Crowdsource UAT: An Opportunity For Future Validation

By IQVIA

IQVIA, a leading health information technology and clinical research company, has introduced a new validation model for eTMF patterned after approaches used within the larger tech space. Its crowdsource user acceptance testing (UAT) model drives joint, cross-client UAT activities during upgrade cycles, offering eTMF vendors the ability to better support their clients while those clients collectively expend fewer resources. This is because while more traditional methods of UAT validation are likely to result in a steady increase in workload with each new upgrade cycle, crowdsourced validation can, over time, reduce workloads through objective evidence exchange. By utilizing crowdsource UAT, multiple sponsors can divide a workload, perform their assigned tasks, and receive combined, comprehensive, anonymized data from their eTMF vendor at the end of a validation cycle.