Indian CRO Kreara Solutions Pvt Ltd. Joins DATATRAK CRO Connect Program

CLEVELAND, March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DATATRAK International, Inc. (OTCQX: DATA), a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today announced that Kreara Solutions Pvt Ltd. has become the latest Contract Research Organization (CRO) to join the global list of DATATRAK CRO Connect partners. Through the adoption of DATATRAK ONE™, Kreara will be able to deliver superior client service while managing its supported studies through the versatile DATATRAK eClinical™ platform. Interestingly, Kreara is also collaborating with PFC Pharma Focus, a CRO with corporate offices in Europe and Israel, which joined the DATATRAK CRO Connect Program in November 2009.

"We have been on the lookout for a cost effective and quality solution to provide EDC solutions to our clinical data management customers for quite some time," said Anoop P Ambika, Chairman and Managing Director of Kreara Solutions. "While we evaluated several products that are currently being offered by the market, we found the right mix of cost, quality and professional support with DATATRAK. We are pleased to be listed as one of the very few providers from India who has entered the CRO connect program. We are also quite confident that we will be able to deliver value to our customers through this new partnership."

"We are pleased to see our network of CRO Connect Partners extend into India," said Laurence Birch, DATATRAK's Chairman of the Board. "With almost a half-dozen studies already underway in India, we expect to see a tremendous amount of growth for DATATRAK eClinical™ in the Indian market over the next several years. I would like to welcome Kreara to the family of DATATRAK CRO Connect Partners, and we look forward to working with Kreara in future".

About Kreara.

Kreara was established in India in April 2004 as a private limited company with the intention of providing quality data management and bio-statistical services for the clinical research and life sciences industry. Ever since our inception we have grown into one of the most trusted partner for pharmaceutical companies across the globe. The company employs a good mix of statisticians, software engineers and clinical data managers and specializes in Clinical Data Management, Biostatistics, SAS programming, Medical coding, safety and efficacy analysis, medical writing and CDISC migration. In the course of our existence over the past five years, we have worked with clients from Europe, USA and Japan. We have also developed a state of the art training program that provides us with industry ready resources. At Kreara our primary job function is to create value for our customers. An integral part of our genetic structure is to create long-lasting customer partnerships and working with our customers to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success.  We have a successful track record of treating each of our customers from the life sciences industry with respect and providing them with three value additions; Cost Effectiveness, Quality and Timeliness.  For more information on Kreara, please visit http://www.kreara.com.

About DATATRAK International, Inc.

DATATRAK International, Inc. is a worldwide technology and services company focused on the provision of multi-component eClinical solutions and related services for the clinical trials industry. We operate under the vision of DATATRAK ONE™, which encompasses our unique, single platform technology. The singular architecture of our DATATRAK eClinical™ product suite has been embraced by clients around the globe for its ability to effectively manage clinical trials through a unified multi-component, comprehensive solution. The Company delivers a complete portfolio of software products that were created in order to accelerate clinical research data from investigative sites to clinical trial sponsors and ultimately the FDA, faster and more efficiently than manual methods or loosely integrated technologies. DATATRAK's eClinical™ software suite can be deployed worldwide through an ASP offering or in a licensed Enterprise Transfer model that fully empowers its clients. The DATATRAK software suite and its earlier versions have successfully supported hundreds of international clinical trials involving thousands of clinical research sites and encompassing tens of thousands of patients in 59 countries. DATATRAK International, Inc.'s product suite has been utilized in some aspect of the clinical development of 16 drugs and one medical device that have received regulatory approval from either the United States Food and Drug Administration or counterpart European bodies. DATATRAK International, Inc. has offices located in Cleveland, Ohio, and Bryan, Texas. Visit the DATATRAK International, Inc. web site at www.datatrak.net.

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