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Merative Clinical Development

Merative Clinical Development
Formerly IBM Clinical Development / Watson Health

Overview

What is Merative Clinical Development?

IBM Clinical Development (formerly eClinicalOS) is a cloud-based electronic data capture (EDC) system.

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Recent Reviews

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- Easy Study Build Process: Several users have found the study build process relatively easy to learn and navigate, allowing them to …
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Overall Happy Customer

8 out of 10
February 19, 2021
Incentivized
IBM Clinical Development (ICD) is being used to conduct and manage clinical trial data. It is being used by specific departments in the …
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Good but can be Best

8 out of 10
February 12, 2021
Incentivized
We have identified IBM as our preferred vendor to conduct our studies to pharmaceutical companies. Data management group and sites where …
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Keep it simple

10 out of 10
February 12, 2021
Incentivized
Within our organization [IBM Clinical Development (ICD)] is used across departments- Data management, Monitoring, Project management, …
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IBM Clinical Development Review

7 out of 10
February 04, 2021
ICD is used by Data Management Department, CRA Department and project manager might also have experience with IBM CD. From designer's …
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What is Merative Clinical Development?

IBM Clinical Development (formerly eClinicalOS) is a cloud-based electronic data capture (EDC) system.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is Merative Clinical Development?

Merative® Clinical Development (formerly IBM® Clinical Development) is a unified, cloud-based Clinical Data Management System designed to help reduce the cycle time to start, amend, and manage clinical studies — enabling life sciences organizations to deliver therapies and innovations faster to their patients.

Boasting a proven track record of over 3000+ clinical trials, in 90+ countries, with 1 million+ participants, the vendor states Merative® Clinical Development will help pharmaceutical, medical device, and CROs to shorten study cycle time and reduce costs.

In addition to its core electronic data capture (EDC) functionality, Merative® Clinical Development offers a fully-integrated portfolio of modules that are designed to suit every trial, including:

Medical Coding with AI- Designed to increase efficiency by leveraging AI to build consistency and reduce errors
eConsent - Deliver quick and easy remote participant consenting without additional EDC integration
Open Platform Data Integration - Allows users to build and automate data connectors with minimal coding
Reporting and Analytics - Provide Data Managers to use pre-built or custom reports to derive single and cross-study insights
Electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment (eCOA) - Strengthens Participant Centricity with live, automatic data sync with EDC

Visit https://www.merative.com/clinical-development to learn more.

Merative Clinical Development Screenshots

Screenshot of Access key site performance metrics with Smart ReportsScreenshot of Build logic into studies with Advance Expression EditorScreenshot of Dynamic and configurable analytics powered by CognosScreenshot of eCOA's My Clinical Diary enhances the patient experience

Merative Clinical Development Integrations

Merative Clinical Development Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesWorldwide usage
Supported Languages50 + languages and dialects

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Clinical Development (formerly eClinicalOS) is a cloud-based electronic data capture (EDC) system.

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Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Merative Clinical Development are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!
  • Easy Study Build Process: Several users have found the study build process relatively easy to learn and navigate, allowing them to quickly create studies. The availability of tools within the system has been praised for assisting builders throughout the process.
  • Excellent Support: Many reviewers highly appreciate the outstanding support provided by the technical helpdesk and project management teams, which has been instrumental in their success with the system.
  • Dedicated Client Success Manager: Users value having their own Client Success Manager who provides excellent guidance and assistance throughout their experience with the system. The specific mention of a user's Client Success Manager doing an excellent job highlights this positive aspect.

Slow response to suggestions/issues: Some users have expressed frustration with the slow response from the system's support team when it comes to addressing suggestions or issues related to enhancing the system functionalities.

Non-standard functionalities require additional payments: Several reviewers have mentioned that certain functionalities in the system are not included in the standard package and require additional payments, which can be a disadvantage for some users.

