Budget, Contracts & Finance

1:30 – 2:30
Hidden Costs: Remote Monitoring & How to Budget for It

As industry continues to embrace and transition to remote monitoring, the potential staffing and financial burdens on sites mount. This session will help you evaluate the costs and value-add of remotely monitored trials, and understand what line items to keep in mind when negotiating study contracts and budgets.

2:30 – 3:30

Lessons from the Trenches: How COVID-19 Reshaped Study Budgets

The entire world, including the clinical research industry, has been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. With trials halted or closed to new enrollments, increased remote monitoring, staff lay-offs and more, we have entered a new paradigm that we must learn to navigate. Looking in the rearview mirror shows us new budget considerations that must be accommodated. This session will help you navigate “the new normal” so you are prepared and informed in the future.

1:30 – 2:30
Negotiating Like a Pro: The Low-Down on Study Budgets

As study budgets become more complex and less transparent, site staff need to become increasingly savvy with their negotiation tactics. Whether you have someone who manages your budgets or not, this session will provide an overview of all-things-budget including pass-throughs, overhead, procedural justification, and how to ask for a higher budget and actually get it.

2:30 – 3:30

Virtual Trials 101: The Nuts & Bolts of Remote Practices

Whether or not your site is ready for virtual trials, they’re here. This reality was blasted home to us all as COVID-19 circulated the globe and forced us to embrace remote trials…whether we liked it or were ready, or not. This “nuts and bolts” session will walk you through everything you need to know from insurance considerations and budget considerations, to operational challenges and how to navigate unforeseen.

1:30 – 2:30
Reinventing Your Site: During & After COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed clinical research forever. As a result, sites have had to adopt new technologies, train and coach staff, implement new processes, and create an entirely new model of conducting studies. Communicating these changes and new capabilities to sponsors, CROs and patients is essential for ongoing as well as new study opportunities. This session will explore marketing strategies and “the message” sites must create and communicate to stakeholders now and going forward.

2:30 – 3:30

Site Business Health: Withstanding Disruption During a Pandemic

Clinical research sites that intimately know their finances and take proactive steps early to prepare for and anticipate disruptions stand a better chance of surviving and even coming out of a disruption stronger. Hear from business owners what strategies they took prior to, during and following major disruptions that resulted in surviving and even thriving.