August 26th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
The 12th Onsemble conference focuses on fostering partnerships for research excellence.
Madison, Wis. (Aug. 26, 2011) — Leading institutes in the clinical research community will gather to discuss key issues and pinpoint solutions to achieve excellence in their operations at the 12th Onsemble conference. It will be held September 14-16, 2011, at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. Hosted by Forte Research Systems, Inc., the event provides a forum for collaboration for members of the Onsemble community, which largely consists of prospective and current users of the company’s market-leading product, the OnCore Clinical Research Management system.
‘The Power of Partnerships’
The agenda for the upcoming conference is filled with great learning and networking opportunities. The theme of this year’s conference centers on fostering partnerships for research excellence. One session on the agenda will explore opportunities for integration of external systems with OnCore. Titled “Technology Partnerships: Interfacing eIRB Systems with OnCore,” the discussion will center on breaking down barriers to eIRB systems integration in order to achieve more efficient operations. Srini Kalluri, Founder, President, CEO, and Chief Customer Experience Officer, will speak about the company’s Software Development Kit, which was introduced for the purpose of interfacing OnCore with all eIRB systems. He will lead the panel, which will also include the site and eIRB vendor perspectives. Vendors that will be in attendance at the conference include BEC (creator of IRBManager) and Topaz. Read More…
August 25th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
For the second year in a row, Forte Research Systems appears on Inc.’s annual list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.
MADISON, Wis. (August 26, 2011) – Forte Research Systems, Inc., developer of clinical and translational research software systems, announced today that it was ranked No. 1695 on Inc. magazine’s fifth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. This is the second year in a row that Forte Research has made the list, an accomplishment made even sweeter by the company’s jump of 867 spots up the list from its placement in 2010.
“We are excited to be included on this list for a second time. Recognition like this validates our commitment to delivering excellent products that provide value to our customers,” said Srini Kalluri, President, CEO, and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Forte Research Systems. “This is an example of what can be accomplished when you have a fantastic team, supportive investors, and loyal customers.” Read More…
August 24th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
Allegro Research on Demand cloud-based clinical research management system
Bangalore, India (August 24, 2011) – Input from sites working closely with Forte Research Systems has resulted in another fantastic quarterly update to Allegro® CTMS@Site™, the clinical trials management system designed exclusively for investigator sites. Additionally, cash-flow concerns of investigator sites spurred the company to offer a six month payment holiday and create other new flexible pricing structures.
Allegro CTMS@Site Summer 2011 Version Released
New features for drug accountability and supply inventory management along with enhancements to protocol design, clinical trials financials management and budgeting are central to the Summer 2011 version of the Allegro CTMS@Site system.
The Bangalore Diabetes Hospital, one of the sites from Bangalore, India, worked with Forte Research Systems from the beginning to help guide the development of the Allegro CTMS@Site product. Recently, they have upgraded to the Summer 2011 version of the product.
“Allegro is helping us reduce the effort of tracking a lot of data related to clinical research site management, which has enhanced the productivity of the team. I feel comfortable knowing that we are supporting GCP with a centralized system and that we can easily demonstrate compliance,” said Dr. Prasanna Kumar, CEO of the Bangalore Diabetes Hospital. Read More…
August 15th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
A multi-year project to centralize a growing clinical research program, improve accruals, and move away from paper-based processes culminated last month with the implementation of the OnCore Clinical Research Management system across a five-hospital network at Meridian Health in New Jersey.
The project began a few years ago when Meridian began moving away from paper-based processes and started managing data in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. However, with rapid growth in their clinical research division, spreadsheets quickly became woefully inadequate.
“Over the last few years our clinical research division has grown from a handful of clinical trials to over 200 active trials today,” said Ernest W. Richards, PhD, FACN, Corporate Director of Research Services for Meridian Health. Read More…
August 14th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
UCSF Translational Informatics team will leverage previous success at the cancer center to expand clinical research informatics system across the enterprise
Institutions, like the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), that have successful clinical research informatics programs are expanding these services across their organizations with a new program developed by Forte Research Systems, Inc. The program, called the OnCore Shared Resource Partnership, or O-ShaRP™, was designed to meet the specific needs of large organizations who wish to offer centralized clinical research informatics infrastructure and services across the enterprise. Read More…
July 27th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
New features for drug accountability and supply inventory management along with enhancements to protocol design, clinical trials financials management and budgeting are central to the Summer 2011 version of the Allegro®CTMS@Site™ system from Forte Research Systems, Inc.
“I currently have three active trials that are recruiting patients, and supplies are important in the beginning phases of these studies. I was very pleased to see the inventory management functionality,” said Karen Gaddy, CCRA, President of KLG Consulting. Gaddy, a new user of the Allegro CTMS@Site product, assists community-based physicians interested in performing or enhancing clinical trial research in their practices. “Not having to personally take inventory or asking the coordinator to do an inventory on a weekly basis is invaluable to me.” Read More…
June 29th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
After proving the success of their electronic Institutional Review Board (eIRB) management system integration interface, Forte Research Systems, Inc. is making their Software Development Toolkit (SDK) freely available to all interested parties. The integrations were accomplished between Forte Research’s market-leading product, the OnCore Clinical Research Management system, and various eIRB systems.
“As the market leader, we feel this was the right thing to do for our customers, not to mention the clinical research community as a whole,” said Srini Kalluri, Founder, President, CEO and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Forte Research Systems. “There’s no reason for every one of our customers to have to reinvent the wheel when they want to share data between their eIRB system and OnCore.” Read More…
May 18th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
Large clinical research organizations can now administer their clinical research data across multiple organizational units within a single system while giving each research group their own virtual environment when they use Version 11.0 of the OnCore® clinical and translational research platform. OnCore’s creator, Forte Research Systems, Inc., has taken the system’s signature configurability for supporting individual workflows at an organization down to the departmental level. Read More…
May 10th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
Allegro Research on Demand cloud-based clinical research management system
Five months after unveiling the new Allegro™, cloud-based clinical research management platform, Forte Research Systems, Inc. has released the Spring 2011 version of Allegro CTMS@Site™, the clinical trials management system designed exclusively for investigator sites.
There is an ever-increasing level of administrative overhead and regulatory exposure for today’s investigator sites. In part, this is due to sites taking on more trials at a time when trials are becoming increasingly complex. Read More…
January 11th, 2011 by Forte Research Customer Experience Services
MADISON, Wis. (January 12, 2011) – The University of Virginia (UVA) NCI-designated Cancer Center recently made the move from a comparatively sophisticated home-grown clinical trials management system (CTMS) to the OnCore Clinical Research Management System (OnCore-CRM) from Forte Research Systems, Inc. Read More…
Madison, Wis. (Aug. 26, 2011) — Leading institutes in the clinical research community will gather to discuss key issues and pinpoint solutions to achieve excellence in their operations at the 12th Onsemble conference. It will be held September 14-16, 2011, at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. Hosted by Forte Research Systems, Inc., the event provides a forum for collaboration for members of the Onsemble community, which largely consists of prospective and current users of the company’s market-leading product, the OnCore Clinical Research Management system.
