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Operational Risk in Clinical Research: What Leaders Don’t See Until It’s Too Late

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This brief is intended to help AMC, hospital, and health system leaders reframe how operational risk shows up in modern research environments.   Most clinical research leaders track budgets, enrollment, timelines, and compliance closely. Yet one of the most expensive operational costs in research rarely shows up anywhere formal. It doesn’t appear in licensing. It doesn’t appear in budgets.  It shows up in people.  It shows up in the invisible … Read more

The Blind Spot in AMC, Hospital, and Health System Research Operations

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Legacy CTMS Works. That’s the Problem.  Legacy and similar homegrown CTMS platforms do exactly what they were designed to do:  Track studies  Support compliance  Store data  But modern research operations don’t break at the point of documentation. They break in the spaces between systems, teams, and workflows where no CTMS was ever designed to look.  This creates an … Read more

Why Clinical Research Sites Miss Trial Milestones (And It’s Not Staffing) 

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Clinical research sites rarely fall behind on trial milestones because of a single failure. More often, delays build slowly, day by day, through friction that is hard to see, hard to measure, and easy to normalize. The number one reason why clinical research sites miss trial milestones is not staffing, motivation, expertise, or even protocol complexity. It’s operational drag caused by fragmented research workflows.  When trial milestones slip, the same explanations … Read more

2026 Predictions for Site-based Clinical Trial Technology

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Clinical research has entered a defining decade. Technology isn’t just supporting trials; it’s reshaping how research is planned, executed, and experienced by every stakeholder involved. For Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), hospitals, health systems, and site networks, 2026 will be about moving from adoption to deeper integration of unified, enterprise-grade eClinical ecosystems that connect every operational workflow. The most successful organizations will be those that connect their technology, people, and processes … Read more

RealTime Keynote Recap: The Recruitment Playbook for Clinical Trials

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RealTime Keynote Recap: The Recruitment Playbook for Clinical Trials

Watch the Replay: RealTime Keynote: The Recruitment Playbook for Clinical Trials   Patient recruitment continues to be one of the most challenging aspects of running a clinical trial. Common pitfalls often include low enrollment, underutilized tools, and lack of data visibility. In this RealTime Keynote Recap: The Recruitment Playbook for Clinical Trials, our experts revealed what top-performing … Read more

Introducing EDC Connect: The End of Duplicate Data Entry from eSource to EDC in Clinical Trials

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Why manual transcription from eSource to EDC is now the industry’s biggest and most fixable bottleneck.    Clinical trials are entering a new era of technology innovation and adoption. We’ve seen AI-assisted site selection, decentralized models, real-time analytics, and fully digital workflows. Yet one of the most time-consuming, error-prone, and universally hated tasks in research has barely changed at all. Since the day eSource entered … Read more

RealTime Keynote Recap: The Next Chapter of eSource

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Watch the Replay: The RealTime Keynote – The Next Chapter of eSource  Every coordinator knows the drill: collect the data once, type it again, fix the errors, and reconcile the queries. It’s a burden that has never truly been solved – eSource to EDC. And for decades, clinical research has accepted the contradiction of collecting … Read more

Why AMCs and Health Systems Are Switching to a Unified Site Operations Management System (SOMS) + Devana

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The Challenge: Legacy Systems Everywhere Why the most advanced AMCs, hospitals, and health systems ow are leaving legacy systems behind.  Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and health systems are at the forefront of scientific discovery. They run hundreds of trials across departments, manage dozens of sponsor relationships, and balance regulatory, financial, and ethical oversight, often while advancing research that directly … Read more

Inside the 2025 eSource RealTime Report: Why Manual Data Entry Is Now the Industry’s Weakest Link

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RealTime Reports: Closing the Gap Between eSource Data Capture and Data Flow.  Modern sites are under relentless pressure: more trials, tighter timelines, higher expectations for data integrity, and audit readiness. Traditional paper-based or hybrid workflows simply can’t keep up. Electronic source data capture (eSource) is now rapidly becoming the gold standard for high-performing sites.  In the latest … Read more

Webinar Recap: Outdated Metrics, Missed Opportunities – Rethinking Site Selection in 2025 

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The clinical research industry is entering a new era of performance transparency where data, not legacy relationships, drives site selection.  That was the central theme of the recent SCRS hosted webinar, “Outdated Metrics, Missed Opportunities: Rethinking Site Selection in 2025.” Industry leaders came together to discuss how artificial intelligence, data analytics, and site-sponsor collaboration are … Read more

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