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MotilityCount ApS Launched Their Clinical Study in Just One Week with Harbor
Featured | Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Traditional EDC vendors often force clinical sponsors into lengthy, rigid build timelines and hefty price tags, delaying life-changing science. To bypass these bottlenecks, NOVA Genomics and MotilityCount ApS worked with Harbor to launch a 1,600-patient study in just nine days.
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
Regulatory compliance in clinical trials isn't just about checking boxes: it's about keeping things on track, and preventing cascading delays and costly remediation. Discover what 21 CFR Part 11 actually requires, and why staying compliant is so important for making sure clinical trials run smoothly.
Albert Cai
Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Clinical study start-ups are frequently derailed by a minefield of logistical bottlenecks, siloed systems, and unpredictable review cycles that inflate budgets and delay treatments. Discover how Harbor’s AI-powered tools eliminate unnecessary friction by rapidly building your EDC database to help you beat your start-up timelines.
Albert Cai
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Traditional EDC vendors often force clinical sponsors into lengthy, rigid build timelines and hefty price tags, delaying life-changing science. To bypass these bottlenecks, NOVA Genomics and MotilityCount ApS worked with Harbor to launch a 1,600-patient study in just nine days.
Albert Cai
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
Traditional Electronic Data Capture (EDC) systems suffer from months-long manual builds because their outdated, passive architectures rely on tedious human configuration rather than AI automation. To solve this, Harbor EDC was designed with an AI-first approach, eliminating disjointed, error-prone workflows and empowering clinical teams to drastically accelerate their study startup times.
Albert Cai
Sunday, November 9th, 2025
Five months ago, we started Harbor Labs to modernize the data management process in clinical studies and claw back the $25 billion wasted every year on tedious, manual processes like source data verification. Today, we're excited to announce a partnership with Solaris Research Institute, a leader in clinical studies in pain and spine intervention.
Albert Cai
Monday, October 13th, 2025
At Harbor, we use a combination of old and new technologies to reduce clinical trial data entry burden by 90%. Most importantly, we do this without changing workflows or sacrificing compliance. The result is faster, more accurate data entry, reduced monitoring costs, and more time for sites to focus on taking care of their subjects.
Albert Cai
Friday, September 19th, 2025
With traditional electronic data capture (EDC) vendors, a validation cycle means waiting months for new features, and hoping nothing slipped through the cracks. With Harbor, every release is validated to meet regulatory standards automatically. That means you get faster product improvements, and when auditors show up, you already have a full validation package ready to go.
Albert Cai
From Engineering
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Monday, May 18th, 2026
Software subject to 21 CFR Part 11 requirements cannot afford best-effort audit logging: missing even a few records is a compliance failure. We needed audit trails that triggered automatically on every write to Postgres and carried rich business context. Here's how we built it in an ergonomic, maintainable, and secure way — using app-native TypeScript, without relying on baroque PL/pgSQL logic.
Nathan Leung
Friday, March 6th, 2026
When every clinical trial has a different data model, relational databases struggle with changes while NoSQL trades off safety for flexibility. Here's how Harbor uses a constrained EAV model in Postgres, taking advantage of relational guardrails and Zod-powered app-layer validation to support sparse, user-defined, constantly-evolving clinical data schemas — without compromising safety or integrity.
Nathan Leung
Monday, November 24th, 2025
We embrace functional programming patterns and principles throughout our full-stack TypeScript codebase, making ample use of libraries and tools like ts-pattern, Jotai, and Terraform to write declarative, composable, and type-safe code. That said, we don't use Effect-TS, and we don't have any plans to. Here's why.
Nathan Leung