eCF Views: Your fellow eCFers want to know (read!) your thoughts!  Please check out the new activity on our Discussion Board, such as… 

• How to demonstrate that data management/data review tasks have been completed per plan
• Are your study sites objecting to downloading patient data at the end of the study?
• Start a new discussion! (none are too narrow or too broad). 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 via Home (eclinicalforum.org).

eCF News:

• eCF wishes you a Happy New Year! Now that the holidays are over and everyone is getting back into the office, we wish you all a very happy, healthy, and successful year ahead! As we head into 2026, let’s take a moment to look back at the past year together: From leadership transitions to welcoming new team members and saying goodbye to some of our long-time members, 2025 brought many changes with it. We celebrated 25 years of eCF with a new look, hosted our first workshop since 2019 in India, and welcomed more than 40 participants to our spring workshop in Philadelphia, our largest workshop yet. From numerous publications of our working groups to many successful webinars and tech showcases, it is amazing to see how our dedicated community of extraordinary members continues to achieve so much together!! As the eClinical Forum continues to evolve and grow in 2026, we want to thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to another year of lively discussions, shared learnings, and collaborative working!
• Save-the-date for our 2026 Spring Workshops!!
  • APAC: April 2-3 in Tokyo, hosted by Novartis. 
  • Europe: April 14-16 in Paris, hosted by Servier. This hybrid workshop will be live-streamed, and anyone can register for remote participation! 
  • Americas: April 28-30 in Malvern, hosted by YPrime.
  • Topics are currently being developed. If you have ideas or offers,  contact one of our facilitators (see email addresses below). Registrations will open soon, and more details will be coming to your email inbox, including a high-level agenda!!
• Over the next weeks, the Audit Trail Review (ATRA) working group will host two more Tech Vendor Reviews. Past presentations by Medidata, eClinical Solutions, i2e and CluePoints were a great success in giving insights into different ATRA capacities, and recordings can be found in the members section of the eCF website. If you’re interested in attending the upcoming reviews, or presenting your company’s solution, please contact Jana (jana.summa@eclinicalforum.org).
• This week, the Essential Metadata Team gave a presentation on their meeting with the EMA GCP IWG in November 2025, and we had some very lively and insightful discussions. For anyone interested who couldn’t make it, the recording can now be found on the eCF Website. 

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.