France Consults On Best Practice Guidelines For Decentralized Trials

The CNIL plans to update its data protection methodologies based mostly on the results of a new consultation and the outcome of a pilot in which companies are asked to identify the challenges they have faced when designing trials with decentralized elements.

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The French data protection agency, the CNIL, has produced three guidelines on the handling of data in decentralized clinical trials in a move to bring its good practices and recommendations into line with EU regulations and advances in health research and technology.

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