Today, EDC systems are widely adopted by life science companies and well
established as a critical technology for conducting clinical research, especially for
large multi-site trials. While EDC systems are primarily a source of clinical data,
robust systems generate a significant amount of operational data too. And when
integrated with other clinical technologies, an EDC system is capable of surfacing and
feeding these operational data into analytics or operational technologies to automate
workflows and auto-populate data. Integrations are what turn your traditional EDC
system from a place to capture clinical data into a core component of data analytics
and trial operations. The keys to unlocking this value and streamlining clinical site
payments are, first, to understand what EDC data can be used to automate the site
payment process and, second, what type of integration layer is needed.