Cmed Technology's New Timaeus 5 On-Demand eClinical Platform Focuses on Flexibility and Freedom

By Cmed Technology, PRNE
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Also Unveils Timaeus HotSpot, Industry's First Portable eClinical Suite Demonstrating Regulatory Compliant Use with Apple iPad(R), Windows(R) Notebooks

MINNEAPOLIS and BERLIN, October 18, 2010 - Cmed Technology, an eClinical technology provider, today unveiled two
product previews at two major pharmaceutical conferences. It debuted Timaeus
5, Cmed's newest version of its unified eClinical platform to manage data
from Study Design through Reporting. Timaeus 5 adds enhanced usability,
extended operational capabilities, streamlined investigator and monitor
interaction, and expanded reporting capabilities. Cmed Technology also
unveiled the Timaeus HotSpot, the industry's first portable,
regulatory-compliant eClinical suite that combines the power of the Timaeus
platform with the freedom and flexibility of a WiFi hotspot. With Timaeus
HotSpot, research organizations can set up clinics more easily and provide
physicians fast, reliable access to clinical trial data using whatever
technology they prefer: from a standard Windows(R) notebook PC to an Apple
iPad(R) or Android(TM) mobile appliance.

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Timaeus 5 and Timaeus HotSpot will be demonstrated using the Apple
iPad(R) tablet and Windows notebook PCs at Cmed Technology's booths today
through Wednesday at two conferences: the 2010 Annual SCDM (Society of
Clinical Data Management) Conference, Booth 715, at the Hyatt Regency in
Minneapolis and the PhUSE (Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange) Conference
2010, Stand 12, at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin.

Timaeus is a unified eClinical platform for electronic trial design,
electronic data capture (EDC), monitoring, medical coding, data management
(for electronic, paper and hybrid trials) and real-time reporting. Its unique
architecture uses advanced distributed computing and mobile technologies to
provide the freedom to manage any type of data, for any protocol, anywhere.
Timaeus is purpose-built to respond on-demand to the dynamic needs of
studies:

    - Design: Support both simple and complex protocols right out of the box.
    - Start-Up: Operate globally wherever investigators and patients are
      located.
    - Go-live: Incrementally go-live with pages or validation checks as they
      are created and approved, speeding data capture.
    - Conduct: Eliminate the need to manage maintenance windows of global
      studies.
    - Modification: Execute amendments worldwide without site interruption.
    - Reporting: Analyze results through real-time reporting.

Timaeus 5 adds new advances to streamline operation:

    - Ease of use: Improved usability to simplify: data access; data entry;
      resolution of upfront validation errors; and response to manual
      queries.
    - Flexibility: Integration of dynamic forms with Timaeus' native adaptive
      trial functionality to support unscheduled visits and pages in an
      intuitive, efficient manner.
    - Freedom: Extended operational capabilities that allow study teams to
      choose from an expanded range of Internet browsers and mobile and
      portable computing appliances.
    - Efficiency: Streamlined interaction between investigators and monitors
      to improve efficiency and clarity of targeted source data verification
      (SDV) -- on-site and during remote monitoring.
    - Insight: Expansion of Timaeus' built-in reporting through addition of
      clinical business intelligence capabilities and live streaming of data
      into life sciences hubs and analytics systems.

Timaeus 5 also expands the choices to use eClinical in the way that is
best for each study location:

    - Timaeus Web: Standard Internet-based operation using Windows(R)
      Internet Explorer(R), Google Chrome(TM), Mozilla Firefox(R) or Apple
      Safari(R).
    - Timaeus Mobile: Full access to data and functionality using Linux-based
      clinical appliances and Intel(R)-based Mobile Clinical Assistants
      (MCAs) that travel wherever study teams go.
    - Timaeus HotSpot: The industry's first portable eClinical suite that
      provides clinicians autonomous, reliable operation using any
      WiFi-enabled device.

Timaeus HotSpot is the latest in Cmed Technology's line of products
empowering research organizations and study teams to operate more
efficiently, in more places, with more freedom and flexibility. It extends an
autonomous "piece" of the Timaeus cloud inside the clinic using a dedicated,
secure eClinical hub, which not only captures, cleans and transmits data in
real time but also provides a range of other functions. Study investigators,
nurses and monitors gain immediate, high-speed dedicated access to full data
capture, management and reporting functionality — for multiple trials. They
also have the freedom to pick the technology interface that they most prefer.
Additionally, research organizations managing these trials can provision
clinics quickly and at low cost as well as maintain full data communication
without needing dedicated high-speed Internet connections.

"Timaeus' forward-looking architecture has allowed us to repeatedly
harness innovation as it occurs, such as the recent developments in tablet
and mobile computing," said Timothy Corbett-Clark, Cmed Technology's Chief
Technology Officer. "This lets our customers take advantage of new technology
advances without sacrificing their investments in our proven,
regulatory-compliant eClinical infrastructure."

PhUSE President Stephen Bamford is pleased that conference attendees will
be able to preview Cmed Technology's on-demand eClinical products alongside
all the other available industry technologies. "PhUSE consists of almost
1,500 selected technical members in the pharmaceutical and CRO industries,
and about one-quarter of them will be attending the Berlin conference," said
Bamford. "PhUSE is committed in providing conference participants with a
first look of innovative eClinical solutions, such as those from Cmed
Technology and all other providers."

The flexibility of Timaeus' distributed, cloud computing architecture
provides several benefits, including the ability to rapidly scale computing
resources up or down, eliminate capital investment and depreciation, and
reduce internal IT infrastructure's footprint or expand IT's capability by
incorporating private, secure cloud computing in the overall IT strategy.
Timaeus 5 is available in two options with simple pricing schemes for
customers. Timaeus-as-a-Service is offered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) in
which Cmed Technology runs the operations or Timaeus Enterprise, a turnkey
infrastructure in which customers operate their own cloud using their own IT
teams within their data centers.

About Cmed Technology

Cmed Technology, an eClinical technology provider, offers a single
platform for electronic trial design, paper and electronic data capture,
monitoring, coding, data management and reporting. Its Timaeus eClinical
platform has been built to respond on-demand to the needs of investigators,
data managers and study teams. Timaeus' unique architecture uses advanced
distributed cloud computing and mobile technologies to provide the freedom to
manage any type of data, for any protocol, anywhere. Timaeus has been used in
every phase of clinical research — including early phase, pivotal and late
phase studies as well as in globally established and emerging markets –
covering single-unit clinics to multi-thousand person studies operating
across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. A privately held subsidiary of
Cmed Group Ltd. since 2002 with roots from the University of Oxford, Cmed
Technology has offices in the United Kingdom, United States and Romania. To
learn how Cmed Technology is advancing eClinical trials in an on-demand
world, visit www.cmedtechnology.com.

    Media Contact:
    Christopher Leary
    cleary@cmedtechnology.com or +1-908-795-2006

Christopher Leary, +1-908-795-2006, cleary at cmedtechnology.com

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