The Everest Group recently named the OpenClinica EDC the leading Major Contender in the 2024 Life Sciences Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment.
OpenClinica’s EDC named the leading Major Contender in the 2024 Life Sciences Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment.
At a high level, the global research and consulting firm chose OpenClinica for its list of top 10 EDCs because of our “strengths in ease of use, integration capabilities, and extensive partnerships.”
Nisarg Shah, Practice Director at Everest Group, elaborated, writing:
OpenClinica offers a user-friendly EDC software that requires minimal programming knowledge, featuring single-click publish for mid-study changes, user management, data validation, and query management. OpenClinica’s strong partnership network includes CROs, hospital networks, industry consortia, and academic institutions, with clients appreciating its efficient support services and pricing tailored for their needs.”
The report – which you can download here – details five OpenClinica strengths:
- Easy to Use: OpenClinica providers a user-friendly EDC software that is easy to learn and operate, without much programming knowledge.
- Integration Capabilities: Established integrations with Apple devices and Epic and Cerner EHR systems, with more integrations in the pipeline for the near future.
- Satisfied Customers: Clients appreciate product capabilities such as single-click publish for mid-study changes, user management, data validation, and query management.
- Extensive Partnerships: An extensive partnership network – well-established relationships with CROs, hospital networks, industry consortia, and academic institutions.
- Support and Pricing: Efficient support services, and its pricing options are well-suited for academic institutions.
The report provides specifics on nine of the product features in OpenClinica’s electronic data capture for clinical trials such as adaptive study design support and 11 product capabilities such as direct EHR/EMR connectivity. For example, within the category, Integrations with other systems, the report includes detailed information, including:
OpenClinica offers a wide range of integration capabilities including extensive APIs, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Suitable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies (SMART) on FHIR, direct lab system integration, and Apple Health.”
The Easy to use and intuitive designer feature is supported with customer details, such as:
OpenClinica’s customers appreciate how the solution allows them to be self-reliant in deploying complex studies, while being able to rely on OpenClinica’s world class infrastructure and team for support, quality, compliance, scalability, and security.”
In other words, the OpenClinica PEAK Matrix report is comparable to a condensed RFP. You can download the report about electronic data capture for clinical trials here.
How Does the Everest Group Evaluate EDCs
For the PEAK Matrix, the Everest Group chooses 15-25 best-in-class solutions to evaluate based on the impact created in the market and the ability to deliver products successfully. Akin to Garter’s Magic Quadrant, the PEAK Matrix is:
A proprietary framework for assessing the relative market success and overall capability of tech and tech service providers based on performance, experiences, ability, and knowledge…The PEAK Matrix assessment process also includes provider customer reference interviews – a critical step that some other research firms exclude.”
For the Life Sciences Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment for 2024, market impact has three sub dimensions:
- Market Adoption: number of clients, revenue base and YoY growth
- Portfolio Mix: diversity of client base across industries, geographies, environments and enterprise size class
- Value Delivered: value delivered to the client based on customer feedback and other measures
Vision and capability has five sub dimensions:
- Vision and Strategy: Vision for the client and itself; future roadmap and strategy
- Technology Capability: Technical sophistication and breadth/depth across the technology suite
- Flexibility and Ease of Development: Configurability/customize-ability, hosting and tenancy, integration, governance, and security and compliance
- Engagement and Commercial Model: Progressiveness, effectiveness, and flexibility of engagement and commercial models
- Support: Training, consulting, maintenance, and other support services
The goal is to help sponsors narrow the choice of a platform for electronic data capture in clinical trials.
Ready to see it in action? Request a demo of OpenClinica’s EDC here.