HealthIT Answers: A Different Approach to eSource Starts with the Clinical Research Site
By Nick Frenzer, General Manager, Site Solutions, Veeva.
Developing new drugs and therapies is a contact sport for research sites. Investigators are on the frontlines, meeting and treating patients to help them live healthier lives. At the same time, sites are working through complex protocols, numerous disconnected systems, and manual processes that are costly in time and resources. This compounds for sites working with multiple sponsors as a recent research report found that 71% of sites say their top challenge is managing the number of sponsor selected vendor systems.
Sites bear the burden of disparate technology and over complicated workflows. As the number of data sources used in clinical trials increases and complexity grows, sites need modern tools to complete their mission-critical work. Many still rely on paper and manual data transcription to get things done, in 2026!
After meeting with experts from sites and sponsors to discuss opportunities that can have the greatest impact in advancing trial operations, one area kept coming up: eSource. Capturing data digitally at the source can significantly reduce the workflow for sites yet implementing it across studies has been seemingly unattainable.