The eCF REG team puts out a yearly version of the "eCF Requirements" which many orgainizations use to check compliance of their systems against regulatory authority document statements. The previous versions have been requested in order to easily check the requirements that were in place in a particular year.

This group will develop standard approaches, processes, expectations - generate minimum standards for us to meet the opinions of global regulators.  Address the problem of generic regulations and create industry guidelines more tangible and actionable.

Team started in August 2024.  The goal is to review, prioritize and standardize the audit trail review data checks based on the eCF ATR position paper (2021) and create a list of high impact checks that can be implemented by sponsor companies and technology vendors.

The goal is to produce a list and description of the essential metadata required to be able to reenact the events of the trial.

Congratulations to the joint C-Path/eCF :eCOA Best Practices" Team for publishing their paper “Best Practice Recommendations for Electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment Data Changes” in the peer-reviewed SCDM Journal “Digital First”. 

The Archiving and Decommission Team is pleased to announce the public release of three white papers:

• "The Decommissioning of Computerised Systems Used in Clinical Trials" 
• "Nature of a Distributed Trial Master File ‐ Practical Aspects"
• "Data Formats Used in Clinical Trials"

These white papers were written by a joint task force from EUCROF and the eClinical Forum, with representatives from other industry associations including ECRIN, the ePRO consortium, Medicines for Europe and the RQA.

The joint Working Group on AI/ML by eClinical Forum and EUCROF is monitoring the evolution of AI/ML technologies in the Life Sciences domain and addressing relevant topics that are of major interest for clinical research.

Elected team providing strategic direction and governance.

The Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) and eClinical Forum (eCF) Joint Task Force are pleased to announce the publication of an industry position paper “AUDIT TRAIL REVIEW: A KEY TOOL TO ENSURE DATA INTEGRITY” final version based on Industry Feedback.  With various electronic data capture modalities becoming the norm and the growing regulatory focus on data collection traceability, audit trails which capture the who, what, when, and why of electronic data entry and amendments are a critical tool.  This paper outlines an industry perspective on maximizing the value of implementing the targeted, routine review of these extremely large datasets. It provides recommendations on risk-based use cases for audit trail review (ATR) and the corresponding desired reporting criteria, with suggestions on when to use visualizations and exception report listings to generate key, actionable insights.

The REG team reviews, evaluates and interprets documents from regulatory authorities. The team is comprised of regulatory professionals from all aspects of eClinical Forum (pharma, technology vendors, support vendors, sites).

The eCF is releasing 3 documents via the eCF website “Members” area (un/pw required).  Please feel free to download them and share with other members of your company.