BioClinica CTMS

BioClinica Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS)

Clinical trial professionals are often frustrated with the inefficiencies surrounding clinical study software that does not work with their office software. TranSenda's Office-Smart clinical trial software solutions address the need to unify study software with the familiar, widely supported and easy-to-use Microsoft Office System.

For organizations engaged in conducting clinical trials, Office-Smart clinical trial management software solutions from TranSenda create a natural next step to bring Office tools, business process workflow, and documents into the regulated world of clinical trial applications.

Office-Smart CTMS systems trial solutions are a new category of software which is basically the result of blending a clinical study application with the Microsoft Office System. To make Clinical Trial Manager "Office-Smart", TranSenda has taken a "line-of-business" (LOB) application—in this case a CTMS—and optimized it to interoperate with the Microsoft Office System in ways that make the most sense for study professionals. Microsoft calls a solution that connects LOB applications, systems, processes and people with the familiar Microsoft Office interface an Office Business Application (OBA).  Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager is essentially an OBA-based CTMS system.

With Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager, TranSenda's objective is to leverage the Microsoft Office environment in ways that are intuitively smart from a user experience standpoint. Study professionals typically perform significant additional work outside of a "formal" LOB system as they "informally" collaborate with others via email, phone and fax. They also obtain information from multiple sources in the form of documents, spreadsheets and reports—as they switch between online and offline modes for data entry, report preparation, communication, and meetings. An OBA-based CTMS system like Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager helps to simplify this interaction by blending formal and informal tasks to smartly support the ad-hoc ways that people actually perform their tasks.

An Office-Smart clinical trials solution not only simplifies dealing with ongoing workflow, it also significantly improves staff effectiveness. Study teams frustrated with an overly complex environment can use Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager as a single, Office-centric source for critical study data and documents. Familiar Office tools like Excel, Outlook and Word can now be more fully leveraged. For instance, Excel is integrated with Office-Smart software to make mismatched data from workaround spreadsheets that stand outside of a clinical trial management software system a problem of the past. Extra data entry is minimized or eliminated. An Office-Smart clinical trial solution creates less work—not more.

Office-Smart clinical trial management software also takes advantage of Microsoft's powerful SharePoint portal technology to dramatically improve multi-site communication and collaboration. Study teams that are now faced with numerous application interfaces that don't "talk" to their email or spreadsheets, can now benefit from unprecedented connectivity. For example, site visit reports can be routed for approval from Word with the ability to enforce updates to metadata according to business rules. Or, while on the road, a Clinical Research Associate can access managed Word documents like the latest SOPs, create site visit reports, and even trigger workflow for an approval process—all accomplished through Outlook's familiar environment.

Organizations can leverage their staff's experience with the Microsoft Office system to reduce the need for training and increase the adoption of technology. By enabling study professionals to interact naturally with their favorite Office tools, organizations can improve study team morale, increase productivity and improve quality.  Office-Smart clinical trial management solutions can simply transform the study workplace into a more effective environment.

Connectivity

Transenda's patent-pending ClinBUS data interchange technology, now part of BioClinica, enables the exchange and presentation of operational data from multiple systems to internal and external users in real-time. The unique ClinBUS approach to clinical trial management system integration facilitates a family of data connectors for legacy and enterprise applications. Maximum interoperability is further enhanced by BioClinica's open standards architecture which supports XML-based conventions and industry standards, such as CDISC.

The System

All TranSenda solutions are powered by TranSenda Central-a system of integrated modules that share a process-based platform of common functionality. Integrated modular solutions form a flexible and expandable clinical trial management system that can be readily modified with changing needs and regulations. In addition, the system supports 21 CFR Part 11 compliance for all TranSenda applications.

Hosting Services

For organizations with limited IT resources or wish to minimize your infrastructure investment in order to simplify system management, TranSenda offers hosting services, including via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), for all applications.

Want to learn more about how our clinical trial management services can benefit your clinical studies? Request a demo today!