Archives: Agenda

Practical ways ICON is using AI to address common delivery pain points

  • Predict high-performing sites and investigators to accelerate enrolment
  • Forecast site activation timelines with greater accuracy
  • Anticipate post-marketing commitments earlier in the process
  • Enhance TMF compliance and quality through intelligent automation
  • Accelerate and streamline site contracting for faster study start-up
  • Drive operational efficiency and cost savings through robotic process automation

Fine-tuning the site-sponsor partnership by aligning strategies and fostering ongoing communication and flexibility

  • When the demand for research sites is growing and supply is failing to keep up, what can be done for competing trials?
  • Dealing with exorbitant startup fees imposed by sites, with no guarantee of patient enrolment
  • Elevating site support with comprehensive budgets and accelerated site payments
  • Enabling appropriate technology for sponsors to easy access patients’ EMR
  • Working to identify “hidden” costs and trial efforts that sites may not anticipate before negotiations
  • Overcoming outdated paradigms that threaten site-sponsor relationships
  • Carving out a niche to set you apart from the crowd to enable access to sites and patient populations

Engaging in successful partnerships with the U.S. NIH

  • Growing in a thoughtful manner to ensure FDA inspection readiness
  • Allowing future studies to benefit from standards established and remained consistent right from the start
  • Engaging in respectful partnerships and supporting a demand-driven basis, aligning with country-driven strategies and procedures

PANEL DISCUSSION: Selecting the right partners to leverage new technologies in clinical research

  • Understanding the risks and opportunities in collaborating with technology providers to drive innovation in pharma
  • Key criteria in vendor selection: How important is therapeutic area knowledge when choosing CROs and partners?
  • Balancing patient, site, CRO and investor priorities in your trial design
  • Navigating the outsourcing landscape: An overview of new tools and solutions available on the market

Moderator: Amanda Murphy, Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Solutions, GlobalData