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NextDocs enables clinical collaboration
9 April 2010
NextDocs has launched its Clinical Collaboration Portal, which is designed to help life sciences companies facilitate collaboration during clinical trials with external participants such as clinical researchers, laboratories, and physicians in a secure and easily navigable environment.
The new portal is a major enhancement to NextDocs’ current Clinical Documents Module, which focuses on internal collaboration. Release 3.7 focuses on enhanced information exchange between trial sponsors, contract research organisations, clinical investigator sites, independent review boards and labs.
The Clinical Collaboration Portal brings all the critical components together into a single, intuitive user experience specifically designed for life sciences companies.
Matt Walz, NextDocs Built on Microsoft SharePoint Server, the Clinical Collaboration Portal is the next step in the company’s life sciences offerings, which already include clinical, regulatory, quality, marketing and legal solutions.
“NextDocs has been delivering clinical solutions based on the SharePoint platform for several years,” said Matt Walz, chief technology officer at NextDocs. “We created the Clinical Collaboration Portal in response to requests from our clients, who wanted to not only manage clinical trial documentation, but find a way to involve external constituents. The Clinical Collaboration Portal brings all the critical components together into a single, intuitive user experience specifically designed for life sciences companies.”
Security is a critical feature of the Clinical Collaboration Portal, which is built on the NextDocs Compliance Platform for SharePoint Server and introduces features to support Secure Extranet Collaboration.
NextDocs unveiled the new portal at its ShareFEST conference in Philadelphia.
“Microsoft SharePoint is, far and away, the most robust collaboration platform available in the market today,” said Chet Shemanski, director of product management at NextDocs. “Customers have been in need of easy access to clinical information and effective exchange of information among clinical trial collaborators for some time. With SharePoint and the Clinical Collaboration Portal from NextDocs, we now have the tools necessary to fulfil that need and ultimately improve operational efficiency.”
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