Clinical trial and healthcare insights, grounded in data.

Since 2012 we have helped biopharma companies, CROs, hospitals and governments see where clinical research happens, how health systems perform, and where to act.

  • USD 1.3 bn

    Value of industry-sponsored clinical trials in Poland in 2019, supporting around 9,000 jobs.

    Report for INFARMA and POLCRO, 2022

  • 200×

    Lower population-adjusted access to trials of novel compounds in the Middle East and North Africa than in the US.

    Misik et al., Applied Clinical Research, Clinical Trials & Regulatory Affairs, 2017

  • 12 countries

    Arab countries benchmarked on trial participation against pharmaceutical consumption.

    Mišík, Boleček, Brady, Research Ethics in the Arab Region, Springer 2017

Clinical trial analytics

LT Analytics, our online platform for self-service research.

LT Analytics brings standardised data on industry-sponsored clinical trials from many sources into one place, so you can run your own reports. Subscribe to the full suite or to a single module.

LT Trend

Global trending and geographic benchmarking

  • Filter by company, therapeutic area, product, country and trial status
  • Understand competitors’ trial portfolios, timelines and country market share
  • Compare active trial trends across regions, countries and sponsors
  • See each country’s accessibility to clinical trials and its trial reputation
  • Export charts and data to Excel and PowerPoint

For pharma, CROs, medical institutions, regulators, patient groups, investors and media.

LT Plan

Planning new clinical trials

  • Improve site selection by finding the right sites and investigators
  • Review competitors’ protocol design: objectives, inclusion and exclusion criteria, endpoints
  • Analyse several data sources in one place
  • View investigators on a map or export the list to Excel
  • Analyst support and training included

For pharma, CROs, medical institutions, regulators, investors and media.

LT Perform

Performance improvement and internal benchmarking

  • Measure your teams on productivity, delivery and customer satisfaction
  • Benchmark performance across the countries in your organisation
  • Find areas to improve and recognise strong performance

For CROs and sponsors running trials in several countries.

Request a demo We reply from info@longtaal.com, usually within two working days.

Clinical trial & healthcare insights

Advisory, research and reporting from the LongTaal Institute.

When you need interpretation as well as data, our advisory team combines LongTaal data with scientific and industry literature and its own expertise, and delivers reports, research papers and presentations.

Clinical trial insights

For sponsors, CROs, industry associations and research institutions

Country and regional landscape reports
Market share, growth scenarios and economic impact of clinical research, such as our report on Poland for INFARMA and POLCRO.
Feasibility and site selection
Faster, more accurate feasibility studies based on where comparable trials have run and how they performed.
Competitor and portfolio intelligence
Who is running what, where, and how fast, by therapeutic area and sponsor.
Research and publications
Peer-reviewed papers and conference material on trial globalisation, access and research ethics.

Healthcare insights & consulting

For ministries, payers, hospitals and healthcare providers

Health system financing
How care is funded and paid for: revenue sources, payment mechanisms, budget impact and value for money.
Quality of care research
Indicator design, measurement of outcomes and processes, comparison of providers and regions, and programme evaluation.
Healthcare provider strategy
Service portfolio, demand and catchment analysis, positioning, and clinical research as a strategic asset for hospitals.
Evidence for health policy
Analyses and policy briefs that help decision-makers and patient organisations act on data.

Who we work with

  • Pharma and biotech
  • Contract research organisations
  • Hospitals and medical institutions
  • Regulators and government
  • Policy-makers and payers
  • Patient advocacy groups
  • Investors
  • Media

What clients say

Market data from LT Trend made us far more credible with new clients, because we could show detailed knowledge of the clinical landscape. Our feasibilities became faster and more accurate, on average 30% faster, and LT Perform now lets us assess our teams on productivity, delivery and customer satisfaction.

General manager, small CRO

As a scientist and later a large CRO executive, I helped LongTaal design the products I was looking for but could not find on the market. Feedback from customers is a constant loop that keeps improving them.

