In today's ACT Brief, we examine what genuine patient voice requires beyond buzzwords, why AI's next bottleneck is system integration not models, and how regulators across three jurisdictions are formalizing patient input requirements.
|Articles|October 15, 2014
Bio-Optronics Builds Oncology-Specific Features into CTMS
Bio-Optronics has built oncology-specific function into its CTMS, Clinical Conductor
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Bio-Optronics has built oncology-specific function into its CTMS, Clinical Conductor. These features include adaptive and dynamic protocol design; billing compliance function that allows organizations managing and executing oncology studies to create multiple versions of cost-allocation grids for multi-arm trials, providing more accurate billing information with less time and effort; and financial tools to accommodate complex and changing protocols, allowing organizations to effectively bill for recurring visits and other complexities that result from oncology protocol design. In addition to this, organizations can set specific Medicare coverage designations at specific sites.Finally, the CTMS contains National Cancer Institute reporting functionality that creates NCI-compliant reports and allows researchers to adhere to NCI grant requirements more easily.
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