The electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA) firm THREAD has appointed Kim Boericke to be its first chief delivery officer. In her role, Boericke (pronounced “Berica”) will focus on supporting customers in implementing the THREAD platform to support decentralized clinical trial data collection. In addition, she will assist THREAD with decentralized clinical trials, working to include patients…

Cary, North Carolina–based Thread has introduced a consultative service known as Thread Adopt to support change management in decentralized clinical trials. The service encompasses processes, tools, templates and educational functionality. “Thread Adopt guides and empowers customers to analyze their pipeline, with a view to match decentralized solutions and services to the specific needs of their…

One silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has accelerated the rate of change for pharma and life sciences fields in general.  The pandemic has forced a rethink of how to manage clinical trials and treat patients in hospitals and their homes. And the breakneck speed of vaccine development in 2020 could potentially…