- By Åsa Gunnarsson and Shaq Nejad, Senior Clinical Data Managers
- By Åsa Gunnarsson and Shaq Nejad,
Senior Clinical Data Managers
If you’ve worked with electronic data capture systems long enough, you’ve probably developed a healthy skepticism. We have too. As data managers, we’ve spent years working inside rigid platforms—trying to make them fit study designs that they weren’t really built for.
Eventually, we stopped trying to make those systems work. Instead, we started from scratch—designing a new kind of EDC that puts flexibility, adaptability, and real-world usability first.
At ACDM 2025, we gave a live demo of what we’ve built. It’s part of the Trial Online™ product family and was designed with data managers, site users, and clinical operations teams in mind. It’s not yet available on the market, but we’re sharing previews with teams who want a system that works the way they do.
Built for How Trials Actually Run
This isn’t a facelift of an old platform. It’s a rebuild, designed to reflect how modern studies work. Trials are more complex, protocols evolve mid-study, and teams need tools that can keep up. We built this system to flex with you, not against you.
In the demo, we walked through a dermatology study setup involving two patient populations—atopic dermatitis and psoriasis—each with its own visit schedule. Using the built-in expression builder, we showed how a diagnosis entered at screening automatically triggered the right visit path.
Watch How It Works in Action
In this short clip, you’ll see how visit branches are scheduled based on patient diagnosis—using simple logic, flexible timing, and a drag-and-drop interface.
Flexibility Without Friction
- Build eCRFs from a global library or import forms from file (like inclusion/exclusion criteria copied straight from your protocol).
- Customize roles by copying a validated template and adjusting permissions—say, creating a junior data manager role.
- Set up visit schedules with reusable event branches and apply logic to guide site users through the system when entering patient data.
Designed with the Day-To-Day in Mind
We’ve spent enough time in EDCs to know that even small annoyances add up. That’s why we focused on usability from the start.
Site users get a clean, role-based dashboard with quick access to subjects, queries, and tasks. You can add a subject with one click. Review progress at a glance. Resolve a query or sign a form directly from your task list. Everything autosaves. Everything behaves as expected.
For data managers, subject dashboards display real-time eCRF status, outstanding queries, and recent activity. Logic-driven visibility (like pregnancy fields appearing only when relevant) is easy to configure and test. And actions like batch signoffs and locking are built in to save time at scale.
Real-Time Visibility, Without the Heavy Lifting
Every form you create automatically generates linked reports and listings—so you don’t have to wait for an export just to check progress or answer a query. Whether you’re reviewing screen failures, verifying subject status, or tracking eCRF page completeness, the data is already there.
Need deeper insights? Our analytics layer lets you drill into site performance, subject flags, or AE reports—and interact directly with the data. Click from a metric straight into a subject profile or export a chart for your next stakeholder update. It’s all built to support fast, informed decisions.
Designed to Fix What Slows Teams Down
After more than 20 years in this space, we’ve seen how inflexible systems create real barriers. They delay builds. They increase cost. And they force clinical teams to work outside the platform—adding risk, creating frustration, and pushing timelines.
We built this EDC to remove those roadblocks. To give study teams more control. And to make daily tasks—whether you’re a data manager, CRA, or site user—less painful and more productive.
We’re excited about where this is headed—and we’d love to show it to others who are rethinking how trials should run.
Want to See It for Yourself?
This new EDC isn’t live in market yet—but we’re sharing early demos with teams who want a closer look. If you’ve ever found yourself saying, “Why is this still so hard?”—this is your chance to see a better way.
