Case Study: Southampton Clinical Trials Unit achieves digital transformation and rapid COVID-19 trial support with Medidata Solutions

How Medidata helped Southampton Clinical Trials Unit accelerate its digital transformation journey and provided support during the global health pandemic

Southampton Clinical Trials Unit (SCTU), an academic CTU within the University of Southampton running non-commercial cancer trials, faced slow, paper-based workflows, multiple logins and duplicate data entry while relying on non-specialized university IT. After a competitive tender, SCTU selected the Medidata Rave Clinical Cloud for its unified functionality and favorable academic pricing to modernize and streamline trial operations.

With Medidata’s professional services and training, SCTU implemented Rave in six months and now runs 20–25 active studies using Rave CTMS, EDC, TSDV, Coder and RTSM (and eConsent for COVID work). The change delivered 100% electronic data capture, reduced data-entry burden and password/excel reliance, removed duplicate systems and university IT reliance, improved regulatory confidence and data sharing, and enabled rapid setup and execution of COVID-19 trials such as the AGILE platform.

Southampton Clinical Trials Unit

Susannah Condie

Head of Clinical Data Management