Advarra announced the launch of the Advarra Site-Sponsor Consortium. This unique collaboration, beginning with more than 20 leading research sites, life sciences companies, standards bodies, and industry organizations, aims to seamlessly connect site and sponsor technology, addressing key inefficiencies currently experienced across the clinical research ecosystem. The consortium membership will continue to expand over time to ensure this effort mirrors the diverse makeup of the clinical research ecosystem.
The consortium is facilitated by Advarra, whose site-centric, cloud-based practice management for clinical research platform supports more than 50,000 investigators across academic medical centers, health systems, sites, and site networks, as well as 86% of NCI-designated cancer centers, and 70% of top NIH-funded institutions. Site technology has evolved to provide full operational, regulatory, and data management for clinical trials, but often lacks interoperability with similar sponsor systems. As a result, sites are asked to use trial-specific, sponsor-mandated technology, resulting in duplicative, inefficient workflows. A recent survey sponsored by Advarra and Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS) found that:
- 86% of sites prefer to use at least some of their own technology solutions to manage and conduct industry trials
- More than 60% of sites reported that existing sponsor-provided e-clinical solutions designed to enable site-sponsor connections actually increased their burden
- 28% of sites spend more than 15 hours per week interacting with sponsor systems
- 68% of sites currently use at least 4-6 sponsor-mandated systems per study
"Research sites have a unique and valuable perspective that we must take into consideration when developing and deploying technology to clinical trials," said Jonathan Shough, President, Technology Solutions at Advarra and key advocate for the consortium. "Advarra believes a site-centric, patient-focused approach is needed to solve longstanding process and workflow challenges faced by the clinical research industry. Our strategic relationships with sites, life sciences companies, and CROs put Advarra in a unique position to bring together leaders in the industry, meeting this challenge head-on and building a site-centric connected ecosystem."
The Advarra-led consortium will address these challenges through improved data standards, process workflows, reporting, and system integration, as well as the implementation of cloud-based software technology. Guided by close collaboration with the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), members will outline a common language necessary to exchange data between stakeholders.
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