"The potential for the pharmaceuticals industry in the Middle East is vast, and growing. Clinical research is also growing, alongside pharma, in the region, despite variations in situation from country to country, and despite certain barriers that still need to be solved. The challenges of regulations and patient recruitment, in particular, are analysed. We take a specifc look at one of the most established countries in the region for clinical trials, Turkey, to see how it might act as a model for the rest of the region."

Link to Journal for Clinical Studies, Volume 9, Issue 3: www.jforcs.com/regulations-recruitment-experiences-middle-east

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Original publication date: May 24, 2017.

"Digitalisation in the health sector is in full swing. Switzerland is well positioned, but must be careful not to be overtaken by old and new competitors, according to serial entrepreneur Ulf Claesson. Active himself in this field with Clinerion, Claesson knows the situation first hand ..."

Link: www.startupticker.ch/en/news/may-2017/in-switzerland-we-are-not-aggressive-enough

Taking the supposed date of the very first clinical trial, for scurvy, by ship surgeon James Lind, aboard the HMS Salisbury, International Clinical Trials Day celebrates the practice of clinical trials itself, as well as recognizing the practitioners whose efforts contribute to the advancement of medicine and public health. The Day also acts to raise awareness among the general public on the benefits of the practice.

Link (ACRP): www.clinicaltrialsday.org
​Link (ECRIN): www.ecrin.org/event/international-clinical-trials-day-2017

On Monday, May 15, 2017, Clinerion ran a seminar on “Accelerating Clinical Research in Brazil” with the support of the Consulate General of Switzerland, in São Paulo.

The event was very well attended and featured speakers across the field of clinical research, which included the Brazilian association for Clinical Research, Aliança; the Patient Society of Multiple Sclerosis, ABEM; the iHealth Group; and the International Clinical Trial Center Network, ICN.

Attendees included representatives from several public and private hospitals, the president of the Brazilian Federal University Hospitals Network (EBSERH), CROs and pharmaceutical companies. 

The event allowed the attendees to exchange and discuss the great, new opportunity for the Brazilian clinical research community to expand its role as a major world player in the field of clinical research with the passing of the "PL200" law in the Brazilian Senate; and the exciting tools, techniques and technologies which are the way forward.

Read our full report on the event, here >

"Clinerion will be running an open seminar event in São Paulo on May 15th, 2017, presenting cutting-edge techniques and technologies which can increase the speed, efficiency and competitiveness of Brazilian clinical trials. The event is supported by the Consulate General of Switzerland in São Paulo, and will take place at the official residence of the Consul General."

See the event on our Events page >

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“Clinical trials bring many benefits to a country’s economy, to hospitals, physicians and patients,” says Clinerion’s newly appointed Head of EEMEA Region, Bariş Erdoğan, PhD. “Now, hospitals in the EEMEA region have the opportunity to take a share of the global market for clinical trials. Clinerion offers them an effective way to come to the attention of trial sponsors and bring new studies to their countries.”

Clinerion solutions for the EEMEA Region will next be presented in attendance at the "Emerging Markets Forum: Pharma and OTC go-to-market strategies, partnerships and market access" meeting in Berlin, Germany (March 13-14, 2017), and the Clinical Trials in Central and Eastern Europe conference in Budapest, Hungary (April 25-26, 2017).

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Original publication date: February 20, 2017.

Link: http://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Product-Categories/Phase-III-IV/Clinerion-enters-Asia-through-strategic-alliance-with-ASUS-Life

The new alliance between Clinerion and ASUS Life helps shorten the time it takes to bring a new drug to market, benefitting patients who get earlier access to new medicines.

With this collaboration, researchers at hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations gain real-time, EHR-based insight on the Taiwanese patient population. Eligible patients can subsequently be recruited by trial staff at Show Chwan’s 8 hospital sites. The collaboration will also enable the matching of patients with medications for rare and orphan diseases and the generation of data for real-world evidence analyses.

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Original publication date: January 16, 2017.

"To strengthen its presence in this new market, Clinerion has forged a partnership with the iHealth Group of Brazil, which operates 40 hospitals, with a total patient population of 25 million. The iHealth Group’s role is to make consistent quality electronic health records (EHRs) data available, signifcantly broadening the number of patients who could potentially participate in trials.

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Original Publication Date: December 12, 2016.

“Before PRS, our study team recruited 15 patients in six months,” the Cardiology Institute respondent continued. “With PRS they enrolled 36 additional patients, which took less than two months and solely from screening only 15% of PRS’s patient list.”

Link: www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/solutions-driving-efficiency-clinical-trials

This article was based on Clinerion's recent white paper and case study, investigating feedback gathered from current users of Patient Recruitment System.

