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Cost of Manual Work — Clinical Trials Operations
See what repetitive manual work is costing Clinical Trials Operations teams each year — where patient recruitment is the single biggest cause of trial delay; sites enroll well below plan and the sponsor cost-of-delay runs into seven-figures-per-day on Phase III studies.
What this means for Clinical Trials Operations
- Patient recruitment is the single biggest cause of trial delay; sites enroll well below plan and the sponsor cost-of-delay runs into seven-figures-per-day on Phase III studies.
- Protocol amendments are frequent, expensive, and operationally disruptive — every amendment ripples through CTMS, EDC, eConsent, and site training.
- Regulatory and quality discipline (GCP, ICH, 21 CFR Part 11, EU CTR) is non-negotiable and the audit-and-evidence workflow is sustained.
Where it pays to act
- Patient-recruitment AI — site-and-cohort identification, EHR-and-claims-based outreach, and pre-screening automation.
- Protocol-design and amendment-impact AI — protocol complexity scoring, amendment-impact simulation, and operational-feasibility prediction.
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What manual work costs you
Annual cost
₹6.6 L
People-weeks / year
33
Recoverable via automation
₹4.62 L
Payback
7.8 mo
What this means
Clinical Trials Operations teams lose 33 people-weeks a year to this work — about ₹6.6 L. Automating the routine ~70% recovers ₹4.62 L a year.
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Cost of manual work — summary
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