Central Designer

As the use of electronic data capture (EDC) for clinical studies becomes more prevalent, life sciences companies are re-examining how they implement this technology to maximize operational efficiencies. One high-potential area for improving efficiency is the study design process where a protocol is transformed into a completely built EDC study. This multi-dimensional process involves a broad range of critical tasks performed by a wide variety of professionals. While first-generation electronic design tools focused mainly on individual components of study design, they lacked the sophisticated, centralized design environment needed to accommodate today's increasingly complicated and geographically expanding studies.

Phase Forward has developed a next-generation study design environment called Central Designer™ to help life sciences companies dramatically streamline their study development process. The new environment surpasses the capabilities of typical design tools by taking advantage of the latest technology and Phase Forward’s years of experience to enhance design efficiency and study component reuse, improve workflow and simultaneous global collaboration, and effectively apply standards throughout the organization. These enhancements are designed to enable you to reduce build time, improve data quality and shorten trial delivery time to the InForm™ ITM EDC platform.

Features

  • Templates can be created and reused to populate common study components
  • Advanced library search and retrieval capabilities allow easy access to existing study components including their associated rules
  • “Rules Wizard” interface takes users step-by-step through the process of creating a rule -- dramatically simplifying rule development
  • New library and data mapping capabilities enable you to apply industry standards (e.g., SDTM) and company standards more efficiently and consistently
  • Multi-user environment provides easy and secure real-time access to study
    development from anywhere in the world
  • Design, programming, data management and translation all work from one centralized system