Decentralized Clinical Trial

Not-for-profit alliance advocates for life sciences collaboration

16-Nov-2023 By Liza Laws

The Pistoia Alliance is a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D. It has just announced its four new strategic priorities made up of global pharma and tech representatives to deliver new project...

Medical Research Network's Edward Triebell on the shifts and statistics in clinical research's digital trends

08-Nov-2023 By Liza Laws

Executive director of Medical Research Network's (MRN's) digital health, Edward Triebell, joined OSP for a Q&A where he shared some interesting shifts and statistics about digital trends in clinical research.

Curavit capturing health economics evidence with new HEOR practice

06-Nov-2023 By Liza Laws

With rising healthcare costs and ‘less understood digital therapeutics’ Curavit has launched a health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) practice.

Cumulus Neuroscience announces positive results from CNS-102 study for sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

17-Jul-2023 By Isabel Cameron

Cumulus Neuroscience, a global digital health company focused on advancing neuroscience clinical trials and patient care, presented interim data from their first-in-class CNS-102 feasibility study at the European Network to Cure ALS Annual Meeting (ENCALS)...

Improving patient experience doesn't come at cost of site burden Mural Health says

14-Jun-2023 By Liza Laws

Mural Health is on a mission to make it as easy as possible for people to take part in clinical trials, the company will be heading to DIA Global in Boston where they hope to glean a meaningful understanding of the current landscape and hot topics.

Women in Science: How Medable’s Pamela Tenaerts is democratizing clinical trials

31-May-2023 By Isabel Cameron

Pamela Tenaerts, chief scientific officer at Medable, is on a mission to democratize and diversify clinical trials.

Interview: Lessons learned during Covid and what the future holds for hybrid and decentralised trials

08-Mar-2023 By Liza Laws

When the pandemic broke, the whole world was thrown onto a steep learning curve. Everyone had to find new ways to adapt in their day to day lives as well as their working lives. There was no exception with clinical trials, with patients unable to attend...

Decentralized Trials

Greater digital biomarklers adoption in clinical studies as Koneksa and SSI Strategy collaborate

08-Mar-2023 By Ben Hargreaves

The two partners will pool capabilities to provide an expanded service to their clients, which will see Koneksa provide its digital biomarkers tools and SSI Strategy its expertise in drug development.

Syneos Health announces creation of DCT site network to 'realize meaningful momentum' for customers and partners

08-Mar-2023 By Ben Hargreaves

The company establishes a network across North America that will cover various therapeutic areas, including cardiology and oncology.

3H Medi and Thread partner to boost decentralized trials in Japan

28-Feb-2023 By Ben Hargreaves

The Japanese clinical trial company and the technology provider agree a collaboration deal, as Japan encourages the digitalization of clinical trials and the use of DCT approaches.

Aardex and Cambridge Cognition cooperate on decentralized trials

07-Feb-2023 By Ben Hargreaves

Aardex will provide adherence monitoring tools to Cambridge Cognition for use in hybrid and fully decentralized clinical trial services.

Sanofi picks Thread as sole provider of decentralized clinical trials for patient-focused platform

30-Jan-2023 By Nick Taylor

Thread is one of a number of companies that are trying to address persistent problems with clinical trials such as recruitment and retention through DCT platforms that loosen, and for some programs sever, the link between geographic proximity to study...

2022 in review: Senior execs weigh in on most significant trend(s) for 2023

22-Dec-2022

As the year draws to a close, Outsourcing-Pharma caught up with some senior executives for a three-part series looking back on an eventful 2022, and look ahead to 2023.

Medidata reveals patient app to support decentralized trials

13-Dec-2022 By Ben Hargreaves

The company states that the new app is able to cut study start-up times for sponsors and CROs, while it can also be used by patients across various different platforms.

Curebase adds voice analysis capabilities to clinical trials

08-Dec-2022 By Ben Hargreaves

Curebase partners with Redenlab to be able to provide voice and language tests to be used through its decentralized trial model.

Virtual CRO Curavit raises $5m to grow digital therapeutics clinical trial business

23-Nov-2022 By Nick Taylor

Virtual CRO Curavit Clinical Research has tapped investors for cash, securing $5 million in series A funds to support its targeting of the digital therapeutics space.

Survey reveals decentralized clinical trial elements that drive participation in studies

16-Nov-2022 By Nick Taylor

In-home nurse visits, using familiar mobile devices to upload health data, and telemedicine calls with a doctor are the elements of decentralized clinical trials with the biggest positive impact on participation in future studies, according to a survey.

Castor bolsters trial solutions platforms to reach more patients and gain RWE

15-Nov-2022 By Maggie Lynch

Castor adds to its existing decentralized and hybrid clinical trial solutions platform to collect RWE, expand trials to global populations, and integrate virtual trial visits.

Oracle and ObvioHealth come together for ‘tight integration’ of data in APAC DCTs

10-Nov-2022 By Maggie Lynch

Oracle and ObvioHealth collaborate on clinical trial solutions using ObviGo to establish a “more complete clinical research ecosystem” in Asia Pacific region.

Clario releases 20 years of data working on decentralized trials

10-Nov-2022 By Ben Hargreaves

The company reveals some of its data on the number of trials and patients that have been supported through its tools.

ACRO answers decentralized trial questions to ease worries and increase uptake

01-Nov-2022 By Nick Taylor

The Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO) has released a question and answer document to support the adoption of decentralized clinical trials (DCT).

ObvioHealth aims to ‘reduce friction’ in DCTs with engagement suite

27-Oct-2022 By Maggie Lynch

ObvioHealth has launched ObvioGo to reduce patient burden in decentralized clinical trials.

Big Pharma backs push to compare carbon footprint of site-based and decentralized trials

19-Oct-2022 By Nick Taylor

The Pistoia Alliance has begun an initiative to measure and compare the carbon footprint of site-based and decentralized clinical trials.

Curavit partners with 1nHealth for ‘digital first’ recruiting of DCT

18-Oct-2022 By Maggie Lynch

Digital enrollment for Lark Health’s Cardiovascular Disease DCT is sped up by using the “tapestry of the entire internet” through Curavit and 1nHealth.

Thermo Fisher launches decentralized clinical trial network

17-Oct-2022 By Ben Hargreaves

The company, through its subsidiary, PPD, announced that it had created a network that would provide learning materials to those investigators and research sites looking to use decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) for drug development.

Meru tasks DCT specialist Curebase with supporting digital depression therapy study

27-Sep-2022 By Nick Taylor

Meru Health has tasked decentralized clinical trial (DCT) specialist Curebase with supporting a study of its app-based treatment program for depression, burnout, and anxiety.