ICON: Icon Portfolio of Ai Tools Drives Clinical Trial Efficiencies

ICON plc announced the expansion of its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that deliver efficiencies across the clinical trial process, including study startup, document management, resource forecasting and metrics reporting. ICON has invested significantly in its AI and digital capabilities through the establishment of its AI Centre of Excellence. The centre, which comprises a dedicated team of data scientists, engineers and domain experts, is responsible for developing and deploying AI solutions that accelerate trials, enhance data and optimise operational efficiencies. The centre is supported by an AI Governance Committee, which oversees ethical, legal and data privacy standards in the deployment of new solutions. The latest solutions to be launched are: Submit, which automates the clinical trial document management process. It uses AI to improve compliance, reduce the burden on clinical project teams, and manage documents in an efficient and accurate way based on defined rules. Mapi Research Trust COA leverages AI to remain current with latest Clinical Outcome Assessments (COAs) from public sources in near real-time. It provides comprehensive intelligence to support optimal clinical trial protocols/designs. FORWARD+ is an AI-enabled capability that provides industry-leading visibility into resource demands, allocations and forecasting. FORWARD+ ensures efficient resource management through the clinical trial process. Study Start-up Site Contracts is an AI-enabled capability that streamlines the clinical contract drafting process by leveraging historical clinical contracts in order to create comprehensive near final draft contracts. OMR AI Navigation Assistant empowers operational clinical study metrics with generative AI to provide industry-leading analytics to transform data into business insights. Based on its success to date in implementing innovative AI solutions for its customers, ICON plans to further enhance its award-winning capabilities in how AI can drive productivity and efficiencies in clinical trials, with support from Enterprise Ireland. This sustained focus on investment in AI solutions by ICON will support its customers as they look to overcome some of the challenges in realising the potential of AI in drug development. A recent ICON survey of biopharma companies found that 13% of respondents indicated that while AI and digital technologies are being heavily used in single development programs, it is challenging for organisations to systemically incorporate them, possibly due to the complexity of managing such strategic, enterprise-scale digital disruption. ICON plc announced the expansion of its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that deliver efficiencies across the clinical trial process, including study startup, document management, resource forecasting and metrics reporting. ICON has invested significantly in its AI and digital capabilities through the establishment of its AI Centre of Excellence. The centre, which comprises a dedicated team of data scientists, engineers and domain experts, is responsible for developing and deploying AI solutions that accelerate trials, enhance data and optimise operational efficiencies. The centre is supported by an AI Governance Committee, which oversees ethical, legal and data privacy standards in the deployment of new solutions. The latest solutions to be launched are: Submit, which automates the clinical trial document management process. It uses AI to improve compliance, reduce the burden on clinical project teams, and manage documents in an efficient and accurate way based on defined rules. Mapi Research Trust COA leverages AI to remain current with latest Clinical Outcome Assessments (COAs) from public sources in near real-time. It provides comprehensive intelligence to support optimal clinical trial protocols/designs. FORWARD+ is an AI-enabled capability that provides industry-leading visibility into resource demands, allocations and forecasting. FORWARD+ ensures efficient resource management through the clinical trial process. Study Start-up Site Contracts is an AI-enabled capability that streamlines the clinical contract drafting process by leveraging historical clinical contracts in order to create comprehensive near final draft contracts. OMR AI Navigation Assistant empowers operational clinical study metrics with generative AI to provide industry-leading analytics to transform data into business insights. Based on its success to date in implementing innovative AI solutions for its customers, ICON plans to further enhance its award-winning capabilities in how AI can drive productivity and efficiencies in clinical trials, with support from Enterprise Ireland. This sustained focus on investment in AI solutions by ICON will support its customers as they look to overcome some of the challenges in realising the potential of AI in drug development. A recent ICON survey of biopharma companies found that 13% of respondents indicated that while AI and digital technologies are being heavily used in single development programs, it is challenging for organisations to systemically incorporate them, possibly due to the complexity of managing such strategic, enterprise-scale digital disruption.