eCF Views: Your fellow eCFers want to know (read!) your thoughts!  Do you have anything you would like to discuss? Check out our discussion board!

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eCF News:

• Registrations are now open for our 2026 Spring Workshops!!

  • APAC: April 2-3 in Tokyo, hosted by Novartis. 

  • Europe: April 14-16 in Paris, hosted by Servier. 

  • Americas: April 28-30 in Malvern, hosted by YPrime.

• Invitations with a registration link have been sent out. Each eCF Member company can use 1 or 2 seats depending on membership type and as allocated by your eCF Primary Rep. 

• Topics are currently being developed. We are still looking for exiting ideas and innovations in the field of AI and its future in clinical research. If you have any ideas (including for other topics) contact one of our facilitators (see email addresses below). 

• If you are interested in RBQM and Audit Trail Review, join us for this month’s eCF Webinar “From Fixing Data to Fixing Processes: RBQM, ATRA and Fit-for-Purpose Data”. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, February 25, at 14:00 UTC, and will look at RBQM in the context of end-to-end data review, which data sets matter, and what actions teams should actually take. If you are interested in signing up, please write jana.summa@me.com 

• After many months of work and internal review, we are happy to announce the public release of the eCF industry position paper "Audit Trail Review: Strategies for implementing Audit Trail Review”. The paper focuses on turning audit trail review into structured, risk-based, operational practice and is now available for public download on our website: ATRA Position Paper. This is a significant work done by the eCF ATRA team over the past year. The team will provide a webinar to discuss the paper's practical implementations in March 2026, details and dates will follow soon. 

eCF Views & News is a monthly newsletter of the eClinical Forum (www.eclinicalforum.org) to keep our members informed. Please feel free to forward this email to your colleagues. Please let us know if colleague(s) want to be added to this monthly distribution!

Your eCF facilitators are always interested in what you have to say … Wolfgang.Summa@eClinicalForum.org, Sean.Higashio@eClinicalForum.org, Jana.Summa@eClinicalForum.org, Tom.Haag@eClinicalForum.org.