Clinical trials need help from technology to speed new drugs to market paid Oracle
Wristwatches that can monitor your heartbeat—and also detect a fall. Skin sensors that measure UV ray exposure. Implants that allow people with diabetes to continuously monitor their glucose levels. The wearable devices that today help people track key health signals are moving to the clinical trial arena, disrupting a centuries-old system for collecting the data needed to make the life-and-death decisions about what drugs get approved for patient use.
Given the huge stakes for any potential new drug, Vandebelt understands why people are wary of making changes, such as changing how data is collected for a clinical trial. People trust their most personal information to the apps on their phones, so there may be ways to tap this always-on connection for gathering data for clinical trial applications, allowing a vast expansion of the trial population, in size and geographic distribution if people without easy access to a certain research center could join a trial.
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