Flex Advantage
Helping clinical trials deliver the right drug to the right patient at the right time.
Flex Advantage is a configurable and fully customisable web-based platform that provides an effective and efficient solution for managing patient data collection, enrolment, randomisation and drug supply/dosing regimens regardless of trial complexity. Fully validated and 21 CFR compliant, our system is specially built to meet the needs of each unique study. Our team of IRT experts provides rapid and intelligent solutions to sponsors to ensure timely study builds.
Superior quality
The ICON IRT Team brings more than 20 years’ experience and extensive industry knowledge to ensure the successful design and management of clinical trials. Our proven expertise ensures a rapid user requirements process and superior quality build.
Rapid and flexible study builds
ICON’s Flex Advantage platform is a configurable and fully customisable solution. With the flexibility to support simple and complex builds, IRT can build studies in as little as four weeks.
Extensive integrated solutions
Flex Advantage can integrate with any clinical trial system. Uni-directional and bi-directional integration solutions provide seamless access to clinical data from various sources, enabling you to make the best decisions quickly.
Simplified clinical supplies management
Flex Advantage streamlines your clinical supply chain and provides end to end efficiency with intuitive navigation, seamless access, shipment acknowledgement reminders, and automated temperature excursion tracking.
Expert support
ICON provides a dedicated IRT team from system build and through the trial lifecycle. Our IRT HelpDesk provides 24/7 end-user support that resolves 90% of incidents within minutes, and is supported by IT infrastructure ensuring 99.9% uptime.
Client testimonial:
“Thanks to our Clinical Supplies Manager’s wide expertise and knowledge when setting up and optimising the drug supply for our global phase III trial, a potential shortage in the IMP supply was detected early and could be mitigated before any problem had arisen”.
Clinical Program Lead, Diamyd
- Randomisation methods Flex Advantage supports numerous randomisation methods, with easy configuration to suit the needs of each trial, including Central, Blocked, Stratified, Cohort assigned and BCM.
- Patient safety Flex Advantage enables authorised persons to perform emergency and/or safety unblinding throughout the trial and includes additional safeguards that prevent inappropriate sharing of blinded information.
- Clinical supplies management Works in tandem with Flex Advantage, or stand-alone, to leverage a suite of clinical trial supply management tools to streamline and manage inventory, distribution/dispensation, enable supply optimisation and reduce costs and wastage.
- Data visibility A robust suite of real-time web, analytical, ad hoc and customisable reports and reporting capabilities aimed at empowering study teams to quickly analyse study data.
- Bi-directional data flow Flex Advantage provides industry leading integration technologies, allowing for seamless data flow between the IRT system and any integrated platform. This enables faster decision-making, higher data integrity and decreased reconciliation. Established and standardised integrations with vendors allow for quicker start-up times, reduced costs, faster shipping times and end-to-end visibility of patient and clinical supply data.
- Self-serve Built-in utilities allow users to take control directly within the system, including: drug supply management, expiration management, batch management, drug release, manual shipments, site activation, drug reconciliation, cohort management and end-user data changes.
Randomisation methods
Flex Advantage supports numerous randomisation methods, with easy configuration to suit the needs of each trial, including Central, Blocked, Stratified, Cohort assigned and BCM.
Patient safety
Flex Advantage enables authorised persons to perform emergency and/or safety unblinding throughout the trial and includes additional safeguards that prevent inappropriate sharing of blinded information.
Clinical supplies management
Works in tandem with Flex Advantage, or stand-alone, to leverage a suite of clinical trial supply management tools to streamline and manage inventory, distribution/dispensation, enable supply optimisation and reduce costs and wastage.
Data visibility
A robust suite of real-time web, analytical, ad hoc and customisable reports and reporting capabilities aimed at empowering study teams to quickly analyse study data.
Bi-directional data flow
Flex Advantage provides industry leading integration technologies, allowing for seamless data flow between the IRT system and any integrated platform. This enables faster decision-making, higher data integrity and decreased reconciliation. Established and standardised integrations with vendors allow for quicker start-up times, reduced costs, faster shipping times and end-to-end visibility of patient and clinical supply data.
Self-serve
Built-in utilities allow users to take control directly within the system, including: drug supply management, expiration management, batch management, drug release, manual shipments, site activation, drug reconciliation, cohort management and end-user data changes.
Flex Advantage Express
In keeping with the changing clinical trial landscape, Flex Advantage Express offers an economical IRT solution for those trials that require little to no customisation. Flex Advantage Express offers IRT essentials such as screening, enrolment, randomisation, dispensation, emergency unblinding/reporting and notifications. Optional services may be attached to any level and these services can include UAT script writing, packlist/randomisation list generation and additional integrations.
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2700+
Studies implemented worldwide -
150+
Indications in 28 therapeutic areas -
102,00
Managed sites -
35M+
Patient transactions -
74
Supported languages in more than 106 countries
Factsheet: User Acceptance Testing in IRT deployment
Building confidence among trial teams, sponsors and stakeholders.
Factsheet: Flex Advantage
ICON developed the Interactive Response Technology (IRT) platform, FLEX ADVANTAGE, with the patient and site in mind.
Factsheet: Clinical Supplies Management
Ensuring the study drug is where and when it is needed, while reducing sponsor risk and cost.
Factsheet: Flex Advantage Express
An economical IRT solution for trials requiring little to no customisation
Case study: Flex Advantage
Flexible, robust and rapid IRT solution for an international infectious disease trial.