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Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerating Shift To Digitally-Enabled Innovation

 
• By David Ridley

Virtual trials could be the answer to limitations placed on innovation by the coronavirus pandemic and help companies formulate new health claims relevant to a new generation of consumers, argued IQVIA Consumer Health during a recent webinar. 

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An increasing reliance on digital technologies by consumers and regulators prompted by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic across the world could accelerate the shift towards digital health claim generation methods, according to IQVIA Consumer Health.

Virtual trials offered companies a way to manage the limitations placed on innovation by COVID-19 lockdown measures to prevent the...

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