Pharmaceutical companies and healthcare researchers spend billions on visiting trial sites and creating paper documents that are then scanned to send to the Food and Drug Administration, noted Ryan Jones, founder and CEO of Florence Healthcare in the report. The company’s software, called the Florence eBinder Suite, will allow researchers to share information regarding clinical trials with each other and with agencies like the FDA.
Currently, healthcare facilities like the University of California San Francisco and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City use Florence Healthcare’s software. The company will use the new funds to increase adoption of the software, according to the report.
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