ACRES Launches First Phase of Shared Clinical Research Platform
The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (
The technology also provides a global integration platform through which stakeholders can seamlessly access and deploy already established technology solutions and collaborative data warehouses to support a global system for high-performance Accountable Research™.
Made possible by a multi-million dollar technologies and services pledge from ACRES’ strategic ally HealthCarePoint, a Texas-based healthcare and clinical research networking-technology corporation, ACRES BlueCloud™ provides much needed and desired capabilities for effortlessly interconnecting parties across the global clinical research ecosystem.
“We are happy to provide ACRES BlueCloud™ as part of our common mission to improve efficiency, quality and transparency across this endeavor, benefiting patients and care givers worldwide”, stated Al O. Pacino, president of HCP, “By donating this technology, we can very substantially help ACRES realize its goal to build a collaborative global system for clinical research.” Pacino is also ACRES’ Vice-President for Collaborative Network Development.
HealthCarePoint is among several technology companies and standards organizations comprising ACRES’ global
“There is much talk these days about portals and technology solutions to promote safety, quality, efficiency and collaboration in clinical research”, noted Greg Koski, ACRES president and CEO. “Actually, many solutions are already available and proven, but we need a system enabling them to work together. Rather than costly building from scratch, ACRES is leveraging existing technologies through a shared integration platform. ACRES Blue Cloud™ is a major first-step in this direction and we are very grateful to HealthCarePoint for making it possible.”
Rollout of the ACRES Blue Cloud™ platform will begin immediately by providing the technology free of charge to clinical research sites worldwide, thereby extending and leveraging the existing global network of nearly three-quarter million current
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