NorthWise Services Partners With Merge to Offer Comprehensive Clinical Trial Services
February 14 2013 - 7:00AM
Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of
clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare,
today announced that NorthWise Services (NWS) has partnered with
Merge and selected eClinical OS™ to collect, manage and report on
clinical trials data across all studies.
NWS is a specialist CRO offering services in data management,
statistics and medical writing. Its services are complementary to
the offerings of Merge, which has allowed for a strong and active
working partnership to develop.
"NWS has always supported products at the forefront of eClinical
technology, but in the past this tended to be separated into
different software tools for EDC, ePRO, IVR, etc.," explained Dr.
Philip North, Managing Director of NorthWise Services. "It is
therefore very appealing now to be able to access a wide range of
eClinical functions on a single web-based platform, with just one
user login and password."
Recognizing the potential benefits of eClinical OS in
collecting, managing and reporting clinical trials data across all
phases, NWS has arranged to have its own eClinical OS certified
study builder, who can now build studies for clients using
eClinical OS.
"We were pleased with how easy it was for our study builder to
become qualified and certified in the use of eClinical OS,"
continued Dr. North. "Merge provided NWS access to eClinical OS in
a sandbox environment during the self-training process. Because of
this, the qualification was quickly and entirely achieved, using
only the extensive online training materials available within
eClinical OS. The built-in training materials were intuitive and
thorough. Our staff did not require any additional help from Merge
– though that would have been available if needed."
Cost transparency using eClinical OS's self-service quoting tool
was also a benefit to NWS.
"The cost calculator tool has been very valuable," added Dr.
North. "Not only is Merge eClinical OS competitive in the eClinical
marketplace, but this tool allows us to remain competitive when
bidding on a new study with our sponsor clients."
"With eClinical OS, NWS has deep visibility into the cost of its
studies," said Justin Dearborn, President of Merge Healthcare. "We
designed a cost calculator into the system which allows our clients
to generate their own quotes and create budget scenarios in
real-time. This provides them with the decision support tools to
balance options and costs."
Merge eClinical OS provides end-to-end study support through a
single, easy-to-use interface allowing clients to manage and run
studies more efficiently than ever before. It delivers built-in
study templates, libraries and reports to help users create studies
quickly and manage them effectively without technical assistance.
Merge eClinical OS works for the largest and smallest studies, has
the flexibility to support trials in any phase, and captures any
type of data, from any source, from any modality.
About Merge Healthcare
Merge is a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations
that seek to transform healthcare. Merge's enterprise and
cloud-based solutions for image intensive specialties provide
access to any image, anywhere, any time. Merge also provides health
stations, clinical trials software and other health data and
analytics solutions that engage consumers in their personal health.
With solutions that are used by providers and consumers and include
more than 20 years of innovation, Merge is helping to reduce costs
and improve the quality of healthcare worldwide. For more
information, visit merge.com.
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About NorthWise Services
NorthWise Services (NWS) was founded in January 2001, and has
main offices at the Kent Science Park in Sittingbourne, UK. NWS
offers a range of services, including data management, statistics,
and medical writing, to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other
industries, and other services and products through strategic
working alliances. For more information, visit
northwiseservices.com.
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