• White Paper: Clinerion’s Patient Recruitment System (PRS): A big data solution for patient recruitment for more effective and cost efficient clinical trials. >
• Case Study: Healthcare User Experience: Clinerion Patient Recruitment System (PRS). >

Clinerion’s Patient Recruitment System (PRS) Patient Finder tool has a wealth of health data which can now be harnessed to guide pharmaceutical companies in their R&D and commercial decision making by providing information on the prevalence of target diseases and the distribution of patient populations.

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"Ulf Claesson provides a fascinating and passionate account of how his firm is aiming to remove ‘guesswork’ and estimations for medical practices whilst highlighting interesting developments in the global clinical research industry."

Note: this article is free to read, but behind a registration wall.

Link: www.pharmaboardroom.com/interviews/interview-ulf-claesson-ceo-clinerion-switzerland

Link: www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Commercial-Services/Clinerion-Patient-Recruitment-System-enters-South-America

With iHealth joining PRS, pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations sponsoring clinical trials will gain real-time, EHR-based insight on the Brazilian patient population. Sponsors using PRS will be able to evaluate the distribution of eligible patients at iHealth’s sites during the development of a trial protocol and site selection for their clinical trials. These candidates can then be identified and recruited by the sites, themselves. Access to patient data in real-time enables more effective and efficient recruitment, especially for time-dependent criteria. Patient data also becomes available for matching patients with medications for rare and orphan diseases and the generation of data for real-world evidence.

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Link: www.worldpharmatoday.com/Articles/scalability-and-patient-data-security-in-the-age-of-clinical-trial-recruitment-using-electronic-medical-records-an-infrastructure-solution

The IU Dentistry School specializes in all fields of dentistry, from Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery to Prosthodontics, from Periodontology to Pediatric Dentistry, Endodontics to Orthodontics. The hospital treated over 97,500 patients in the past year.

“We see a great benefit for our patients as well as for our hospital,” says Prof. Dr. Gülsüm Ak, the Dean of the Dentistry School. “PRS will bring our patients access to innovative new treatments, while the Dentistry School will gain higher exposure and visibility for leading edge clinical research.”

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Clinerion announces a new service and use case for its Patient Recruitment System (PRS). The PRS Patient Finder tool can now be used to give patients requiring personalized, precision, or orphan treatments access to new medicines earlier, and give physicians additional options in treating them.

With the new service, patients in “hard-to-reach” populations, such as patients with rare diseases and patients requiring personalized treatments, can be matched with new, targeted treatments. As patients with rare diseases are de facto very rare, connecting the patient to an innovative treatment is often very inefficient without a technological solution in place ...

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The Clinerion-supported hospitals in Turkey will complete an online training program and earn Clinpal Readiness Certification. The training ensures each hospital has key stakeholders with the skills necessary to solicit, enroll and engage study patients through its use of the Clinpal technology.

Link to press release: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161103006251/en/eClinicalHealth-Clinerion-Launch-Clinpal-Readiness-Certification-Hospitals

Link: www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Clinical-Development/Clinerion-patient-recruitment-system-compliant-with-privacy-directives

The expert concluded that Clinerion’s procedures for de-identification and pseudonymization meet the anonymization requirements set forth in international privacy directives, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and judged them consistent with best practices to ensure that the risk of re-identification was sufficiently small, statistically.

Recent developments have shown the real benefits arising from the use of big data analytics techniques to interrogate EHR-databases at hospitals directly. With the right software infrastructure, eligible patients can be discovered based on complex combinations of query criteria, and in real-time. Trial managers can unearth more candidates, quicker.

But this development raises questions for patient privacy: using these electronic methods, are an individual’s personal details at risk of arriving in unauthorized hands?

In this paper, we examine the technological and legislative environments, analyse the ensuing risks, and propose some best practice methods for mitigating these risks.

Link to September 2016 edition of the Journal for Clinical Studies: https://issuu.com/mark123/docs/50_jcs_september2016_web

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We are working hard to bring even more new technology solutions to PRS, and to improve the user experience. Version 4 makes it even more useful and supportive of the needs of our users.

Clinerion.com has evolved to be better than ever! If you're reading this, you're already here - please have fun exploring the new site. We hope you enjoy the experience!

Clinerion will present their Patient Recruitment System, which makes patient recruitment for clinical trials quicker and more efficient, in a rolling series of webinars targeted at each region.

Go to the Clinerion webinars page >

Traditional methods of fnding suitable candidates for clinical trials are time-intensive and cost drug companies millions, putting the development of new medicines at risk and elevating prices. New techniques borrowed from big data analytics allow the process to be completed much more effciently.

Link to August 2016 edition of International Clinical Trials: www.samedanltd.com/magazine/13

The patent, “Semantic Interoperability System for Medicinal Information” (U.S. Patent US20130030827 A1, Publication date: January 31, 2013), is used in the semantic search and indexing component at the backend of Patient Recruitment System. This technology applies rules on semantic elements, mostly elements of medical terminologies, on how to link them with patient data for an improved and high-performance indexing and optimized search results.

