The 7th annual Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials (DPharm) conference will take place September 7-8, 2017, at the Marriott Copley Place, in Boston, MA. Disruptive Innovations is an event for clinical trial professionals. It is a TED-style conference, highlighting innovations through presentations from some of life science’s most prominent forward-thinkers. DPharm is also a […]
SCOPE Highlights from 5 Clinical Trial Innovators
This year Rebar attended the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) from January 24th -26th in Miami, Florida. We caught up with five clinical trial innovators who participated in this year’s SCOPE and asked the following question: What’s the most valuable piece of knowledge or insight that you walked away from SCOPE with? Michelle Crouthamel, […]
Disruptive Innovations 2016: Five Innovators Explain Why You Don’t Want To Miss Out
Each year, hundreds of clinical trial innovators gather to exchange ideas and network with like-minded peers at the Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials conference. This year the conference, which is also known as dPharm, is being held September 20-21st at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, MA. We caught up with five leading innovators […]
Social Media for Patient Recruitment: Finally Embraced by Pharma?
Big Pharma may finally be embracing social media for clinical trial engagement and recruitment. Though pharma has experimented with social media for patient recruitment in recent years, its involvement has been tepid. In 2012, I wrote a post detailing the three major social media options for patient recruitment — listen, borrow, and build. Most of […]
5 Ways ResearchKit is Changing Clinical Research
NOTE: I first wrote this post for the Lilly Clinical Innovation blog. It is being republished here with their permission. In the 10 months since launch, Apple’s ResearchKit has achieved some impressive milestones: Over 100,000 people signed up to participate in ResearchKit studies 50 developers contributed an assortment of platform enhancements Companies like Quintiles and […]
What Google Can Teach You About Clinical Trial Education & Awareness
Google handles over 1 trillion searches a year. That’s more than 33 searches a month for each person worldwide who uses the Internet. These figures do not include almost a third of total searches worldwide since Google’s global market share is about 70%. People do a lot of searching. Search engine queries provide a window […]
Designing Your Clinical Trial Recruitment Website
Note: This post has been adapted from a guest post series I wrote on behalf of AccrualNet and has been published here with their permission. When I talk to clinical researchers about digital marketing strategy, their interest is most commonly focused on traffic sources. How can I recruit patients using Google Adwords? Should I use […]
Impact of the Mobile Web on Clinical Trial Awareness & Recruitment
Welcome attendees of the 2015 Mobile in Clinical Trials conference! This post has been created as a companion to a talk presented by Gerald Matczak and I, titled “Impact of the Mobile Web on Clinical Trial Awareness & Recruitment.” You will get the most out of this post if you were present for our talk. […]
Great Facebook Pages for Research Sites (2015 SoCRA Presentation)
Welcome attendees of SoCRA’s 2015 workshop Harnessing Social Media to Advance Clinical Research! I’ve compiled a list of 40+ links and resources as a companion to my talk, which was titled “Great Facebook Pages for Research Sites.” (Download slides here.) I’m also in the process of putting together additional content related to this presentation. If […]
Apple ResearchKit (Part 1): Introduction & Capabilities
NOTE: I first wrote this post for the Lilly Clinical Open Innovation (LCOI) blog. It is being republished here with their permission. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Apple has a knack for making technology that, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, feels a bit magical. It turns out that’s […]
