OpenClinica Community and Enterprise Editions

Dear OpenClinica Community,
We are only hours away now from the general release of OpenClinica 3.0. There is a ton of excitement here at Akaza as we get ready to see many months of hard work come to fruition.
In advance of this milestone I’d like to describe a few changes we’re making to how OpenClinica is [...]

OpenClinica 3.0 Features Preview: Part III

Welcome to the 3rd and final installment of the OpenClinica 3.0 features preview!  This post covers the new Web Services interface that is part of 3.0 and the job scheduler that can be used to automate Data Import and Data Export jobs.
OpenClinica 3.0 allows for programmatic interaction with external applications to reduce manual data entry [...]

Selling open source without mentioning open source

I am a regular reader of  “The Open Road” blog by Matt Assay on news.com. In one of his latest posts, “Getting open-source criticism wrong”, he does a great job of making the case that commercial open source software is about ease of adoption, flexibility, and choice.
It struck a chord because my sales team and [...]

Facilitated Data Entry of Lab Results Using OpenClinica’s New Web Services Feature

As mentioned previously, we at Geneuity Clinical Research Services are big fans of OpenClinica and are even more so now with the upcoming release of version 3.0 with its new web services capability.  This article describes how we exploit this new feature to help automate entry of lab results, a particularly important topic given that [...]

An Opportunity for Transformational Change in Clinical Trials

Life sciences research is recognized as one of the most technologically advanced, groundbreaking endeavors of modern times. Nevertheless until very recently the preferred technology for executing the most critical, costly stage of the R&D process – clinical trials – has been paper forms. Only in 2008 did adoption of electronic alternatives to paper forms take [...]

OpenClinica and Open Source at DIA Annual Meeting

Akaza Research is pleased to announce that Cal Collins will deliver a presentation at the Drug Information Association’s (DIA’s) 45th Annual Meeting, June 21-25, in San Diego, CA. The session, titled “Utilizing and Integrating Open Source Software in Clinical Research Environments,” will explore how open source, standards-based software can improve flexibility, interoperability, and cost in [...]

The State of an Electronic Data Capture Open Source Community

I believe we’ll look back at 2008 as the year the OpenClinica open source community truly coalesced. From a size perspective we grew to over five thousand members, double the size of a year ago. Numbers of downloads, new registrations, and adopters in production all increased dramatically. However, the real substantive change has been in [...]

Three Impossible Things

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
- Lewis Carroll

So, the first half of November has felt a lot like before breakfast at Lewis Carroll’s house.  We could have universal health care by next year. Genes now account for a very small part of the human genome, a contrary view to what scientists [...]

Validation Approach for OpenClinica

Lately there has been quite a bit of discussion in the OpenClinica community about validation. The following paragraphs provide a basic overview of the key pricipals and components of a validation approach for OpenClinica.
In 21 CFR Part 11, the FDA requires validation of all systems that store or manipulate data that will be part of [...]

OpenClinica 2.5 – the final countdown!

OpenClinica 2.5 has been going through rigorous testing over the last few months and we are finally getting close to releasing a production ready version of the application.  There are currently 2 betas and 1 alpha available to the community, but shortly we will be having a Release Candidate available that has been subjected to [...]