Last week’s MAGI Clinical Research Conference was attended by a fervent group of clinical research partners representing research sites, CROs, sponsors, and vendors (I’d estimate the proportion of attendees in each category as 50%, 20%, 20%, and 10% respectively). In each of the sessions I attended, an honest discussion and dialogue took place between these parties [...]
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My name is Jae and I am the founder/CEO of goBalto, a venture-backed SF based company, that delivers easy to use web products for clinical research. When I’m not leading my kick-a$$ team at goBalto, I am a mentor to the kick-a$$ teams at Rock Health, a seed accelerator for healthcare startups. I recently learned [...]
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Authored by Sherry Reuter Interview with a Patient… We often talk about the challenges of Patient Recruitment and Retention in conducting clinical trials and speculate on ways to improve our performance. But how often do we go straight to the source to talk to study subjects about how we could do better? I decided to [...]
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“Don’t stop believin’…. Hold on to that feelin’….”- Journey This is a post I envisaged writing 3 months ago when I first ran into Darren Hite, (principal at Aberdare Ventures), at the Rock Health launch party. Today our company, goBalto, announced a Series A round of financing to advance cloud-based technologies in clinical research. From [...]
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Authored by Sherry Reuter Patient Customer Service? Customer Service is not a term that is usually discussed in the realm of clinical research. Why has this concept not been utilized more in our industry? For one thing, how Patient-Centric has clinical research really been? The focus has been on the research activities required per the [...]
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Drum roll please….say hello to our new CTO, Kris! Kris Wehner recently joined the growing ranks of goBalto. He will be leading the goBalto engineering team and driving the technology strategy as our Chief Technology Officer. A Brief History Kris received his MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He got [...]
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Dear Friends, By now, everyone is discussing the impact Steve Jobs has had on the world. When I first heard the news it was a surreal moment of trying to grasp the reality of a world without Steve. My first reaction was shock, followed by sadness and finally in reflection of the “dent” he made in [...]
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Study sites have numerous responsibilities and must perform a daunting number of tasks. The one aspect of conducting clinical trials that sites usually spend the most time working on is Patient Recruitment, and yet, statistics show that despite their efforts, reaching enrollment goals per timeline is frustratingly elusive in many studies. The September 2011 volume [...]
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