What Can Tech Companies Teach Us About Clinical Trials?

Collaboration between tech companies and medical researchers may be the answer to modernizing clinical trials. 

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Tech companies can teach medical professionals a lot about the continuum of care in a clinical trial space, argued Peter Fitzgerald, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology and the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory at Stanford University.

“The folks that know more about continuum of care than anybody… that's the Amazons and the Walmarts of the world,”...

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