17 June 2009

The Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI) in the USA has expanded its use of products and services from clinical trial technology solution provider TranSenda International.

In order to continue the process of simplifying its existing systems to manage and monitor various spreadsheets, information and documents related to clinical trials, HCRI has migrated from using TranSenda’s Clinical Trial Manager product to Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager and Office-Smart Clinical Payment Manager. This deployment also includes the purchase of ClinBus Connector along with professional services to consolidate existing data sets into a single repository for clinical trial management and related operational data.

Connecting our Microsoft Office tools to work in conjunction with our study software represents an important step toward simplifying our environment

Robert Leonard, HCRI By adding Office-Smart solutions to its organisation, HCRI can now take advantage of advanced capabilities that allow integration between Clinical Trial Manager and the Microsoft Office System. Office-Smart solutions also use TranSenda’s ClinBus data interchange technology to make data available through Microsoft SharePoint Server. Among other advantages, ClinBus enables the use of SharePoint data grids to connect Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and databases, including Microsoft Access, to Office-Smart solutions for data import or integration. With this new level of connectivity, HCRI can now use previously hard-to-get-to data for the creation of SharePoint Web sites and dashboards – and to make better use of their existing Office tools, including Excel, Access, Outlook and Word.

In addition to consolidating Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data, HCRI will also be integrating Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager with a number of clinical trial data management systems, including Electronic Data Capture system(s) as well as its Web-based learning management system.

“Creating a single repository within Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager will significantly help with the managing of what are now three independent processes supported by multiple systems,” said Robert Leonard, chief information officer at HCRI. “We also look forward to the fundamental improvements TranSenda’s Office-Smart solutions can help bring to our clinical operations. Connecting our Microsoft Office tools to work in conjunction with our study software represents an important step toward simplifying our environment.”

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