversations facilitate cross-functional communication for both central and remote teams. With PROPEL and LYNK UP, teams can improve workflows, freeing staff from repetitive tasks and multiple clunky systems so they can focus on winning new opportunities. 

See a full breakdown of how PROPEL compares to a CTMS. 

Seamless Integrations with Industry-Leading CTMS 

PROPEL works in conjunction with your preferred CTMS to provide reporting and analytics across the entire clinical trial process. Data points entered into either system are automatically synchronized across both platforms—cutting out duplicate data entry, boosting efficiency, and decreasing clinical trial cycle times. And because your data is securely stored in one place, drilling down into study and site-specific data and performance insights is simple. 

But PROPEL’s integrations don’t stop at your CTMS. From contact management to email marketing, our open API gives you the power to integrate the tools your team is already using to be successful. Now you can truly have access to all the data and information you need—all in one place.  

From start to finish, PROPEL speeds up the entire clinical trial process, ultimately allowing your organization to respond to more trials and win more of the right awards.  

Already have a CTMS or looking to get one? PROPEL integrates with top CTMS solutions, including RealTime, CRIO, and Advarra’s Clinical Conductor.  

Devana Solutions 

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial 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 clinical trial software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs. 

Clinical Trials | PROPEL

Navigating the Great Resignation Within the Clinical Trial Industry

August 23, 2022 by

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a record 4.5 million workers quit their jobs in March 2022—a trend that has continued through the summer. Paired with rising inflation costs, this so-called “Great Resignation” is straining the clinical trial industry like never before. Turnover for both patient-facing and operations staff has been on the rise, causing some trials to come to a screeching halt.  

Clinical trial software such as Devana Solutions PROPEL can help central research operations save time and money by improving workflows and streamlining pipeline management.  

Streamline Processes with Clinical Trial Software 

With high turnover comes frequent regulatory and staff updates, including updating logs, gathering new signatures, and amending databases. Designed specifically for the clinical trial industry, PROPEL provides technological support for various backend workflows, including data entry, reporting, admin support, enrollment, query resolutions, and communications. Say goodbye to duplicate data entry! 

PROPEL enables users to automate tasks and reminders to expedite study start-up and ensure that nothing is overlooked or forgotten as staffing situations change. Teams can also link multiple contacts, documents, and communications across each clinical trial to save time and improve performance visibility. For end-to-end operational excellence, PROPEL integrates with other mission-critical systems, such as your CTMS and Microsoft Outlook. Instead of hunting for lost communications caused by staff turnover, PROPEL creates threaded conversations and allows users to attach documents, link related calls, and even send emails and messages directly from within the platform. 

Utilizing PROPEL, operations professionals can query site capabilities based on therapeutic expertise, investigator and staff certifications, physical site facilities, and more. This enables teams to efficiently share protocols digitally and distribute trial opportunities and documentation to study teams without the need for external communications or cumbersome old databases, saving both time and money. In addition, PROPEL is entirely cloud-based, which makes it simple for remote and decentralized users to log in and execute. 

Specifically designed for efficiency, PROPEL enables teams impacted by turnover and decreased budgets to accomplish more with less. 

Devana Solutions 

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial 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 trial systems. 

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

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Improve Study Outcomes with Clinical Trial Software for CROs

April 28, 2022 by

The relationship between sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) is strengthening as outsourcing becomes a clinical trial norm. It is important for the CRO to have a good working relationship with sites in order to ensure that the trial is successful, particularly in the study startup phase, as clinical trials are increasingly expensive and time-consuming endeavors.

Key factors that influence a good relationship and where clinical trial software can help are:

  • Targeted Site Selection
  • Digitized Feasibility
  • Enhanced Site Collaboration and Communication
  • Process and Performance Transparency

Targeted Site Selection

More complex protocols require more precise site selection. Devana’s PROPEL technology allows for CROs to perform automated queries during site selection to determine the right sites or investigators based on the requirements of the protocol. PROPEL allows CROs to store the site and investigator performance and capabilities data that can be managed and updated by the sites, in real-time, allowing for more accurate site selection. Sponsors can be confident that the sites selected by the CRO will be capable of meeting performance expectations, resulting in better study outcomes.

Digitized Feasibility

While feasibility questionnaires are certainly a critical piece to selecting the right sites for a trial, the entire process, as it is today, is a bit archaic. Devana is revolutionizing the feasibility process by allowing CROs to submit a digitized feasibility to the sites selected for each trial. Say goodbye to outdated PDFs and third-party websites. This digital feasibility will pre-populate information that typically remains the same, trial to trial, such as the site’s location and contact information, but allows for the CROs to receive new, trial-specific data such as subject population criteria. The sites can review their previously submitted data for accuracy and respond to any new inquiries, resulting in a speedier feasibility process and a lower cost for the Sponsor.

Enhanced Site Collaboration and Communication

In addition to improving the feasibility process, Devana took it a step further by creating a threaded communication feed between the sites and CROs within the PROPEL platform. If a Sponsor reaches out to a CRO about a trial in bid-defense, needing to quickly know the potential subject pool for a particular indication, the CRO can instantly push out a mass communication to the sites and gather their responses within the platform. No more cumbersome calls or emails to track. Just the same, if a CRO submits a site for a trial, the site can review the details and provide feedback to the CRO or ask questions related to the protocol. It’s a win-win for all involved, the site, the CRO and the Sponsor, since this connectivity allows for more efficient communication throughout the entire clinical trial process.

Process and Performance Transparency

Another important aspect of a good working relationship between Sponsors and CROs is process and performance transparency. The entire clinical trial process, from study startup through close-out, produces a lot of key data. By using PROPEL, CROs have real-time views into the trial, by site, to know exactly where the trial is at any given time. The ability to quickly obtain this data and provide to Sponsors is critical to the swift and successful execution of a trial and the ability to mitigate risk.

Devana Solutions

Devana Solutions is an innovative cloud-based clinical trial 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 clinical trial software for the clinical trials industry that integrates seamlessly with CTMS and other key systems to keep success in the crosshairs.