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Blog April 22, 2026 Jim Wagner Accelerating Hope at Scale We started with a bold thesis on clinical trials - here's what three years taught us, and where we're headed next. Three years ago, we wrote a post on this blog titled Revolutionizing Agreement Col

Press FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2026 WCG to Acquire The Contract Network, Extending ClinSphere's AI-Driven Site Enablement Capabilities Across Study Start-Up CARY, NC - April 21, 2026 - WCG, a global leader in providing solutions that measurably imp

CARY, NC - April 21, 2026 - WCG, a global leader in providing solutions that measurably improve and accelerate clinical research, today announced an

Blog March 26, 2026 Jim Wagner The Goldilocks Problem: What We Can All Learn from Physicians Using AI The debate over AI tends to swing between two simplistic positions. In one, AI is overhyped and professionals should trust their own expertise. In the ot

Blog March 17, 2026 Jim Wagner We're Building Our Own AI Report Card. Here's Why We Did It and Why We Want You on the Journey. Clinical research moves carefully. That's not an accident, it's a feature. When the stakes are human health and scientific integ

Blog March 11, 2026 The Contract Network How ACRI Cut Clinical Trial Agreement Turnaround Time by 43% Arkansas Children's Research Institute accelerated the clinical trial agreement negotiations, without expanding headcount or sacrificing negotiation rigo

Blog February 9, 2026 Jim Wagner Before the market declared SaaS dead, it should have tested Anthropic's new tools first. We did. The stock market wiped hundreds of billions in value before anyone ran an actual test. We ran three. Article Technical Deep D

Blog January 20, 2026 Jim Wagner A Note to the Teacher: My Team Needs Real AI You can't lead what you don't understand. And you can't understand what you're not allowed to touch. I give about a dozen presentations a year on AI-related topics. Recently, th

Downloads January 12, 2026 The Contract Network Download the 2026 AI Playbook for Clinical Operations A practical roadmap to move from AI curiosity to measurable workflow transformation, starting with the administrative work that slows study activation. A

Blog December 22, 2025 Jim Wagner Rethinking Ourselves, Our Organizations, and the Move to "Human Above the Loop" Essay 3 of 3: AI Planning for 2026 This is the third essay in a three-part series on what clinical operations leaders should know about AI go