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Study Manager

Which Investigator Fees was I to release again? Did our Sponsor pay us for the last batch of investigator fees?

The saying goes the buck stops here, well so does the study. As the Study Manager you are in charge of the overall management of the study, including reconciling the costs with the accounting department and reporting to the Sponsor where the study is at in the field.

If the study is not going well or it’s taking longer to recruit the right candidates or if you are burning through the Sponsor start-up funds faster than expected - then you need to know. But how do you do that now? How do you see which visits have been paid for and can you track them easily by study participant? How do you know if a site can get the study done?

The AccuNet CRO Accounting & Study Management system based on Microsoft Dynamics gives you the ability to forecast and analyze your study budget (too many people, too few, not big enough budget, do I need a change order) and it gives you a Study Manager Executive Dashboard to view this information; by study and by participants even down to the site, including:

  • Visits have been paid to the investigator.
  • Visits re-billed to the Sponsor.
  • Participants visit timeline including start date, ID, and next visits.
  • Payments held to investigator awaiting Sponsor payment.
  • Payments await release by Study Manager.

Read more about the solution here

Responsibility

  • CRO level study management
  • Bring Study in on time and under budget
  • Release investigator payments based on subject visits.
  • Report back to Sponsor on status of the study.

Pain

  • Unable to see where the study is at in the field.
  • Lack of visibility into study by site and subject.
  • Time intensive manual study reconciliation with accounting.
  • No data to determine if study is on budget.

Solution

  • Visibility of study by participant, visits, sites, investigator fees, cash flow, and re-bills.
  • Predictive forecasting capabilities for grant payments
  • Detailed study reporting for Sponsors.
  • Track and pre-empt cost over-runs.
“We knew our studies were mostly profitable, but we didn’t know how and why they were. Because we control the study in-house, we operate on fixed fees decided with the client ahead of time. If we find our technicians need more time or need more resources on average, then we need to build that into the fixed fee for future projects in order to keep us profitable.”

- CRO Study Manager

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