Integrating EHR and EDC Systems with Hugh Levaux

One of the most time and resource intensive tasks in clinical research is data entry.  Clinical research coordinators spend countless hours transferring clinical data from a patient's Electronic Health Record (EHR) into a study specific Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system.  This is annoying because the research coordinator could instead spend those hours on recruiting patients.  A direct EHR to EDC "connection" could easily solve this issue.  In fact such a solution does exist and the brain child behind this endeavor is our guest today, Dr. Hugh Levaux, founder and CEO of Protocol First.  Hugh is a clinical research expert and digital transformation leader. He is also a data nerd (in a good way), which I really appreciate and like about him.  Hugh has over 20 years of dedicated experience in clinical trial design and operations, as well as web-based technologies.  Most notably, Hugh has held the roles of SVP at United BioSource Corporation (UBC), VP of Product Strategy at Medidata Solutions, CEO of Ninaza, a web-based EDC provider, and SVP at Quintiles (currently known as IQVIA). Hugh has developed and commercialized multiple eClinical technologies in EDC, IVR/RTSM, ePRO/eCOA and trial-related technologies. Prior to his career in the clinical trials industry, he worked as an analyst at the RAND Corporation, where he worked for US government clients (US Air Force and intelligence community) and private sector clients (oil and aerospace). Before RAND, he worked in Japan at Panasonic. Hugh holds a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School and has also received master's degrees in international economics and international relations from SAIS at Johns Hopkins University and international politics from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Japanese. Please join me in welcoming Hugh to the Clinical Trial Podcast. Hugh Levaux on Twitter and LinkedIn Protocol First on Twitter and LinkedIn