Trial Connect Simplifies Time- and Site-Independent Medical Research Clinical and biomedical basic research is increasingly undertaken in overall, multicentric networks. Working with large data volumes is also intensifying fast. Trial Connect takes up these trends and offers users an ideal environment in which to carry out, for example, image-based clinical studies. Trial Connect is designed for research teams at universities, hospitals as well as contract research institutes and the pharmaceutical industry that need to manage scientific data efficiently, site-independently, and sustainably. What users get is an end-to-end tool environment in which they can work on studies across their entire life cycle and with a wide range of interfaces. The process chain extends from setting up new studies, sequence control and project communication to evaluating and analyzing image data by means of innovative Web technologies. By integrating solutions that merge customer-specific case report forms and image d ata evaluation modules the platform becomes a central study platform without media discontinuities. Trial Connect uses Deutsche Telekom’s data centers that fully comply with German data protection standards. So these certificated data centers provide a trustworthy and reasonably priced environment in which to archive data and facilitate a wide range of data reuse. The Web-based research platform is scalable for all study sizes, so the platform costs can be planned transparently and limited effectively. High-Powered Infrastructure Change The proportion of science and research organized in multicentric networks is growing constantly. At the same time more and more studies use imaging techniques because they enable proof of the efficacy or side-effects of therapies to be provided swiftly and comprehensibly. In the future, large-volume data sources such as the genome or proteome will play an increasing role in studies. tomized requirements. The central platform simplifies working in several studies and makes possible a detailed overview of the status at any given time. If desired, data recorded by Trial Connect can be transferred to a protected long-term archive from which it can be migrated easily into other systems and are then available both for reliable documentation and for further use. Key Benefits of Trial Connect: In the post-PC era new solutions for Web-based data management have become possible that are used consistently in Trial Connect. Solutions like the advanced DICOM Viewer, developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute, are introduced by highly qualified partners. The Solution With Trial Connect, studies of any size or complexity can be managed safely and cost-efficiently. The clearly structured, Web-based work environment provides researchers with processes and functions that can be used flexibly to record, share, assess, and analyze study data. For precise evaluations users work in detailed views. Trial Connect maps the entire lifecycle of numeric and image data. Researchers also receive fully developed, technically mature components for location-independent image evaluation. The offering ranges from comfortable and secure uploading of data to arriving at Web-based results and integrating customized evaluation algorithms. The platform character enables the implementation of further data types and integration with existing systems so that study processing, documented end to end, can be undertaken to highly cus- to find out more, visit www.telekom-healthcare.com E-mail: health@t-systems.com Consistency: Comprehensive Web-based solution for study design, project control, collaboration, data management, image filing, image evaluation, and long-term archiving Process Efficiency: Time- and place-independent uploading and processing of study data Flexibility: Trial Connect is scalable to different study sizes and modular for expansion to include, for example, (partially) automated image evaluation or future additional data types External Integration Capability: Trial Connect can be integrated with external (such as customers’ own) case report form systems, expanding them to include complex image and data processing and analysis options Internal Integration Capability: In addition to the DICOM Viewer, display and evaluation functionalities for further modalities can be integrated, including customers’ own solutions Cost Effectiveness: A solution for studies of all sizes and degrees of complexity that is scalable and comes with volume-independent storage of image data Sustainability: Data lifecycle can be fully structured – from study design to replication and follow-up uses Availability: Redundant ISO/IEC 27001-certificated data centers ensure access to data Data Protection: Data storage that complies with German and conforms to EU data protection legislation Eases Burden on in-house IT resources: System maintenance and development by Telekom as an independent platform operator The Contract Model Users pay a one-off setup fee and can use all of Trial Connect’s basic functions. Image data can be billed independently of volume. Subject to research requirements, further options can be booked, so study operators pay only for what they actually use. published by Deutsche Telekom AG Telekom Healthcare Solutions 53262 Bonn, Germany