Lost Prepaid Expense Card? Keep Calm and Carry On
Reloadable credit cards have changed the game when it comes to billing and patient reimbursement for clinical trial expenses. The cards have made it easier than ever for patients to manage their [...]
Hotel or Apartment: How to Choose
Depending on where you live, you may be lucky enough to have clinical trials available nearby. Many patients might only live a few hours from their site, while others are halfway across the [...]
Clinical Breakthroughs and Patient Praise at MassBio’s Annual Patient Advocacy Day
Oh, how enjoyable it was to attend the MassBio’s Patient Advocacy Summit 2019. For those of you who are not familiar, patient advocacy is an area of health care focused on advocacy for patients, [...]
Medical Visas for Clinical Trial Travel: What Patients Should Know
The U.S. and many other countries have various types and requirements when it comes to visas for international visitors. The type of visa required often depends on the nature of travel – whether [...]
Skip the Taxi, Clinical Patients Will Thank You
Many of us take for granted the ability to quickly grab a taxi or ride share from the airport to our final destination. Apps have made it easier than ever to coordinate that short, last leg of [...]
Colpitts Goes Beyond Travel
Colpitts has become a recognized name in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries as a specialist in clinical trial travel. Many sponsors and site coordinators – over 700 of them – have [...]
When Clinical Becomes Personal
In terms of building interpersonal relationships with patients, travel coordination for clinical trials may sound like it’s a pretty hands-off job. One might assume that our clinical coordinators [...]
Tales of a Clinical Trial Travel Coordinator
Travel coordination sounds pretty straightforward – book flights, hotels, ground transportation, etc. When travel involves clinical trial patients, you then have to consider long-term and medical [...]
Language Translation a Key Component of Global Services for Clinical Trials
Clinical trials recruit patients from all over the world. Particularly in the research of rare diseases, it is not uncommon for trial participants to travel from all corners of the globe in [...]