Dedicated Scientific Oversight for Your Study
More than an eCOA technology company, uMotif provides expert scientific consultation to ensure you’re getting the best outcome for your trial.
Everything we do at uMotif is informed by Science.
Learn more about our Scientific Services.
Scientific Consulting
With experience across all therapeutic areas, our Science team can provide scientific oversight across the lifecycle of your trial, to ensure you get the right data, at the right time, in clinic or remotely.
Core services include:
- Protocol input from early engagement to finalization — ensuring optimization for electronic data capture
- Study design and COA strategy consulting
- eCOA modality consultation
- eCOA solution study design and build oversight
- Expert guidance on migration/implementation of complex eCOAs
- Bespoke diary development and design
- Personalized study training modules — for both sites and participants
Scale Management and Translations
uMotif offers full scale management and translation services to streamline activities, including:
- Identifying copyright holders/developers/distributors
- Acquiring licenses for the correct versions and available translations
- Handling all communication with copyright holders
- Coordinating translation and localization work
We leverage our existing and established relationships with instrument owners, authors, and copyright holders, and our industry know-how on navigating this process, to secure permissions for COA use.
The result? Faster time to signature and deployment of licensed COAs.
The Team
The Science Team at uMotif is led by Dr. Florence Mowlem, an expert eCOA scientist who has spent her career advising and guiding organizations on eCOA and the use of DHTs for endpoint data collection in clinical trials.
The team brings 50+ years of combined experience, bringing a deep knowledge of clinical research, user-centric study design, and leveraging technology to support it, to ensure all uMotif solutions meet scientific, industry, and regulatory best practices.
Recent Thought Leadership / Key Publications
- The challenges of buying blind: Why providing the clinical outcome assessment measure prior to license execution would significantly benefit clinical trial set-up, Applied Clinical Trials
- Accessible data collection methods in clinical trials: Do current best practices for the implementation of electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) meet accessibility standards? Springer Nature Link
- Best practice recommendations and considerations for designing and electronically implementing event-driven diaries in clinical trials, npj Digital Medicine
- Retention in Pediatric Rare Disease Clinical Trials, International Clinical Trials: Summer 2025
- Flexible approaches to ePROM data collection in clinical trials: Concerns of instrument developers and copyright holders, Critical Path Institute
- Navigating the intersection of accessibility and measurement integrity in eCOA, Applied Clinical Trials
- Data collection in clinical trials with multiple caregivers, Applied Clinical Trials
- A new and comprehensive guide to ePRO migration and implementation, Applied Clinical Trials
- Best Practices for the Electronic Implementation and Migration of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures,Value in Health
- Spanish and cross-cultural validation of the mind excessively wandering scale, Frontiers in Psychology
- Optimizing electronic capture of patient-reported outcome measures in oncology clinical trials: Lessons learned from a qualitative study, Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
- Progressing BYOD adoption, Applied Clinical Trials
- Regulatory acceptance of patient-reported outcome (PRO) data from bring-your-own-device (BYOD) solutions to support medical product labeling claims: Let’s share the success stories to move the industry forward, PubMed
- Citalopram did not significantly improve anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder Undergoing Treatment for Core Symptoms: Secondary Analysis of a Trial to Reduce Repetitive Behaviors,Sage Journals
- Novel algorithms deriving clinical performance measures from smartphone sensor data collected under a walking test, bioRxiv
- Wandering minds in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and borderline personality disorder, European Neuropsychopharmacology
- Validation of the mind excessively wandering scale and the relationship of mind wandering to impairment in adult ADHD, Journal of Attention Disorders
- Sex differences in predicting ADHD clinical diagnosis and pharmacological treatment, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Evaluating a scale of excessive mind wandering among males and females with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder from a population sample, Scientific Reports
- How the weather affects the pain of citizen scientists using a smartphone app, npj Digital Medicine
