Medidata Solutions, a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical technology solutions, announced that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has decided to implement Medidata Designer, an innovative study design optimization solution, for its Clinical Research and Development organization. Using Designer, GSK can consistently design studies that meet key objectives and collect necessary data in a streamlined and efficient manner.

“Medidata Designer is unique in its ability to help sponsors more efficiently manage the process of study design, as well as bring efficiency to the actual design of their studies and downstream study execution,” said Glen de Vries, president, Medidata Solutions. “Using Designer’s cost and complexity benchmarking, along with its easy-to-use interface and protocol quality controls, GSK can eliminate unnecessary procedures and focus its efforts on the most important study objectives.”

Medidata Designer drives study design quality with a CDISC-compliant data model that enforces the links across objectives, end points and procedures. This reusable metadata accelerates system setup, such as electronic data capture build, and automates the derivation of protocols and other key clinical deliverables. It improves compliance with standards, allows clinicians to focus on the science of clinical research and not on document management, and speeds study starts, shortening time to market for new therapies.

Medidata Solutions is a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical technology solutions that enhance the efficiency of customers’ clinical development processes and optimize their research and development investments. Medidata products and services allow customers to achieve clinical results more efficiently and effectively by streamlining the design, planning and management of key aspects of the clinical development process, including protocol development (Medidata Designer), investigator benchmarking and budgeting (Medidata Grants Manager), contract research organization (CRO) benchmarking and budgeting (Medidata CRO Contractor), and the capture, management, analysis and reporting of clinical trial data (Medidata Rave).