Prelude Launches Study Builder, a DIY Solution That Puts The Study Build In Your Hands

Prelude Dynamics announces Study Builder, a new solution that puts EDC development into the hands of the clinical trial community and raises the industry standard for DIY Clinical Trial Development. Study Builder’s drag-and-drop interface and robust set of features is based on the globally-recognized and 21 CFR compliant Prelude EDC platform, and provides unsurpassed functionality out-of-the-box.

“We wanted to make Prelude EDC’s capabilities available to users such as small pharma companies, the education community and sponsors who conduct pilot studies on a large scale .” said Dr. Alicia Browner, Chief Technology Officer, Prelude Dynamics. “Our Study Builder tool delivers big EDC functionality at a small price.”

Speedy Development, Integrated Hosting

With Study Builder, users are able to develop quality EDC solutions quickly and with minimal training. Since hosting is provided for Study Builder licensees, hardware and web connectivity issues are a thing of the past, and distributed data collection across the country and around the world is facilitated.

Robust Feature Set

In addition to the standard features supported by Prelude’s Prelude EDC platform, Study Builder provides:

• Study visit configuration
• Re-usable form library
• Powerful edit checks
• Calculations across forms
• Conditional field display
• XML and HTML Export
• Role-based permissions
• Randomization
• Site Invoicing
• Dictionary coding (e.g. VeDDRA)
• Electronic lab interface (e.g. IDEXX)

Submission-Ready Datasets

Study Builder’s ability to provide data-cleaning functionality at data entry time, along with embedded utilities such as Search, Reports, Statistics and Queries, reduces the time required to prepare datasets for submission. The integrated XML Export capability generates files that may be seamlessly imported into SAS and similar tools – saving even more time.

Prelude Dynamics is an industry leader at providing innovative software-as-a-service technology solutions for clinical trials across the globe. The company’s flagship product, Prelude EDC, offers secure and configurable data capture and information awareness tools for the advancement of human and animal health, compliant with FDA/CVM and EMEA regulations. Prelude EDC facilitates real-time data collection, querying, cleaning, reporting, and analysis all based on the needs of the researchers. The company was established in 2003 with a goal to speed the study process, improve data quality, and facilitate easy data entry through automation.