Partners & Affiliations
Merge Healthcare believes in the power of partnerships and we seek strategic relationships with service and technology providers that share our mission to help companies improve and accelerate the complex and regulatory-driven process associated with collecting data for clinical trials.
Affiliations
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Merge Healthcare is a proud member of CDISC, a global, open, multidisciplinary, non-profit organization that has established standards to support the acquisition, exchange, submission and archive of clinical research data and metadata. The CDISC mission is to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards that enable information system interoperability to improve medical research and related areas of healthcare. CDISC standards are vendor-neutral, platform-independent and freely available via the CDISC website. |
CRO and Clinical Services Partners:
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Cato Research is a contract research organization (CRO) that provides integrated services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. We specialize in complex development programs requiring innovative regulatory and clinical strategies, and we have experience implementing and conducting successful clinical trials and development programs. As a midsize CRO, Cato Research offers a complete range of services with personalized attention and flexibility. The relationships we create with our sponsors produce positive, tangible results. |
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InfoQuest Clinical Network, Inc. (IQCNI), a clinical services network, partners with pharmaceutical, medical device and biomedical companies to provide innovative clinical operations solutions for Phase I - IV clinical trials. The InfoQuest network and services are managed through IQNet™, a tiered project management system that provides superior, cost-effective and customized services to meet clinical operations needs in full compliance with protocols, applicable regulations and guidelines. By providing the technology to help InfoQuest offer electronic data capture services, etrials complements the company's offerings while extending solutions throughout the clinical trials industry. |
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Monitorforhire.com is the leading Web-enabled resource management company providing qualified, regional independent clinical monitors to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and contract research industries. etrials has partnered with Monitorforhire.com to pre-train clinical monitors to use the data capture systems. |
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Ockham is a Global Contract Research (CRO) and Functional Service Provider (FSP) organization headquartered in Cary, North Carolina (near the university-biotech-pharmaceutical sciences nexus known internationally as Research Triangle Park). Satellite offices strategically placed around the United States, in India and the U.K. underpin Ockham’s global customers and operations.
Ockham provides high-quality, global clinical research and strategic development services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, assisting them in the achievement of their strategic planning, technology transfer, licensing, regulatory planning and submissions, pre-clinical development, and manufacturing goals. Ockham also provides fully integrated clinical trials support in the areas of Clinical Operations, Data Management and Biostatistics, as well as Regulatory dossier compilations. In addition, it offers functional and specialty resourcing services to pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies that require Clinical Operations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), or Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) auditing, Data Management, Statistical Programming, Biostatistics, and Medical Writing solutions. |
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Omnicare Clinical Research, Inc., a subsidiary of Omnicare, Inc. (NYSE: OCR), maintains a global presence in 44 countries by offering full-service clinical research capabilities in all major therapeutic areas. Coupled with a customer-centric focus, Omnicare provides clients with exceptional service throughout all phases of drug development. The company’s global, integrated network offers a presence in strategic markets around the world, including those with emerging opportunities such as China, India and Latin America for patient recruitment and share penetration. Omnicare has contributed to the successful approval of 59 NDAs/BLAs, 22 European MAAs, 117 national filings, 7 Orphan Drug Applications and many more IND, CTA, CTX, CTN to date across all European and Asia-Pacific locations. etrials and Omnicare have partnered to develop and tailor studies for clients to improve patient enrollment, provide access to cleaner data faster and shorten study timelines |
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QED Clinical Services Ltd is a ground breaking CRO which offers intelligent global clinical solutions, specifically designed to meet the individual needs of pharmaceutical and biotech sponsors. With a presence across all major continents, including emerging regions such as Asia Pacific, QED provides superior quality in clinical monitoring, project management, clinical trial submissions, investigator recruitment and training, logistics and auditing. QED has significantly lower than industry turnover rates within their clinical teams, which guarantees consistency of quality and delivery across all phases of drug development and all key therapy areas. QED’s unique but proven operating model also results in decreased overheads leading to considerably lower rates for sponsors. Whether a strategic outsourcing solution is required or a more traditional approach is needed, QED is naturally structured with high scalability to work as a Functional Service Provider (FSP) or on a project-by-project basis. Whatever the requirement, QED has the flexibility, quality and cost effectiveness to deliver. |
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Bluebird Soft Inc., leading provider of mobile computing devices, is committed to meeting ever-changing needs of global customers, along with partners in more than 70 countries around the world. By partnering with Bluebird Soft, etrials is offering an eDiary solution using a ruggedized touch screen Pidion device. Equipped with state-of-the-art PDA technologies, the company strives to help its customers increase sales and reduce costs through the productivity and efficiency capabilities of its device solutions. Bluebird Soft continues its best efforts in meeting the needs of customers with top products and services. |
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Dell™, a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services, is focused on providing innovative technology solutions directly to customers. In partnering with Dell, etrials is able to offer a highly functional and cost-effective device for the clinical trials industry. Handheld devices are used as electronic patient diaries to collect quality-of-life data. |
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About Roche and the Roche Diagnostics Division — Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As a supplier of innovative products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts to improving people's health and quality of life. Roche is a world leader in diagnostics, the leading supplier of drugs for cancer and transplantation and a market leader in virology. In 2006, sales by the Pharmaceuticals Division totaled 33.3 billion Swiss francs, and the Diagnostics Division posted sales of 8.7 billion Swiss francs. Roche employs roughly 75,000 people in 150 countries and has R&D agreements and strategic alliances with numerous partners, including majority ownership interests in Genentech and Chugai. Roche's Diagnostics Division offers a uniquely broad product portfolio and supplies a wide array of innovative testing products and services to researchers, physicians, patients, hospitals and laboratories world-wide. |
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With over 15 years' experience, TransPerfect is the leading provider of global clinical trial support to the life sciences industry. Equipped with an ISO 9001:2000-certified quality management system, rigorously-tested medical linguists, and round-the-clock production capabilities, we furnish the highest-quality translation and business services exactly when our clients need them. We also offer cutting edge technologies that reduce costs and improve consistency, making TransPerfect the vendor of choice for medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare marketing, and CRO companies around the world. TransPerfect offers over 50 client service locations on 4 continents. |
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Peak 10 is the Southeast’s leading data center services provider offering a full range of hosting, storage, security and business continuity solutions. etrials relies on Peak 10 to keep business critical applications up and running around-the-clock. The company owns and operates five enterprise-class data centers that deliver a higher standard of infrastructure, security and performance to businesses nationwide. Peak 10 has data centers in Louisville, KY, Charlotte and Raleigh, NC, as well as Jacksonville and Tampa, FL. For more information about data centers visit: www.peak10.com >> |