Merge Healthcare Inc announced that Tampa General Hospital selected Merge’s CTMS for Investigators solution for enterprise-wide management of its clinical trials.

Tampa General Hospital’s goal was to increase efficiency and centralize their business operations. They will use CTMS to manage more than 500 active studies annually across all therapeutic areas and track study activities for more than 100 study coordinators. Billing compliance, financial accountability, patient and enrollment tracking, and reporting for management oversight were all important criteria in selecting a CTMS system.

The ability for the CTMS to integrate with an existing electronic medical record (EMR) system was also a priority for Tampa General Hospital, so users could have easy access to study patients from a centralized database used throughout the hospital.

Another factor in the hospital’s decision was HL7 integration, which allows the hospital to feed data from its Epic EMR into Merge CTMS.