hey guys Serg here today we're going to be talking about remote monitoring verse
traditional monitoring but is remote monitoring going to kill off traditional
monitoring up next
hey guys there's a common misconception about the differences between remote
monitoring and traditional monitoring and how they're going to be used in
conjunction with each other or whether one is gonna win out over the other over
the long term and I'm here to tell you that neither one is gonna kill off the
other one or remote monitoring is not gonna kill off traditional monitoring in
the near future maybe in the super super long term but there's gonna have to be a
lot of things to happen to kill off traditional monitoring but there really
to be used in conjunction with each other so that's good news for a lot of
reasons the sights like having remote monitors on their studies because they
always have someone who they can reach out to and talk to if they have a
particular question who's gonna respond usually a lot faster than a traditional
monitor is because they're always in a plane somewhere they're always on-site
dealing with other issues somewhere so they don't always respond in a timely
manner in fact they sometimes rarely respond in
a timely manner especially considering at what part of a study it is or how
busy or stressed they are so they like having remote monitors oftentimes you
know in housey Ras things of that sort so they can ask questions to them also
when used appropriately see arrays should like having remote monitors -
because remote monitors can collect documents remotely from the site so the
C array does have to necessarily worry about that the remote monitor can answer
those questions like we talked about so the CRA doesn't have a full inbox
dealing with a lot of questions they have to answer you know the remote
monitor can really help out when used appropriately in conjunction with a
build CRA and that's really where the industry is heading and don't get
confused with remote monitoring risk-based monitoring that's something
completely different and don't get that confused risk-based monitoring is really
like a strategy of a drink but remote monitoring is and
remote monitoring and traditional monitoring is something that's going to
be used in conjunction with one another like I said the remote monitor can
collect different documents they can do different things they can close out
queries remotely they can upload the team ups things to the TMF that can all
be done by a remote monitor they will have remote calls with the site to ask
them about any questions and you know it doesn't call it doesn't cost a lot of
money to have a remote call with the site for like 30 minutes or an hour and
you can keep the site more on track with collecting data following the protocol
making sure that they're doing what they need to be doing so that when the CRA
goes on site the CRA can more so focus on things that only can be done on site
like IP accountability or source document verification those are things
that can only be done on site for the most part there are some instances where
there is some remote source data verification but as far as IP
accountability there is you know they're all there's only one way to go go
on-site and to check that out to people site see arrows and send sponsors even
though traditional monitoring is more expensive than remote monitoring there
is something to be said for always going on-site and really developing a
relationship with the people that are collecting the data you want to build
that relationship especially if you're the CRO and the sponsor because at the
sponsor level then you have a relationship with the site that you can
use for future studies and same thing at the CEO level for future studies it may
be easier to recruit pis into those studies if you have that
personal relationship and you really build that relationship through your CRA
s so traditional monitoring isn't going anywhere just the way it's done is going
to be slightly altered because it's gonna be done in conjunction with the
remote monitors or sometimes they're called in-house C Ras sometimes they're
called remote site managers sometimes they're called central monitoring
Associates or clinical monitoring Associates whatever the name is there
monitors and they all do roughly the same thing so they're really to be used
in conjunction with one another and we don't see that changing for a while a
lot of Sierras have trouble with incorporating a remote monitor into
their workflow because usually they're used to doing everything themselves
they're used to being in charge of everything and their being the primary
contact for the site and when there's somebody else involved in the workflow
it can be pretty confusing for COAS so we're not gonna fault them they're
like like any time there's a significant change it can be confusing so CRA
sometimes don't necessarily like having remote monitors but I think in the long
term see arrays will like having remote monitors and it should make the job even
easier for them so just want to talk about that if you're interested in
becoming a CRA a remote monitor or just breaking into the clinical research
field we do have a resume review program for people specifically that entering in
clinical research will probably need it the most but we do have that so if
you're interested email us that elite clinical group at gmail.com for any
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