In today’s ACT Brief, we examine what it will take to scale EHR-to-EDC connections for real-time trials, how the FDA is reimagining rare disease drug development, and why oncology real-world evidence still faces persistent data barriers.
|Articles|July 6, 2015
BioClinica Acquires MediciGroup
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BioClinica® announced that it has acquired global patient recruitment and retention firm, MediciGroup. The acquisition includes affiliates MediciGlobal, Ltd. and Access to Patients, LLC. Medici also provides a lost-to-follow-up patient locate service (L2FU®) that finds missing patients globally. The acquisition adds proprietary technologies and processes to BioClinica’s services as well as the ability to integrate recruitment metrics with BioClinica’s system, to help manage clinical trials in real time.
Liz Moench, founder and CEO of Medici, will lead the company’s global patient recruitment and retention services, headquartered at BioClinica’s Philadelphia-area office.
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