Veeda Clinical Research Implements Clintrial

Ahmedabad-based Veeda Clinical Research (Veeda CR), a clinical research organisation with presence in Europe, India and USA, has implemented Clintrial, a Clinical Data Management tool to strengthen its data management backbone. Clintrial will provide Veeda CR easy integration with other systems in the clinical trial space resulting in secure and faster access to time-sensitive data.

Clintrial was jointly implemented at Veeda CR by Phase Forward and IBM India. The implementation process included IBM installing Clintrial, configuring a Pilot Clinical Study chosen by Veeda, providing validation services to meet regulatory requirements, providing support to the Veeda team and project managing the overall implementation. Product vendor Phase Forward provided training on Clintrial to all users at Veeda CR’s global units.

Marie-Paule, head of Biometrics at Veeda said, “The selection of Clintrial was based on its track record in improving efficiency and thereby, accelerating drug development timelines. Easy integration of external data enables us to provide the sponsor faster access to fully validated data.”

Apurva Shah, co-group managing director and co-founder of Veeda said, “We would like to capitalise on 18 years of Biometrics experience of our Belgian unit and expand our Indian team substantially for offering Biometric services like data management, statistical analysis (including programming) and medical writing. At Veeda, we have always had a commitment towards quality, Clintrial will enhance our clinical research data quality and it will optimise our capability and help us meet our business goals faster”.

Sandip Patel, managing partner, Global Business Services, IBM India and South Asia, said, “IBM is committed to providing the IT infrastructure, implementation and support services needed to streamline clinical development efforts in India. In order to enhance competitive advantage, it is critical to optimise the value of information assets in industries like clinical research.”

The implementation of Clintrial is expected to enable Veeda to focus on its core competencies in delivering high quality data and simultaneously pave the way forward for new CDM capabilities. ( www.moneycontrol.com )