eCF Views: Have you looked at the eCF Discussion Board lately? Lots of good stuff in there, including...

• eCF Poetry Contest in honor of our 25th Anniversary!  Who can "write" the best poem about the eClinical Forum using your own witty brain :) or AI assistance? Please post your poem (limerick, haiku, prose, whatever...) into the eCF Discussion Forum and let us know how you wrote it (good old fashioned way ... or way of the future). If you used AI, let us know which one you used. ALL eCF members can vote for their favorite by making a reply to it. Poems due by Jan 1. All “voting” should be done by Jan 6 and winner will be decided on Jan 7. There will be a prize!. Have fun!! (Psst! There are already a few poems in there!! Discussion Forums (eclinicalforum.org) )
• Do you have a question for your eCF colleagues??  Just  login to the  Discussion Forums (eclinicalforum.org)  … You will need a member account to login … but it’s easy to get one .. anyone from an eCF member organization can register for free via  Home (eclinicalforum.org).

eCF News:

• eCF 25^th Anniversary Fun-Fact: The anniversary year has come to an end, and so this is the last fun fact... and it’s also the last newsletter that I (Suzanne) will write as I am retiring after 20 wonderful years supporting you all. Over the years eCF had evolved to a huge organization under Richard Perkin's leadership, and has continued to evolve as Wolfgang Summa took the role of chairman when Richard retired in 2023 and continued to grow our membership through our entry into the India region. I have loved my 20 years with the eCF and feel confident that eCF is thriving with the support of Wolfgang, Sean, Jana, Ken, and now our newest support team member, Tom Haag. We are really happy to welcome Tom to take over many of the roles that I have been doing. Tom has been a member of the eCF for about 18 years and is now an independent quality management consultant. Tom will be the North America workshop facilitator, Project manager for REG and eSRA and support for the DHT and AI Teams, Webinar support, and Newsletter support. Jana is the Europe workshop facilitator and also supports the ATRA and eSRA teams and our website (and lots of other miscellaneous tasks!). Sean is the Asia workshop facilitator, and Ken is supporting the Essential Medidata Team and also providing Asia perspective on the REG and eSRA teams. Wolfgang is managing the big picture and administration (no small task!), and supporting everyone else as needed.  It is amazing how a small group of part-time consultants has been able to support and grow everything that eCF has done over the years, and that is because of the truly wonderful members of the eCF who volunteer their time to make our project teams, webinars and workshops so successful.  I have full faith that eCF will continue to thrive for the next 25 years!

• Spring workshops are already being planned!!
  • Asia Hybrid Workshop – April 2-3 2026,  hosted by Novartis in Tokyo
  • Europe Hybrid Workshop – April 14-16 2026, hosted by Servier outside of Paris.
  • North America Workshop – April 28-30 2026, hosted by YPrime outside of Philadelphia.
  • We are finalizing our agenda – please send suggestions for presenters about AI case studies, validation and future areas of application to any of the facilitators (emails below)
• Dec 9^th -- Technology Showcase with eClinical Solutions: elluminate Assist – AI-driven SDTM study data analysis assistant. This tool uses Generative AI to interpret plain-language user prompts, generate accurate SQL code, and retrieve the resulting data. Registration is open to anyone from an eCF member company: eCF Tech Showcase: eClinical Solutions: AI-driven SDTM study data analysis assistant
• Congratulations to the Essential Medidata Team under the leadership of Alan Yeomans and Ninika Kamra for an outstanding meeting with the EMA GCP IWG and other industry stakeholders on Nov 24th. They presented our position on the decommissioning of studies as the main option when using computerised systems in clinical research (as opposed to leaving the study live in the system, migrating it to another system or recommissioning it in the system at the date of inspection). The presentation was well received, leading to a deeper understanding of the issues involved by the Inspectors. We expect we have changed some minds on this!  The EM team will hold a webinar for eCF on January 13th – please register: eCF Webinar "Essential Medidata Team EMA Presentation Review"

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.