SCDM Data Driven Innovation Award honors Phase Forward-Merck collaboration to speed data loading

Oct. 14, 2009 - PRLog -- SEATTLE – The Society for Clinical Data Management has awarded its annual Data Driven Innovation Award to Phase Forward for developing a technology that increased external data loading rates 100-fold.

The Data Driven Innovation Award recognizes the year’s best advancement in CDM technology or service resulting from a vendor-sponsor partnership. All exhibiting and sponsoring companies at the SCDM Annual Conference are eligible.

Five finalists competing for the award demonstrated their projects to a panel of judges during the SCDM Annual Conference, the largest educational event in the clinical data management industry. The award was presented at a reception Monday, October 5.

“SCDM was thrilled with the quantity and quality of entries in the third annual Data Driven Innovation Award,” said Brenda Hoeper, conference co-chair. “We feel privileged to recognize innovations in the CDM discipline that have demonstrated evidence of adding value to the clinical trial process.”

In implementing electronic data capture at client Merck & Co., Phase Forward needed to develop a faster, more accurate data loader to avoid project delays. The resulting solution, called Direct Data Loader, increased the data loading from an estimated 1,000 records per hour to 100,000 and led to an 80% drop in errors.

Contest judges gave the Phase Forward project high marks for addressing a significant clinical data management problem, for innovation and for the collaboration between the vendor and sponsor.

“We’re honored to share this award recognizing the creative and collaborative efforts of the Merck/Phase Forward team,” said Bob Weiler, chairman and CEO, Phase Forward. “From its inception, when the team solicited feedback from stakeholders in the process to define the project, through its development and implementation, the team focused on its objectives of delivering a high performance solution while achieving the greatest business benefit possible.”

Also considered in the competition were projects from BioClinica-Amylin, BioClinica-Pozen, Greenway-Nextrials and Medidata-Array.

The Society for Clinical Data Management is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in clinical data management through professional development, education and certification. Established in 1994, SCDM has more than 2,600 members with an interest in advancing data management practices. For additional information, please visit www.scdm.org.

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The Society for Clinical Data Management is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in clinical data management through professional development, education and certification.