RealTime-CTMS

RealTime: It's Far More Than A CTMS

Kommentare: Having so our processes and materials sensibly organized and readily accessible in one place has improved our overall efficiency. It supports our QA/ QC processes in ways that have allowed us to improve the quality of our data and accounts receivable. We are especially impressed with all the the staff at RealTime. The quality of training, support and maintenance has been excellent.

Vorteile:

Great user interface, sensible workflow/ navigation and exceptional functionality aside, it was designed, developed and continues to be enhanced by people who have actually done clinical trials. This is evident in every aspect of the software. The whole product suite and related offerings, e.g., eDocs, eSource, SitePAY and Text are terrific, and for us it is evolving to be an overall Business Management System.

Nachteile:

We would like to see more granularity in access privileges.

RealTime has been a big help for our finances!

Kommentare: We needed a CTMS that helped us separate from our SMO and go into research on our own. This software helped us get set up and organized from Day 1, easing the transition to perform all administrative functions in house instead of outsourcing.

Vorteile:

I love how the accounting side helps link patient visits to reimbursements. This has made my job so much better for AP/AR and tracking payments.

Nachteile:

There is a learning curve, but once you get past that, it really is easy to use!

NZ site review

Kommentare: Finding our way around the system has been relatively easy. A few items are not that applicable to sites not based in US. An edit function on existing invoices would be a real bonus.

Vorteile:

All trial information in one place for staff. Lots of fields for patient information is great too.

Nachteile:

Would like to be able to add GST to our invoices. Would like to be able to amend invoices after created.

RealTime at SRA

Kommentare: RealTime is something of a go to at our company. Any time anyone has a question regarding a study, a participant, scheduling, our answer to each other is always, "did you check RealTime?" The best part is that through RealTime we're always able to get the answers that we need. And if it's not something we're sure RealTime can give us, the support staff is always more than happy to walk us through a feature that we may not have realized existed. We have been using RealTime for close to two years now, and through updates and additional features, there really isn't anything RealTime can't provide for us. In regulatory, I especially love the document feature. It centralizes a place for our consents and protocols so that when coordinators or the marketing department has a question, they can reference the source material. The addition of subject documents has been invaluable as well. Rather than coming up with a filing system that's arguably archaic, it makes it easy to reference a participant's prescreen right in their profile. It saves us space and time to be able to have this information readily available. The best thing, though, I could say about RealTime is that is has features we didn't know we wanted. I could try to come up with things that could be added or improved on, but the truth is RealTime is always a step ahead of us. Every time a new feature is launched, I find myself saying, "oh yeah, that would be helpful!"

Vorteile:

The ease of use and the availability for help. We have interns and some staff who only use RealTime for specific things, like referencing the calendar, or scheduling appointments. Because RealTime is so user friendly, we don't have to spend much time training our new staff on how it works. And even if a training session is required, it's great that the team at RealTime can provide this for us.

Nachteile:

I honestly do not have any complaints at this time.

Financial Reports sold us!

Vorteile:

1. One of our biggest must haves when selecting a new CTMS was the financials. We love the fact we can do study revenue reports and many others! 2. The ease of building studies. Especially the copy feature for visits as well as copy and past of arms into other studies. 3. We like the many options to accommodate the complicated budgets we need to enter.

Nachteile:

1. It is not very easy to post a check that is paid with many line items and payment amounts that need to be adjusted to match the sponsor payment. 2. When emailing invoice to sponsor, there is no mechanism to ensure email was received such as a reach receipt by Sponsor. Also, there is no option to assign your own invoice # to invoices or accept RT number given. The system automatically assigns # based on last invoice. When you have multiple sites, it can pose a challenge. We can narrow it down by site and study under the manage study invoices for viewing only. 3. When adding arms… the arms have to go in alphabetical order of the arm name, instead of the order we choose. When we do arms 1-20, arm 10 falls after arm 1 and before arm 2, instead of after arm 9, and that is because the system reads everything alphabetically and numbers only up to 9. It should give us the option.