Food & Drug Law Weekly recently reported that one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands is using Six Sigma to improve its management of clinical trials. The Atrium Medical Center currently conducts about 70 clinical trials per year for major pharmaceutical companies. Its new system will be able to handle as many as 240 trials simultaneously. It will also allow faster trial preparation, better quality results and improved customer service.

“Pharmaceutical companies judge our clinical trial work by the quality of the results and the speed and cost effectiveness with which those results are delivered,” says Graham Ramsay, a member of Atrium’s board of directors. “We’ll be able to deliver high-quality results to our pharmaceutical clients more rapidly and with reduced paperwork, while making certain that the innovative projects we choose to support and implement are the ones that will most greatly benefit those who turn to us for their health care needs.”

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