Moving the Fleet Forward – Managing Complex Trial Master Files from a TMF Project Manager Point of View

January 30, 2018

Running a tight ship while utilizing a complex TMF offers many challenges.  Although advanced document management systems are designed to simplify the process and minimize potential gaps, there are still many moving parts.  Regardless of how advanced your TMF is, it will never remove the need for basic human interaction. With a complex TMF you…

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Staying out of the Ozarks: Financial Disclosure and the TMF

January 18, 2018

Up until the day everything changed, Marty thought he lived the perfect life. Marty had the wife, the colonial framed by a white picket fence, and two picture-perfect children. Marty was reserved, logical, and in control. Marty was a top earning financial advisor. Marty was awash in money. Unfortunately, Marty also washed money… for a…

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What are your TMF Resolutions?

January 2, 2018

Why do we make resolutions? The idea of starting over with the New Year is an attractive one. After a long year, it’s human nature to detour into bad habits or lose sight of the incremental steps necessary to reach an important goal. But what are the resolutions we all have in common? Since we…

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The Twelve Days of Quality Control (QC)

December 18, 2017

We know the Holidays can be a stressful time of the year. You and your team are doing their best to meet yearend goals while hanging up the lights and fighting mall traffic. We are happy to tell you that you’ve almost reached the finish line – happily, there are fewer than twelve days until…

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Single Source of Truth: the Future of TMF Automation

November 27, 2017

Webinar Recap Sholeh Ehdaivand, CEO of LMK Consulting and Frederico Braga, principal of platform strategy and adoption at Medidata, recently spoke on a webinar how using technology such as Medidata Clinical Cloud can automate the management and creation of trial master files – accelerating processes such as study start-up for clinical ops and clinical IT.…

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What We’re Thankful For This Year

November 20, 2017

For those of us in the North Carolina office, the frosty mornings of fall are finally upon us. We all know that at this time of year, if you blink, New Year’s Eve has already come and gone.  It’s the speedy arrival of the Holidays that causes us to reflect on how quickly things can…

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The Zombie TMF

October 30, 2017

Happy Halloween from the team at LMK! We’ve been carving pumpkins, hoarding candy (some of which may survive for the trick-or-treaters), and shuffling along like zombies to Michael Jackson’s Thriller every time it pops up in our Halloween playlist. We know Halloween is scary for a lot of reasons, but realizing that the album Thriller…

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Defeating your Demogorgon: TMF Inspection Readiness

October 24, 2017

This blog post is the continuation of our two-part Stranger Things series. Check out the first post, Your Way Out of the Upside Down: TMF QC. If you happen to be a big fan of Netflix’s hit show Stranger Things, you’ve definitely noticed the countdown to the season two premier ticking away on Netflix’s home…

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Your Way Out of the Upside Down: TMF QC

October 18, 2017

The season two premier of Netflix’s hit show, Stranger Things, is less than two weeks away. Since we’re big fans here at LMK, we’ve been preparing a lot like you have: by re-watching episodes, obsessing over the new trailer, and daydreaming about what season two will hold. But at LMK, we aren’t just your normal…

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