Frequently Asked Questions
TA Scan is a web-based clinical and commercial intelligence solution, which aggregates, connects, and analyzes global clinical trial, presentation, publication, and diversity and demographic data from the public domain into a single, intuitive database. TA Scan data represents an accurate, comprehensive view of global R&D activity, allowing both Clinical and Medical Affairs teams to make more informed, data-driven decisions around their study design, feasibility, site identification, diversity strategies, and key opinion leader (KOL) identification and engagement strategies.
We believe in a Customer First approach and provide a true ongoing partnership with our clients to ensure teams derive the full value of our data.
TA Scan allows Medical Affairs teams to identify key opinion leaders (KOLs), authors, or speakers by analyzing publication, presentation, trial data, patient ethnicity data, and fee disclosures. TA Scan’s proprietary tiering algorithms save time and manual effort in ranking and scoring relevant KOLs and visualizing KOL networks and affiliations. Fee disclosures highlight competitor KOL relationships and enable fee benchmarking. Automated weekly data updates help to streamline KOL engagement workflows and support ongoing KOL relationships.
TA Scan provides API access for flexible data delivery, allowing users to integrate TA Scan’s data into broader data lakes of both public and private data, making it easier to access and use data in various applications.
TA Scan provides strategic and operational value to Clinical Operations, Medical Affairs, and commercial teams working on clinical trial planning, marketing, and commercial projects. It provides a centralized data source, saving time and reducing reliance on anecdotal evidence by providing data-driven actionable insights.
TA Scan solutions are designed to provide maximum flexibility to meet your needs, offering three distinct ways to access and leverage our comprehensive data:
Web-Based Application: TA Scan’s intuitive web-based application allows users to explore, analyze, and visualize clinical trial data effortlessly. With user-friendly dashboards, advanced filtering options, and detailed insights, the application supports site selection, KOL/investigator identification, and clinical trial feasibility assessments, among others. We believe in a Customer First approach and provide a true ongoing partnership with our clients to ensure teams derive the full value of our data, supported by an expert team with a response time of less than 24h.
API Data Services: For organizations looking to integrate clinical trial intelligence directly into their internal systems, our robust API services provide access to high-quality data sets, including unbiased scores and rankings.
Data-as-a-Service (DaaS): TA Scan’s DaaS offering provides tailored data delivery based on your specific requirements. Whether you need targeted datasets for rare disease trials or specific sub-populations, rapid RFP responses, or in-depth competitive analyses, the TA Scan team acts as an extension of yours, ensuring fast and precise data delivery.
TA Scan integrates data from hundreds of public domain sources, including multiple clinical trial registries globally, publications from PubMed, conferences, drug and mode of action information, fee disclosures, census data, Medicare, among others. TA Scan data is refreshed weekly, ensuring complete and up-to-date information.
TA Scan provides clinical intelligence along with granular semantic search capability and advanced analytics, allowing Clinical Operations teams to quickly and easily understand the competitive landscape for any given patient population. TA Scan supports clinical trial planning by helping teams identify experienced sites and investigators with the capacity to recruit, locate enrollment benchmarks for similar trials, provide key global diversity and demographic data insights and more.
TA Scan’s flagship analytics module, Feasibility Flex, allows users to:
- Build enrollment scenarios with high-quality data, enhanced by user insights, for accurate and tailored predictive enrollment projections.
- Visualize projected country-level timelines, with options to customize regulatory delay/country start-up timelines.
- Prioritize sites based on experience and capacity to take on additional trials, and fine-tune projections and site recommendations by adjusting trial parameters. TA Scan’s Site Capacity Calculator provides capacity estimates of sites in just a few clicks by reviewing site workload within a specified search criteria (indication, specific patient population, phase, mode of action, etc) over a defined period. In visualizing site capacity over time, it supports informed data-driven site selection.
Yes, TA Scan’s team of clinical experts can support any custom data deliverables through our Data-as-a-Service offering. We have experience in providing tailored protocol or project specific analysis and deliverables to support both clinical and commercial planning.
Deliverables can include global competitive landscaping, country and site feasibility data, site capacity insights, diversity and demographic data, enrolment benchmarking and predictive enrollment projections, investigator/site lists, KOL identification and profiling, speaker/author identification, KOL benchmarking through fee disclosures and more.
TA Scan enables users to monitor the global competitive landscape for indications, specific drugs, modes of action, assess competitors’ clinical and RWD strategies, analyze competing trial timelines, and track publications and presentations related to competitive compounds.
Our broad, global data coverage allows teams to quickly understand investigator, key opinion leader (KOL) and site relationships with sponsors, and benchmark those relationships via fee disclosures. With up-to-date insights and built-in analytics, TA Scan supports strategic decision-making throughout the product lifecycle.
TA Scan solutions provide tailored data delivery based on a CRO’s specific requirements, via TA Scan subscription or Data-as-a-Service. Whether you need a site list, strategic feasibility analysis, or support with timely RFP responses, the TA Scan team has the fastest turnaround time with a full analysis delivered in just 48h.
