"The use of special software allows to save up to 1 million dollars monthly on carrying out the clinical tests" These are the conclusions of its analysts Flex Databases. According to the results of internal evaluation they found that the use of special software for clinical research saves together all customers of the company up to $ 1 million per month. This is achieved through complex automation of the process of clinical research. Significant part of expenses in clinical research is necessary on the activities of the monitors. They provide the correct filling of individual doctors report form (CRF) patients. From the quality of their work depends on whether the results of clinical studies recognized regulatory bodies responsible for state registration of drugs. Pharmaceutical companies pay monitors regular visits to research centers, regular interurban talks on the phone. "When introducing electronic IGC (e-IGC) within the software application of Electronic Data Capture (EDC) the costs of the activities of the monitors are significantly reduced. The savings on logistics reaches 70%. Monitors online monitor the filling of doctors e-IGC and provide online consultations. There is no need to make a long business trip in research centers, scattered throughout the country, can all be controlled centrally", - says Director for marketing and business development Flex Databases Olga loginovsky. Introduction e-IGC minimizes the human factor and the possibility of error. The program will not let you enter an incorrect value and provide information about all fields, where mistakes were made, or the data were entered again. EDC-system significantly simplifies the process of tracking and validation of data in the CRF for the monitor and the Manager on data processing (Data Manager), and also allows health monitor more effectively to monitor the safety of the patients. A significant benefit of using EDC-systems is a full automatic monitoring and logging of all operations made by the user in the system. Data loss is impossible. The company Flex Databases, in addition to the parallel storage (clustering) in multiple data centers, provides 6 backups every day on servers in Russia and, if necessary, in Europe. Therefore, any error always easy to monitor and quickly make adjustments without delay time of clinical trials. "To minimize inaccuracies in filling out the IGC is an important indicator of the quality of clinical research. A serious error in the CRF may postpone state registration of the preparation for an indefinite period. For pharmaceutical companies, it is fraught with considerable financial losses, sometimes amounting to millions of dollars. Therefore we introduce to our clients a unified software platform for clinical trials. It allows online quality control of clinical trials at all stages and a clear plan. This includes not only the EDC, but the modules that manage the resources of the company, lead financial management, to systematize and to accumulate information structure to store the files, manage its corporate knowledge base and others. All these modules are single multifunctional platform," says Timur Galimov, technical Director of the company Flex Databases. The introduction of separate modules reduces the cost of the company's clients Flex Databases to 85%. For example, the introduction of e-learning system (LMS) reduces the cost of management training in the organization of almost 80%, and the system of management of resources leads to savings of up to 25%. Usually, all of these programs are purchased by organizations involved in clinical research (by pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations) separately, which is very expensive. Systems using different technologies, provided by different providers, often conflict with each other. Single platform allows you to avoid these problems. Using a range of programmes, specially customized for the purposes clinical studies, significantly increases its quality and saves money.