Chilmark Research is offering a FREE 20-page iPHR Market Report (Executive Summary).  You’ll need to enter your email address and address info, but that’s it!

The full report is a 200+ page report going for just a little under $2,500.  The full report consists of 3 chapters and an appendices.  The free report only includes chapter 1 (Executive Summary).  Nothing wrong with that, because that’s exactly what they advertised.  Chapter 2 (Market Trends) and chapter 3 (iPHR Vendor Profiles) are not included.  Too bad…

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Over 100 clinical research institutions adopted OpenClinica, an open-source EDC platform?

At first glance, OpenClinica looks likes a very polished product.  Based on the demo application, the web pages are snappy, and the user-interface seems pretty clean and friendly.  Of course it was a demo study, so it’s not clear how the application will fair under the heavy load of a phase III or phase IV clinical trial.  This definitely seems like something worth investigating, and here’s some more details.

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The Personal Health Records arena is now open for battle!  In the blue corner is the seasoned HealthVault (launched last year!).  In the red corner is the newcomer, Google Health.  With these two heavyweights, it’s hard to say who will come out on top.

Check out Washington Post’s review of Google Health.

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Whether you’re working on a big pharma clinical trial or a multi-site research study, changes will pop-up while the study is running. I have yet to find someone who enjoys changing electronic case report forms (CRFs), subject numbering schemes, or modifying user permissions in the middle of a study, but change requests will come and how you react to these changes defines the robustness of your design. It’s frustrating, and I’ve found that they are unfortunately a fact of life.

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