How Does Mosio Compare to Twilio for Text Messaging? We get asked this question by clients sometimes and the confusion is understandable. Twilio is a very popular developer platform for text messaging and voice services. It has done a lot for text messaging and is actually one of our vendors. A client asked last week, […]
Several years ago, clients and others would ask us “so why don’t you have an app, are you going to build one?” With Apple spending millions on “there’s an app for that” ads, it made sense. We always responded with “Mosio works on the most popular app on every mobile phone: text messaging.” Sometimes we […]
7 Ways to Increase Clinical Trial Patient Engagement with SMS Try to pinpoint one area of your clinical trial that, if improved, would positively impact the rest of the trial…All the way down to the resulting data. What would it be? While there are many crucial elements of a successful trial, many agree that a […]
3 Ways Text Messaging Improves Behavioral Science Research We’ve talked quite a bit about how text messaging software complements clinical trials, many of which are pharmaceutical or device-based. But what about social science research? These behavioral science research studies place an acute focus on thoughts, feelings, and actions taken during certain events and scenarios that […]
There’s been a growing buzz around the use of wearable devices in clinical research…And for good reason! These types of devices have the potential to change the game, from the type of data we’re collecting, to the way we’re collecting it. While integrating wearables in clinical trials seems to be a natural extension of the […]
Text messaging – The Medication and Pill Reminder App That Isn’t an App at All Statistics and reports in pharmaceutical research show that patient non-adherence to clinical trial protocol has extremely negative effects on both clinical AND financial trial outcomes…You can run the most organized trial with the most experienced, top-tier staff, but if your patient […]
6 Ways Text Messaging Improves Site-Less Clinical Trials There has been a lot of talk about the concept of “site-less” clinical trials (also known as direct-to-patient, patient-centric, remote and virtual trials), clinical studies that take place remotely rather than at a clinical site. Normally, participants come to a specified clinical site to coordinate care, protocol, and […]
12 of Our Favorite REDCap Tips As Mosio Development team looks for new ways to integrate our service and assist our partners, we find that we keep coming back to the REDCap training and tips posts. We’ve compiled some great sources for you, along with 12 stand-out tips from each: 1. REDCap Data Dictionary – […]
3 Reasons Why Text Messaging is a Better Way to Engage Clinical Trial Patients Than Anything You’re Using Now Outside of site visits, it’s extremely important for patient care to be at the core of your clinical study activities, so they feel connected and engaged with the study process. The significance of having engaged patients […]
Applied Clinical Trials (written by Moe Alsumidaie from AnnexClinical) just released a fascinating article detailing the staggering financial impact of participant non-adherence to study protocol in clinical trials. It’s easy to overlook the financial ramifications to participant non-adherence. “Non-Adherence: A Direct Influence on Clinical Trial Duration and Cost” makes this information extremely accessible, using charts […]
11 Ways Text Messaging Makes REDCap Data Capture Software Even More Powerful Many of us recognize REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture software), created and managed by Vanderbilt University, as a leading tool for building and managing online surveys and databases. This secure, web-based data collection software is often utilized by research clients who want to […]
Save NIH Funding: 3 Things You Can Do Right Now The NIH (National Institutes of Health), a world-wide leader in health and research innovation, needs our support: Budget cuts of $1.2 billion for 2017 and 20% ($5.8 billion) for 2018 have been proposed. These are cuts that will have a negative impact on healthcare innovation […]