What makes a clinical investigation run smoothly?

In today’s conversation, you’ll hear from Jon Bergsteinsson as we speak about electronic data capture for clinical investigations.

Jon has a master’s degree in biomedical engineering and is the founder of SMART-TRIAL by Greenlight Guru, which helps MedTech companies close the gap between their devices and clinical data. He was the CTO of SMART-TRIAL from 2013 to 2017, and since then has been leading SMART-TRIAL’s clinical operations. His valuable insights come from 10 years of experience in the MedTech clinical space plus a strong technical background.

Listen to today’s episode to hear what Jon has to say about using Electronic Data Capture (EDC) systems in clinical investigations, the importance of data quality and what that really means, the tools available for clinical investigations, and educating leadership about clinical investigations.

Some of the highlights of this episode include:

The biggest challenges companies face during clinical investigations
What kinds of tools are available for clinical Investigations
The relationship between data quality and formatting
The impact a purpose-built tool has on a company
The costs associated with clinical investigations
Educating leadership about clinical operations
What makes the best stand out

Memorable quotes from Jón I. Bergsteinsson:

“Data quality has everything to do with how you format your data.”

“The leadership just doesn’t have that much of an understanding of what clinical operations do, so they need to be educated.”

“When you have a person who’s very efficient, you can get 100 attributes in a couple of minutes.”

“Digital first is what sets the best from the rest.”

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