Using an e-CRF of Excellence, like an AirTel e-CRF, greatly improves data quality while lowering study monitoring and management costs.

These advantages are similar to those coming, for instance, from modern telecommunication technologies: just think of e-mail, which has dramatically sped up delivery times at costs close to zero.

The Investigator is the real judge

The key to an e-CRF's success is the Clinical Investigators' use it confidently and frequently. The truth of the matter is that Investigators are not likely to criticize e-CRFs: if the software is not user-friendly, or if it requires skills above average, they will simply not use it.

This is why Airon Telematica's main concern is a straightforward user interface. An interface specifically designed for Doctors, who are always in a hurry and often on call for emergencies. For Doctors, who are obviously expert in clinical matters, are not necessarily technology wizards. And they shouldn't have to be.

But it is the Sponsor that verifies the procedures

Especially in Phase 2-4 studies, a huge amount of requirements must be fulfilled in order to satisfy Sponsor Quality and Regulatory requirements.
Sometimes is not enough to comply with GCPs; every action or amendment must be officially approved and implemented; final data should be valid and in a standard data format, so that any statistical software (SAP, SAS) can accept it for elaboration.

And the CRO is in charge of the back-office

The most important advantages of an e-CRF are usually hidden under the apparent simplicity of the user-interface.
But when the CRA or the Monitoring staff access the e-CRF, that its true power becomes evident, allowing for immediate identification of inconsistencies and/or mismatched data, for easy queries generation and sending, for simple data reconciliation with paper source-data.