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Clinical Trial Design Services

Datatrak’s team of experienced clinical trial design specialists are experts at working with you to implement your study protocol’s requirements into the digital platform and database to manage your study. Our team is also experienced at participating in meetings with study sponsors to help our CRO customers make the best impressions with sponsors and all study stakeholders. Our team can also help with custom requests and change orders should your study protocol change at any point during the process.We are committed to providing an unparalleled customer experience, working to ensure every client is impressed with our trial design software, services, and partnership.

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Training Modules

Datatrak University offers options for either instructor-led, web-based, or onsite training sessions.

Solutions Consulting

Our team is here to understand your needs and guide the development of your clinical study design and implementation strategies.

Protocol Change Management

Our team can help with custom requests and change orders should your study protocol change at any point during the process.

Clinical Trial Design Software

Training to Build Your Own Studies

Datatrak’s clinical trial design team has trained thousands of users to build their own studies on our platform. Our friendly and helpful team will train you how to do the trial designs on the platform. Many of our customers have been trained by our team and have successfully designed hundreds of trials on their own.

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    Expert team participates in sponsor meetings and stakeholder reviews

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    Instructor-led, web-based, or onsite training options available

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    Hundreds of trials successfully designed by trained customers

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    Custom change orders supported without disrupting your study timeline

Integrated Solutions

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Electronic Data Capture (EDC)

A powerful, cost-effective EDC system that enhances data capture and cleaning with a Rapid Startup option — easy to set up and built for any study.

Clinical Trial Management (CTMS)

Manage your clinical trials from startup to close with a fully integrated CTMS giving your team real-time visibility across all studies.

Electronic Trial Master File (eTMF)

Keep every trial document compliant and inspection ready with an eTMF system that cuts costs by 62% and integrates directly with EDC.

eConsent

Simplify patient enrollment and informed consent with digital eConsent software built for decentralized and remote clinical trials.

Post Market Surveillance

Conduct post-market surveillance and Phase IV studies with acloud-based pharmacovigilance software platform built for compliance.

EMR/EHR

Link electronic medical records to your clinical trial EDC with an EHR system and EMR software built for seamless data management.

Trial Design

Work with our expert clinical trial design team to implement your study protocol and train your users to build studies independently.

Data Management

Our clinical data management team supports your data cleaning, workflows for clinical trials, and study-specific needs from startup to close.

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"Datatrak is the best of breed products suite assisting in any clinical trials from simple to complex studies abroad oncology terapeutic area. It provides high speed connectivity for both sponsor and site users to enter eCRFs in a timely manner on intiutive UIs. The products have the capacity to allow pharmaceutical companies, CROs and Academic Institutes to build any type of clinical trials easily. It brings in cost efficiency and all features and built in a single platform. Datatrak is a powerhouse vendor in the health care industry."

Tsubasa Iwata — ClinCloud

We have been using Datatrak EDC for clinical data management for the past 10 years. It has been great working with the Datatrak team, their customer support always responds promptly and is super helpful. They system is easy to use, you can create customized forms, manage study participants, securly store and manage data.

Shannon Stoddard — Oculos

We have been using Datatrak for about 7 years now for our studies, and we selected Fountayn for several reasons. Basic functions to complex solutions are integrated into the same tool. It is user frienidly, and site stasff with experience know perfectly how to enter data, resolve queries, and more. Datatrak is friendly when exporting data to conduct statistical analysis. We have never had any downtimes or issues in our operations, and most importantly, we have never lost any data.

Alejandro Arias — CEO, ILS Clinical Research

We used Datatrak EDC to support a complex double-blind clinical trial, including custom randomization, a site-specific sub-study, and external imaging data entry. The platform handled edit checks and data validation reliably, with strong audit trails supporting compliance requirements. Its flexibility allowed us to adapt quickly as study needs evolved. We completed database lock on time with all SDV, and query resolution finalized, which speaks to both the system's robustness and how quickly our teams got productive on it.

Sandeep Saha — Director of Data Science, Cardiovascular Clinical Sciences

We used Datatrak EDC to support a complex double-blind clinical trial, including custom randomization, a site-specific sub-study, and external imaging data entry. The platform handled edit checks and data validation reliably, with strong audit trails supporting compliance requirements. Its flexibility allowed us to adapt quickly as study needs evolved. We completed database lock on time with all SDV, and query resolution finalized, which speaks to both the system's robustness and how quickly our teams got productive on it.

Sandeep Saha — Director of Data Science, Cardiovascular Clinical Sciences

Frequently Asked Questions

What is clinical trial design?

Clinical trial design is the process of translating a study protocol into the structure, forms, workflows, and data collection logic needed to run the trial. Datatrak’s team of experienced clinical trial design specialists works with you to implement your study protocol’s requirements into the digital platform and database that will manage your study.

Can Datatrak’s team design our study, or can we build it ourselves?

Both options are available. Many of our customers have been trained by our team and have successfully designed hundreds of trials on their own through Datatrak University, which offers instructor-led, web-based, and onsite training sessions. For teams that prefer a hands-on partner, our Solutions Consulting group designs the study with you and participates in sponsor meetings and stakeholder reviews to help CRO customers make the best impression.

What happens if our study protocol changes during the trial?

Protocol changes are a normal part of clinical research. Our team can help with custom requests and change orders should your study protocol change at any point during the process, and our one-of-a-kind change management process allows teams to implement updates without required study downtime or data migration.

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