Expensive certification in certain modules: The cost of certification in certain modules, such as Data Migrator, has been highlighted by a number of users as being expensive, making it less accessible for individuals or companies on a tight budget.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides detailed data on-demand
  • Allows rapid study design
  • Provides standardization across all clinical trial elements
  • Some modules are expensive.
  • Reporting could be more user friendly (steep learning curve).
  • Training should utilize more (simple) examples.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is highly customizable and easy to program.
  • There is a wide variety of data that can be collected from IRB/site information to clinical data.
  • ICD provides comprehensive edit language to program for accurate results.
  • Page dynamics are very useful when including or hiding certain data questions.
  • Reporting is very clunky and most often needs to be programmed by IBM itself. Getting Excel listings isn't user friendly for all employees.
  • The date functions are limited when setting up visit windows.
  • The User Manual gets to be a bit confusing in areas. It would benefit using direct examples when explaining programming.
  • Having the ability to attach documents (i.e., IRB approval in the Site Documents section) would be beneficial instead of getting a separate CTMS.
  • The audit trail report is non-functional for us. There is too much data for it to handle.
Michelle Barrick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of subject data entry for site data entry.
  • Ease of query review for CRA management and source verification.
  • Ability to generate data tables for general study review.
  • Would like to have more access to report review. Most of the functions are controlled by the initial data management setup of the specific reports. I would like to be able to run my own custom programs as a CRA (some way to bypass internal programming).
  • Sites note that they are limited in pulling tables (with specific information ) based on internal programming. I only see what DM has allowed with the CVS/EXCEL tables.
  • Better user guide to assist with training.
February 19, 2021

Overall Happy Customer

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User friendly and easy to use
  • Fast
  • Easy-to-create reports
  • EDC support system to be enhanced and calls should be arranged to discuss it in detail by sharing screen over a Zoom call or MS teams (or by any other preferred method).
  • Page dynamics tab should have advanced expression editor enabled, along with basic editor.
  • An additional option to post a re-query should be made available. Currently, if a re-query is to be posted, the original answered query needs to be closed and a new query needs to be generated. This does not provide a reference to the previous query on which this re-query is posted.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Electronic data capture (EDC)
  • Data integration
  • Randomization and trial supply management (RTSM)
  • It should have an e-learning module where trainings can be assigned to individuals based on their desired role
  • Mobile EDC app for Andorid and iOS
February 12, 2021

Keep it simple

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data management activities from initial study build and development
  • Report generating , data listing capabilities
  • System interoperability, within system i.e. availability of various modules
  • System interoperability, across systems i.e. data integration
  • Monitoring management module
  • Project management module
  • Direct data capture
  • Ideally EMR integration
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User-friendly database build module. Thus enabling study builds in record times.
  • Effective Randomization and Inventory management module.
  • IBM Clinical Development has one of the amazing technical support teams in the industry.
  • We cannot have multiple study accesses for a study in the studies supported by IBM clinical. eg. Coder and Data manager.
  • Though all the study-build related errors are flagged on the study-build page, some errors like incorrect dynamics applied, which eventually affects the subject PDF extraction, reports, etc.
  • When the study is imported from another IBM studies, certain attributes remain running in the background even if it seems to be disabled.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Very good dynamic system. Avoid site to see information unnecessary.
  • User friendly. No need to have strong programming background.
  • Study customized system setting.
  • Wish Advanced Editor can be both manually edited and pull the elements
  • Consider more possibility of Subject ID
  • System setting document can not import study attributes
  • Cannot add repeating cycle X if my memory is correct
November 12, 2020

Great EDC System

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Intuitive design interface
  • Well-organized online manual and training material
  • Robust error checking and step-by-step wizard
  • Helpdesk has solid expertise
  • Page design: Dynamic control fields like dynamic searchlist drop down; which contents can be changed depends on the data entry.
  • System query: Implement the edit check on cross repeated pages.
  • MSU process: Assign study revision to multiple sites with just one click.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • IBM CD has a great number of options/modules and can be adapted to any kind of clinical trial.
  • IBM CD is user friendly.
  • The support team is always ready to help and support and give useful tips.
  • IBM CD should think about spreading their data center also in other places than just in US. That would be handy due to GDPR to have it e.g. in Europe, or in Asia.
  • From my point of view, the IBM CD prices are fine, but for start-up companies the IBM CD is unreachable due to price. Other solutions need to be offered to them.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is an electronic data capture where we can build studies, collect data, monitor data and edit- check.
  • We can also issues queries, generate reports, attach additional documentation.
  • It has the ability for electronic signature.
  • The system does not have much electronic trial master filing function.
  • I dont think it accepts documents in various format like pdf, Word, Excel, etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Study build process is relatively easy to learn, and there are many tools within the system to help builders throughout the process.
  • Outstanding support - both technical / Helpdesk (with system features and capabilities) and project management. Each organization has their own Client Success Manager, and ours is doing an excellent job.
  • Periodical enhancements based on the users/clients/s feedback.
  • Training materials are very well prepared and organized.
  • The response to suggestions/issues on how to enhance the system functionalities is slow.
  • Use of some functionalities is non-standard and requires additional payments.
  • Certification in certain modules (e.g. Data Migrator) is expensive.
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