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Summary

EMA notice to clinical trial sponsors on validating and qualifying computerised systems, such as electronic case report forms and patient reported outcome tools.

EMA guideline for clinical trials on computerised systems and electronic data. It covers data integrity, responsibilities, validation, audit trails, user management, security, data migration and archiving, and it includes artificial intelligence. It replaced the 2010 reflection paper on electronic source data.

Lifecycle
  • 7 Apr 2020 First published
  • 29 Oct 2026 Revision 1: administrative update of references
  • 18 Jun 2021 Public consultation started
  • 17 Dec 2021 Public consultation closed
  • 7 Mar 2023 Final version adopted by the GCP Inspectors Working Group
  • 10 Mar 2023 Final version published
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Source: EMA.
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Source: EMA.

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