EDC system in China
Posted on Mar 30 , 2012 by youjoy
The use of EDC(electronic data capture) system in clinical trials is very common in America and Europe. In China the developement of EDC is slow. Except the expensive price, I think there are other factors that hindered the developement of EDC system.
In my oppinion, one of the factors is that there is no standard, whatever the standard of clinical trial database or standard of its submitting to regulatory. Another is that many investigators have no enough staff to conduct a trial based on EDC. The third, perhaps the primary factor, most of sponsors haven't a fully understand of the need of EDC.
The advantage of using EDC is obvious and using EDC is a general trend. How to convert this big potential market to real needs? If you can find this answer you will get the profitable clients.
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