Morley Research Consortium Announces Partnership with Umthunzi for Optimum Clinical Trial Processes
Online, March 22, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Morley Research Consortium (MRC) has entered into a strategic partnership with Umthunzi, LLC, (pronunciation: uum-tunzi) that will combine the full service clinical research organization of MRC with Umthunzi's Information Technology expertise for more efficient clinical research collaboration. This partnership will merge a fully integrated electronic clinical research data management system with the ability to securely process data from multiple trial research sites resulting in more efficient data collection, analysis, and reporting. The partnership's goal is to more rapidly and securely expedite the collection and analysis of medical research results, thus providing faster and more cost effective clinical outcomes. This will be a tremendous benefit to multiple stakeholders including the trial sponsor, the participating research centers, and most importantly - the patient population. More efficient clinical trials will result in shorter research time and reduced costs, ultimately getting new, innovative drugs and medical technologies to patients in an expeditious manner.
"Morley Research Consortium is very excited to partner with Umthunzi", said Jane Green, PhD, President and CEO of Morley Research Consortium. "With many Health IT companies' software now coming under the FDA medical devices purview, this partnership provides an ideal combination of research and IT compliance for Morley's CRO based clients as well as compliance assistance to hospitals and universities. We have been working closely with Umthunzi's CEO Ramon Dempers and the entire Umthunzi team, and are impressed with their commitment to providing superior, innovative services to clinical research organizations."
"We are excited about drawing together the extensive knowledge and experience of Morley with that of Umthunzi," said Ramon Dempers, CEO of Umthunzi. "We are bringing world class products and services to the clinical research community in part though Morley's experience and their broad sponsor base." Key Umthunzi attributes benefitting the Clinical Research Organization (CRO) community are the development of breakthrough Pharmacovigilence and clinical research software, such as EDC solutions using Microsoft cloud technologies. Also, GXP, GAP analysis, Part 11 compliance and computer systems validation are critical to the overall success of clinical data and adverse event management.
Industry leaders understand that innovation of process, products and services is of paramount strategic importance in order to remain relevant. As a result of partnerships like MRC and Umthunzi, clinical research data collection has finally evolved to the 21st century. Like most industries, hard-copy paper research work will soon be a part of the past with secure electronic capabilities that are here today, and with a future driven by the creative geniuses of those who continue to innovate. Morley Research Consortium and Umthunzi are two of those innovative organizations.
About Morley Research Consortium: Morley Research Consortium (MRC) is a Full Service CRO meeting the needs of the Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and BioTech research community.
About Umthunzi: Based in Atlanta, GA and offices in Little Rock, AR, Umthunzi, is an innovative IT company providing a broad range of products and services to the Life Science community, with particular emphasis in Clinical Research.