AI Can Read the Trial Registry. Institutions Still Have to Run the Trials. For decades, clinical research teams have relied on the same public source of truth to understand the global trial landscape: ClinicalTrials.gov. It’s where sponsors register studies, where regulators ensure transparency, and where research institutions look to understand what trials exist, who is running them, and how … Read more
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
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
A fast-growing, multi-site specialty research network faced critical operational challenges due to decentralized systems and the departure of key leadership. With a prior CTMS implementation yielding less than 25% staff adoption and no clear roadmap forward, the organization turned to RealTime’s Professional Services team for strategy.
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
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
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
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
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
Clinical trials are moving faster, growing more complex, and facing sharper regulatory scrutiny than ever before. That leaves clinical research sites and site networks with a critical question: is your technology helping you move faster? For too many sites, the answer lies somewhere in the middle. That’s why we’re exploring a unified approach to clinical trial … Read more
