CLINICAL TRIALS IN INDIA: TECHNICAL SUPPORT

When we come to technical aspects of clinical research, the primary issues are:

 

Back office services support: It includes software development for electronic case report forms, data mining, data management, SAS programming and medical writing.

e-CRF and Database development: More than 500 companies outsource their software development to India as India is cost effective for the development of electronic data capture and e records of case reports forms.. Data mining is also a good outsourced business in India. While in US, the same quality of work is far more expensive, China is still in development phase of technology.

Data management: Data management is done with technical expertise and under expert guidance in India with half the cost that in US.

Statistical analysis and SAS programming: SAS has been expanding its applications in India. India has skilled and well trained programmers and is known for quality the world over.

India being a pool of most skilled IT professionals, the country provides a strong IT support to clinical research. Indian industry is facilitating clinical research industry with new software solutions to streamline and integrate various functions of clinical research and that too at a very lower price as compared to US and China.