ePharmaSolutions, a leading provider of clinical services and trial management technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry announced that it has been selected along with its client Genentech, Inc as the winner of the Bio-IT World Best Practice Award for its Clinical Trial Portal solution. Winners were selected from 72 submissions in 7 categories by a peer reviewed panel of 14 expert judges. The ePharmaSolutions Clinical Trial Portal Solution won in the Clinical Trials Management category.

"We are absolutely thrilled that our application is recognized as the most innovative clinical trial management solution by such a distinguished panel of judges," stated Lance Converse, Founder and CEO of ePharmaSolutions. "We have worked exceptionally hard to develop solutions that help solve some of the industries biggest causes of study delays. This award validates our mission and strategy to provide to the industry with best in class solutions that facilitates ongoing communication and collaboration between all of the stakeholders in the clinical trial process," added Converse.

The Clinical Trial Portal was developed to provide pharmaceutical companies with a common technology platform to streamline and accelerate site selection, activation, training, patient recruitment and communication. In addition, the Clinical Trial Portal uses a federated user identity management model that provides users with one set of credentials across all sponsors to help reduce the amount of userIDs and passcodes that are typically required in this industry. The Clinical Trial Portal currently hosts 143,000 active clinical research users from 107 countries for the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world.

"To be selected along side such companies as Wyeth, GSK, Merck, Abbott and AstraZeneca is truly an honor," said Enrico DePaolis, President & Chief Operating Officer for ePharmaSolutions. "Our teams have been working exceptionally hard to develop solutions that meet our client needs, while ensuring they are simple and easy for sites to adopt and use. The credit really should go to them," added DePaolis.

In today's technology-driven clinical trials environment, sponsors and sites are required to use dozens of new technologies for every study they conduct, typically having to remember different user credentials for each technology. The Clinical Trial Portal helps streamline and systematize clinical trial workflow between sponsors and sites providing one userID and one URL for all of the studies they conduct while providing detailed and dashboard level reporting to help manage the entire process at the user, site, study and enterprise level.

For an interactive demonstration of the Clinical Trial Portal go to http://courses.epharmasolutions.com/diasomedemo/shortdemo.htm.

ePharmaSolutions (www.ePharmaSolutions.com) is a leading provider of technology-based clinical services that helps improve the way sites are selected, trained, activated and support to commence clinical trials and meet enrollment goals. ePharmaSolutions has activated and trained more than 143,000 clinical researchers in 107 countries for the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world. ePharmaSolutions is headquartered in Philadelphia with offices in London. For more information call 610-832-9915.