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Leading Prostate Cancer Research Consortium Goes Live On Velos
San Francisco, CA — May 6, 2004 — Velos, Inc., an
innovative clinical research software provider, today announced
system ‘go-live’ of a highly regarded clinical research cooperative.
The lead centers, all members of the Therapy Consortium of the
Prostate Cancer Foundation, include Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns
Hopkins, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, and the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer
Center (the “Consortium”). Several other cancer research centers of
distinction who are also members of the Consortium will soon install
the Velos system for clinical data collection.
The Consortium
has put Velos eResearch in production to support clinical trials
funded by the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the National Cancer
Institute. Velos eResearch is an internet and intranet product line
designed for study site professionals that supports patient
recruitment, study monitoring, project planning, study design,
protocol compliance, budget management, data safety monitoring, and
clinical data management. The Consortium also plans to use Velos to
support future industry-sponsored clinical trials.
"Velos
eResearch will accelerate the information sharing process among
medical centers of excellence participating in clinical trials and
speed up the process of drug development," said Dr. Howard I. Scher,
Chief of the Genitourinary Oncology Service at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering and a member of the Therapy Consortium. "We expect
this to have a major impact on clinical trials in that it will allow
Centers to reduce costs, improve the quality of study data;
eliminate the chance of error, and help trial sites communicate more
efficiently and effectively."
“The exceptional organizations
that comprise the Consortium share our vision to help transform
clinical research from its current disintegrated state to a new era
of productivity,” notes John S. McIlwain, President of Velos. “This
is achieved by integrating with internal systems at the Centers,
supporting multiple research projects in one system, and connecting
the researchers with their collaborators and sponsors. These
thought-leading Centers are on course to achieve unprecedented
levels of information-driven productivity.”
About Velos
Velos, Inc. (http://www.velos.com/) is a leading
designer and developer of next-generation healthcare information
systems. Velos eResearch has been purchased by five of the top ten hospitals, four of the top
ten cancer centers, and three of the top ten cardiology and
cardiology surgery centers in the United States. Velos is privately
held with headquarters in Silicon Valley.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are
subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking
statements.
Additional information regarding Velos may be obtained by
contacting Madalynne Chapman (510-580-2661 / mchapman@velos.com) or visit our corporate website http://www.velos.com/
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