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The OpenClinica Quarterly newsletter is already being packed with Q2 2026 highlights, and trust us, you won’t want to miss this one. 🚀 If you missed the Q1 edition, now’s the time to get on the list. Last quarter, we covered: ✅ Leadership insights on navigating funding pressures, operational risk, and trial momentum ✅ New platform releases and upcoming product innovations ✅ The launch of our CRO Partnership Program ✅ Expanded consulting and services offerings ✅ Real customer success stories from research teams and sponsors ✅ Industry resources, podcasts, and conversations shaping the future of clinical research And Q2 is shaping up to be even bigger. Expect more product updates, industry perspectives, customer stories, operational insights, and behind-the-scenes looks at how research teams are accelerating studies and solving enrollment challenges in today’s environment. The clinical research landscape is moving fast, we’re building this newsletter to help you stay ahead of it. 📩 Don’t miss the Q2 edition — sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ehD8WykE #ClinicalResearch #ClinicalTrials #DigitalHealth #EDC #ResearchTechnology #OpenClinica #HealthcareInnovation

🔒 Trust is 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 in clinical research. We’re proud to share another important milestone for OpenClinica Recruit as we continue to uphold SOC2 compliance and the high standards our customers expect. 🎉 Clinical trial recruitment is complex. Study teams need technology that helps them enroll patients faster while protecting sensitive data every step of the way. That commitment to security, quality, and trust is something our team works toward every day. “𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘰𝘹𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴’ 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺.” — Ted Gilbert, Senior Director of Compliance OpenClinica Recruit helps research teams reduce complexity, connect with qualified patients sooner, and move studies forward with more confidence and less chaos. 🚀 Thank you to Prescient Security for supporting us through the audit process and helping us celebrate this achievement. #SOC2 #ClinicalResearch #PatientRecruitment #HealthTech #DataSecurity #Compliance #OpenClinica

"Low maintenance" sounds like a small thing. But for an academic research center juggling dozens of studies with a lean IT team, it's everything. It means a research assistant can build a complex cardiac study from scratch. It means new grads can be productive in just a few days. And it means an Associate Director's attention can stay on research strategy instead of firefighting. Read one team's story on our blog. → https://lnkd.in/eX3ivnJS

Launching a single study shouldn’t take months of onboarding, long contracts, or an enterprise-sized budget. That’s why we created OpenClinica Launch 🚀 A new self-service EDC platform built for: 🔹 Startups 🔹 Independent researchers 🔹 Lean biotech teams 🔹 Fast-moving studies Starting at just $750/month, Launch gives teams the ability to run a full study from start to finish using the trusted OpenClinica EDC platform! ✅ Instant setup ✅ No sales calls ✅ No annual contract ✅ Study-level controls ✅ Self-service support & compliance docs ✅ Add-ons like eConsent, eCOA, Recruit, and Code available when you need them ✅ Cancel anytime Explore OpenClinica Launch: https://lnkd.in/exHWF7C5 We’re curious 👇

The traditional recruitment toolkit — flyers, referrals, existing patient panels — was never built for the enrollment targets academic teams are expected to hit today. Our CEO David Kay is at UCLA today to have an honest conversation about this with the people actually running trials: what the data shows across hundreds of studies, where the gaps are, and what high-performing programs do differently. If you're at UCLA and running clinical research, we hope to see you there! And we'd love to start the conversation in the comments ⤵️ #ClinicalTrials #PatientRecruitment #AcademicResearch

Check it out — OpenClinica Co-Founder and CTO Cal Collins was featured on the new SCDM podcast series, The Evolution of AI in eSource, diving into what AI actually looks like in real-world clinical workflows. In Episode 1, Cal joins the SCDM eSource Implementation Consortium to share a technology vendor perspective on how AI is evolving across eCOA, EHR-to-EDC integrations, digital health, and end-to-end data flows. The conversation goes beyond the hype and gets into what teams are actually using today, the challenges they’re facing, and what it takes to adopt AI responsibly in clinical research. If you’re thinking about data quality, speed to insights, or how AI fits into your eSource strategy, this is worth a listen. Tune in here: https://lnkd.in/euaJxZMx

"Low maintenance." That's how one academic center's Associate Director described OpenClinica. They went from 5 IT staff maintaining 2 legacy studies to running dozens of concurrent trials, some with 1,000+ participants and 50+ sites. Same team, but with a fraction of the overhead. This case study is worth a read if your EDC is the thing keeping your team busy instead of your research ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eX3ivnJS

Too early to talk about #SCDM? We don’t think so. Last year's conference gave us a lot to think about. We turned it into a recap of six lessons shaping the future of clinical data management — from agentic AI to ICH-M11 and what "transformation" actually means in practice. Link to the blog in the comments. Now we want to know: will we see you in 2026? 💡

I'm looking forward to speaking at UCLA in two weeks for an on-site session with investigators and research teams. We’ll be discussing a topic that comes up in almost every conversation we have with academic teams: what actually works in clinical study recruitment today and what doesn’t. Across studies, the pattern is pretty consistent: - Fragmented recruitment channels - Disconnected workflows between recruitment and study operations - Missed enrollment targets because of demand and execution gaps We’ll share what we’re seeing across hundreds of studies, but more importantly, open it up for discussion with the people actually running trials day-to-day. If you’re at UCLA and involved in clinical research, would love to have you join.

Finding the right participants is hard. But enrollment often stalls after someone raises their hand — in the days between interest and follow-up, in the pre-screen that never gets completed, and in the handoff that introduces errors and delays. We're curious: where does your recruitment funnel lose the most participants?