SCDM Innovation Award 2025 Winner Veeva Orchestrates and Automates Clinical Data
The 2025 SCDM Innovation Awards celebrate organizations that excel in integrating clinical data science and drive progress in healthcare through people, processes, or technology. This year’s winner for Innovation in Health Technology Innovation is Veeva Systems, for partnering with life sciences companies to aggregate, clean, and transform clinical data.
Veeva Clinical Database (CDB) cleans data up to 50% faster than traditional approaches, delivering clean and concurrent clinical data in near real-time. Veeva’s Pavel Burmenko, lead for Veeva CDB, outlines the company’s vision for clinical data management and the significance of winning an SCDM Innovation Award.
Pavel Burmenko on winning the SCDM Innovation Award for Health Technology Innovation.
Better science in clinical data is closer than ever as the industry leverages advanced technology and AI begins to deliver value. This shift is happening quickly to address the growing complexity of clinical studies. Taking a risk-based, pragmatic approach to trials can help us focus on the data that really matters while minimizing the toll of processing redundant data. For clinical data managers, this is key as they are increasingly stretched for time and expected to play an increasingly strategic role in clinical trials.
Data management complexity is only increasing, since almost 75% of clinical trial data is currently being collected from sources outside of the EDC and trials leverage data from more than 10 sources on average. The disparate data in trials requires simpler aggregation and cleaning methods that target information critical for analysis and participant safety.
Veeva CDB presents a significant advancement for the industry where manual data reconciliation and review is still the norm. Data managers report they spend 12 hours per week per study manually cleaning and reconciling data.
With Veeva CDB, sponsors and CROs can automate data reconciliation by aggregating data from different sources, automatically transforming and harmonizing it, and delivering a single package for downstream use and insights. Features like automated change detection reduce redundancies and lower the manual effort of cleaning data so companies can gain faster access to clean, usable data and accelerate database lock.
Veeva CDB delivers oversight features that give sponsors real-time visibility into data readiness via the Clean Patient Tracker. Cross-functional data review progress is automatically documented and tracked via a dashboard, and data manager strategy can be evaluated instantly with built-in query efficacy metrics.
We’re honored to win the SCDM Innovation Award for Health Technology Innovation. Veeva will continue partnering with the industry to drive meaningful change in data management and make clinical trials faster and more efficient for the benefit of patients.
Want to learn more? Watch on-demand Veeva’s summit where clinical experts from Atorus, Keenova (formerly known as Endo), and ImmunityBio, Inc. meet to discuss taking ownership of clinical data and achieving faster, more efficient trials. The discussion also includes key takeaways from SCDM 2025.
