
The Situation: A global pharmaceutical company recognized that 20% of clinical assay result datasets were consuming 80% of resources in terms of collecting; merging and formatting the results to make them suitable for loading into clinical data repositories. The majority of assays (the “80%”) fall into the established data management process; they are well established mature methods and are available through larger commercial labs. These assay results are typically consolidated through the Central Laboratory vendor and provided to the Sponsor as regular well formatted and sample reconciled data feeds.