BPM Implementation in Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials

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BPM Implementation in Pharmaceutical Clinical
Trials
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• In the highly regulated industry of
  pharmaceuticals, many companies are turning to
  Business Process Management (BPM) tools to help
  track, control, and manage processes.

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• One key area where BPM tools can make a huge
  difference for pharmaceutical companies is in the
  area of RD, as well as clinical trials. Clinical
  trials require extensive documentation and have
  lengthy, time-consuming procedures to be
  followed. BPM helps with this through automation
  of some of the processes and tasks. Equally as
  important, BPM helps document and track the
  overall process as well as each of the moving
  pieces to ensure compliance and accurate records.

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• Clinical trials are complex, tightly regulated,
  and involve many different departments,
  individuals, and resources. To even begin the
  clinical trial phase of a medical product
  requires extensive documentation, which can be
  managed and tracked through a BPM software
  solution more efficiently. This allows all of the
  documentation to be contained in a single
  location and accessed when needed later on. BPM
  solutions can often integrate with older legacy
  systems as well to ensure that absolutely all of
  the necessary information can be found together.

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• Another way BPM can help with clinical trial
  processes is through streamlining of processes.
• BPM workflows can help to identify bottlenecks
  and also make processes more efficient by
  figuring out which processes can occur
  concurrently to save time and resources. This can
  result in saved money as well as time as new
  products can potentially go to market quicker.

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• Even for clinical trials being conducted
  digitally already, there is much room for
  improvement where BPM solutions can help. The
  staggering number of compliance and legal
  checkboxes that need to be dealt with causes a
  need for every process or decision to be
  thoroughly documented at each step of the way. By
  automating this through BPM solutions,
  pharmaceutical companies dont need to worry
  about something being overlooked and will quickly
  and easily have the necessary information
  available if they are ever audited or questioned
  down the road.

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• Pharmaceutical companies are quite literally
  working to save lives through their productions
  and processes.
• This makes proper documentation and following of
  procedures even more imperative than in other
  industries. Aside from the legal headaches and
  concerns the company will have to face if issues
  arise, there is the issue of safety of customers
  and clinical trial members. For these reasons, it
  is imperative that steps and checks in processes
  not be overlooked.

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• Most pharmaceutical companies operate globally or
  at least on a very large scale nationally. This
  makes the priorities of coordination and
  collaboration even more important as well as more
  difficult to effectively implement.
• BPM helps with overcoming the difficulties
  associated with geographic distances so that
  projects can be tracked and managed efficiently,
  even remotely.

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• Overall, BPM implementations in the
  pharmaceutical industry can be helpful in a
  number of ways. Between increasing efficiency
  (and thus the bottom line) to making processes
  safer, it is clear that many pharmaceutical
  companies could benefit from adopting Business
  Process Management methods and solutions.