Most stories like this never get reported. What reporter anywhere can you get interested in web applications supporting clinical trial operations management. And most insiders will not speak about these things except over a stiff drink.
@patio11
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Management Failure Blocks Drug Trial Over PHP Developer Shortage
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And nobody in the management chain felt sufficient levels of care about this issue to immediately find someone who could fix. At, again, an American research university, on a funded drug trial, where the blocker is literally Can Anyone In The World Write PHP Please.
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Team PHP expertise and technical decision-making challenges
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Why was she making those decisions? Only member of the team that could PHP. Why did they not unmake those decisions? Just told you.
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Trial bureaucracy undermines research efficiency and accountability
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In an early meeting with the team, I asked why the trial intake form had ~200 questions. I assumed this was for Complicated Medical Reasons or that it had been foisted on them by the bioethics board which was in no way accountable for actual success of the trial.
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COVID Trial CRO Security Failures Highlight Healthcare Tech Gaps
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Example from COVID vaccine trials: Meri (a trial enrollee) had to download an ancient version of Internet explorer because, despite the trial being worth about $30k per patient, the CRO couldn’t spell SSL and Chrome blocked their site as a consequence.
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Clinical Research Organizations Face Execution Gaps in Pharma
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Ross and Meri discuss how clinical research organizations, who are essentially GCs sitting between pharma labs and sites which actually have clinical staff that can see patients, often are other than competent at meat and potatoes execution.
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Operational competence challenges in clinical drug development trials
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Listening to @rossry ‘s new podcast about drug development and the first episode about operational competence issues in clinical trials is giving me flashbacks.
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Financial Advice Framework Real Estate Portfolio Allocation Wealth
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I’d expand it to proscriptively saying “If you have competent financial advisors listen to them. If you don’t, I’m going to lay out how much of RE that x% of various wealth ranges here could think of having as part of a balanced portfolio.”
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Essay Meta Influence on Senior Politicians Information Diet
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Another win for the essay meta. (Object level politics aside: senior politicians and their staff are going to have an information diet whether you like them or not. Would you prefer it to be you or the replacement rate explainer from Vox or a CNBC talking head?)
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Risk Management: Handling Customer Default and Financial Loss
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But yeah the single account answer to “What if a customer blows up?” is “Then you lose money. This is why you have a risk department. You have a risk department, right.”