System and method for conducting a clinical trial

摘要

The present invention provides a system and method for conducting a clinical trial. The system includes a central clinical administration authority (CCTA) connected to a plurality of clinical trial centers (CTC) over a communicating means. Test persons are allocated clinical materials at the CTC. The CCTA administrates and coordinates the conduct of the clinical trial over these CTC. Clinical trial data (data relating to test persons and clinical materials) is stored in databases in each of the CTC. Each CTC has a software module that enables the exchange of trial administration data (data relating to administrating and coordinating the clinical trial, e.g. inventory levels of the clinical material in CTC, data regarding allocation of clinical materials to test persons) between the CTC and the CCTA on the basis of availability of the communicating means. The clinical trial data is stored in the CTC in encrypted format. The CCTA provides decryption keys to the CTC in order to decrypt the clinical trial data. <IMAGE>