Scrip Asks…What Does 2022 Hold For Biopharma? Part 5: Clinical Trials

Decentralization, Diversity And Data Analytics Are Drivers Of Change

The COVID-19 pandemic drove huge shifts in clinical trial practice and the transformation is expected to continue even after the global health emergency abates. Industry leaders sharing their predictions around clinical development homed in on decentralized trials, digitization and data tools as key topics for 2022.

Scrip Asks, Part 5
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Evolution of clinical trials was a major theme among executives who at the end of 2021 shared their predictions for 2022. Remote, or decentralized, trials was a common talking point, as was the harnessing of technological advances in capturing and analyzing data.

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