Executive, major global CRO

News & research

Reports, publications and company news.

  • Report on industry clinical trials in Poland

    Commissioned by INFARMA and POLCRO and powered by LT Analytics. Poland ranked 11th worldwide by trial market share in 2019. The report models a growth and a correction scenario to 2030, a difference of about USD 6.3 billion. Available in English and Polish.

    Request the report
  • Rare disease clinical research: untapped potential in MENA

    The region has over 900 identified common genetic disorders, modern facilities and internationally aligned regulation, yet the ten largest rare-disease sponsors have run only about 70 studies there since 2008. Includes three country case studies.

    Request the report
  • Recent trends in globalisation of industry R&D clinical trials: are emerging markets losing their allure?

    Misik, Brady, Boleček and Klech analyse Phase II and III trial sites from 2009 to 2014. North America and Western Europe kept over 70% of trial share, Central and Eastern Europe held steady, and MENA stayed below 0.2%.

  • Ethical considerations of industry-sponsored clinical trials in the Arab region

    LongTaal Institute analytics for a chapter in Springer’s Research Ethics in the Arab Region, comparing trial participation with pharmaceutical consumption in 12 Arab countries.

    Read the chapter on Springer
Earlier news, 2016–2017
  • In the news: raising the value of clinical trials in Saudi Arabia

    Seminars hosted by Roche Saudi Arabia with Dr Vladimir Misik. Trials could give around 5,000 Saudi patients a year access to new therapies, create over 2,000 high-end jobs and bring about USD 160 million in annual R&D investment.

  • #LTFact: highest accessibility to biopharma R&D clinical trials

    Belgium, the USA or Hungary: which gives patients the most access to trials per million population? The answer is Hungary, reflecting the long-standing strength of Central and Eastern Europe in clinical research.

  • LongTaal expands its partnership base

    New partnerships with SanaClis, PPH plus and nRollmed extend our services across trial operations, consultancy and patient recruitment.

  • LongTaal among the top 30 business ideas of 2017

    Shortlisted from about 200 start-ups in the Software category of the Vodafone Idea of the Year awards.

  • LongTaal at SCOPE 2017

    With SanaClis, we demonstrated LT Analytics to sponsors and CROs at SCOPE 2017 in Miami.

  • Case study: clinical research in Saudi Arabia

    A real-life example of LongTaal analytics, presented at the Clinical Research in Turkey, Middle East & North Africa Leaders Forum in Dubai.

  • Clinical trials intelligence for the whole industry

    Data on over 55,000 industry-sponsored studies in more than 150 countries, organised into 24 therapeutic areas and about 1,700 sub-areas, with trends at country, regional and global level.

  • SanaClis selects LongTaal as strategic partner

    SanaClis, a full-service CRO in Central and Eastern Europe, chose LongTaal as its clinical trial analytics partner in 2015.

About LongTaal

Founded in 2012 in Bratislava.

LongTaal was founded by a small team of experts in biomedical research and development. We give policy-makers, medical institutions, biopharmaceutical companies and contract research organisations easy access to information about industry-sponsored clinical trials and the health systems they run in.

Our clients use these insights to plan trials faster and more accurately, assess market potential and market share, focus business development, estimate clinical research revenue and study demographic trends. As they find new uses for the data, we extend our services to match.

Partners

  • SanaClisFull-service CRO in Central and Eastern Europe
  • PPH plusClinical trial operations and consultancy, Phases I–IV
  • nRollmedPatient recruitment and retention

Contact

Tell us what you need to know and we will suggest how to get there.

info@longtaal.com

Office

LongTaal s.r.o.
Staré grunty 61
841 04 Bratislava
Slovakia

Company details

ID (IČO): 46 769 676
VAT: SK 2023571935
Registered in the Commercial Register of Bratislava I District Court, section Sro, insert no. 82947/B

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