Identifying The Barriers For Use Of Digital Clinical Trial Technologies

Q&A With Medable’s CEO Michelle Longmire

Digital clinical trials, a trend sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic that has held the biopharma industry’s interest, are changing the way patients interact with research and improving access, says Medable’s CEO.

Clinical Trials Are Increasingly Digitized And Decentralized • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration recently issued guidance on integrating data-gathering digital health technologies into clinical trials, with the impetus being that wearables, environmental sensors and software applications provide a more objective and efficient way to collect information than traditional data-gathering approaches. 

And as many pharma executives recently told In Vivo’s sister publication Scrip, they expect proliferation of digital and decentralized clinical trial components, not least

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