Virtual Clinical Trials: A Changing Landscape for the Supply Chain and Your Patient, New Webinar Hosted by Xtalks

TORONTO, May 25, 2018 (Newswire.com) -  In a live webinar upcoming on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, at 10 a.m. EDT (3 p.m. BST/UK), featured speakers from Hexagon Supply Chain and Marken will explore the virtual clinical trial environment and all of its related aspects: the required technology, regulations, IT systems, the value of patient centricity, benefits to adding home care to protocols, as well as exploration of the challenges to avoid and how to ensure success.

Their experience gleaned through years of providing logistics solutions with their Direct to/from Patient (DTP/DFP) service demonstrates how building a home health care service alongside their successful DTP/DFP service offers needed and innovative supply chain solutions to the industry.

Key Learning Objectives

• Acquire insights into the way DTP/DFP and Home Healthcare options as part of a protocol are changing the industry and how patients experience treatment
• Explore the challenges of traditional trials and discover the value that virtual trials bring and how we can work with patients through these types of trials
• Understand which studies and conditions are best-suited to this methodology and why
• Gain insights into the set-up process for a successful trial and how to mitigate risks, including critical touchpoints in the supply chain and the last mile
• Learn how the pharma and clinical trial industry is embracing this shift

Study protocols are increasingly complex, needing extensive data collection and utilising complicated drug regimes. Patients can be deterred from taking part in a trial by the need for frequent travel to a clinical site for routine drug administration and simple tests. Around 30 percent of patients drop out before study completion, leading to data loss and potential approval delays. Increasingly engaged patient populations need clinical teams to work with their subject groups to improve patient recruitment and retention.

The new model for DTP/DFP and home healthcare allowing many visits to be conducted in a patient’s home improve patient engagement and bringing the wider medical community to them can potentially improve compliance. Through a DTP service, patients reap the benefits of streamlining the compliant delivery of clinical trial materials direct to their homes. Using nurses to administer investigational medicinal products (IMP), take samples and record information while with patients can improve both recruitment and retention in clinical trials. Samples can be processed for direct shipment to the central laboratory, allowing adjustments to be made in patients’ care plans and drug regime.

Direct to/from Patient (DTP/DFP) Services Include:

• Delivery of clinical trial materials from an investigator site, pharmacy or depot directly to the patient’s home
• Home pickup and delivery of collected biological specimens
• Home pickup and return of unused/partially used/expired clinical trial materials for return to investigator site
• Global Home Health Care services
• The support of different DTP supply chain models through Marken’s network

A strong global network and regulatory experience are needed to ensure understanding and application of the international and local regulations and to ensure adherence to regulations from any country in which trials will take place.

For more information about this complimentary webinar, visit Virtual Clinical Trials: A Changing Landscape for the Supply Chain and Your Patient.

 

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Contact:

Nima Rajan
Tel: +1 (416) 977-6555 ext 352
Email: [email protected]

Source: Xtalks