Congratulations to our team!

Read more about our unique, patented technology >

The Business Intelligence Group has announced that Clinerion has been recognized as a Finalist in their annual Stratus Awards for Cloud Computing. The organization sought to identify the companies, products and people that are offering unique solutions that take advantage of cloud technologies ...

Business Intelligence Group Press Release: 26 Companies That Prove the Cloud is Dominating Globally.

Link: www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Commercial-Services/eClinicalHealth-and-Clinerion-collaborate

Clinerion and eClinicalHealth, innovative companies working in the area of electronic patient recruitment, announce a collaboration between the two companies and their respective platforms, Clinerion’s Patient Recruitment System and eClinicalHealth’s Clinpal.

Under the terms of the collaboration, Clinerion and eClinicalHealth will leverage the complementary nature of their respective technologies by offering them in tandem to hospitals and sponsor companies/CROs.

Link: www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Commercial-Services/Clinerion-patient-recruitment-system-selected-as-official-service-for-ICN-members

Clinerion and the International Clinical Trial Center Network (ICN) announce the adoption of Clinerion’s Patient Recruitment System (PRS) as an officially recommended service for members of the ICN. PRS’s three modules, Protocol Designer, Site Finder and Patient Finder, bring leading-edge medical informatics innovations to this network, which includes many of the world’s premier clinical research institutions.

Clinerion will introduce the disruptive innovation brought to clinical research by its Patient Recruitment System (PRS) at the UK e-Health Week, at the Olympia exhibition centre, London, April 19-20, 2016. Clinerion will give live demonstrations of PRS at Booth #45, as well as a presentation on the “TED Talks” stage on the exhibition floor.

Link: www.superbcrew.com/clinerion-revolutionizes-patient-recruitment

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Link: CWWeekly.

Clinerion will introduce its clinical research solutions in North America at SCOPE, the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives, and HX360, the Executive Forum for health and technology innovation (part of the HIMSS Health IT Conference). At both events, Clinerion will give live demonstrations of its Patient Recruitment System (PRS) and Quality Risk Management (QRM) system ...

Efficient risk management becomes a survival kit for a modern pharmaceutical company. How should one select from the available Risk-based Monitoring (RBM) solutions? This article explains the main principles of Risk-based Monitoring, refers to the changing regulatory environment (GCP addendum E6-R2) and categorizes available RBM technologies by IT infrastructure, data sourcing, assessment frequency, risk areas and feature-sets. Moreover, it provides a simple to follow framework for RBM technology selection and a systematic five-step RBM rollout consisting of: proof concept, pilot project, lessons learned, adjustment of RBM and final rollout ...

Clinerion, an eClinical technology services provider located in Basel, Switzerland, and the Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES), a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based non-profit organization operating in the public interest and dedicated to building a global system to enhance quality, safety, integrity and operational effectiveness in biomedical product development and health research, are pleased to announce their partnership for accelerating patient recruitment and promoting risk-based quality management ...

Depending on your role in the organization you may have been confronted with the topic of “Risk-based Monitoring”, “Fit for Purpose Monitoring”, “Targeted Monitoring” or some other permutations of the same basic theme in one context or another. You may be wondering what's all the fuss about or you may even have been tasked with the goal of setting up a new monitoring approach at your organization. In either case, this article has something of interest for you as it is a practical guide which explains how one can successfully improve the effectiveness of one’s current site monitoring practices and ultimately the quality of work done at clinical trial sites. The article provides an overview of traditional monitoring practices and a new monitoring initiative in the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally it lays the foundation for a SMART Monitoring approach and provides advice on enabling technology ...

Link: www.centerwatch.com/news-online/2014/11/12/clinerion-launches-real-time-patient-recruitment-system-to-boost-trial-recruitment

Clinerion has become a member of the Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES) Technology Consortium, which aims to create an IT platform using existing technologies to fast-track the development of an integrated interface for: sharing of professional credentials, site-capability profiles and demographics for site-qualification assessments; online performance dashboard; risk-based quality management analytics and support; and cloud-based tools for enhanced compliance, safety-reporting and monitoring.

ACRES Press Release: www.prweb.com/releases/GKoskiACRES/TechConsortium/prweb11864883.htm

Clinerion is dedicated to promoting the Swiss software sector both in Switzerland and abroad.

The label "swiss made software" embraces Swiss values in software development and has now over 200 member companies. For a product to be labeled as "swiss made software", the following conditions must be met:

• The Swiss share in the production value must be at least 60 percent.
• The key production process must have taken place in Switzerland

Link: www.swissmadesoftware.org.