Modernizing Clinical Trials: Digital Technologies and the Cloud
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Published by FiercePharma
"demonstrated that we could successfully suppor t
large-scale medical studies with our AWS solution."
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Adoption of mobile devices and accompanying cloud-
based systems will improve the management and
monitoring of trials. Devices can securely stream data
to cloud environments, equipping sponsors to rapidly
glean new insights into the safet y and ef ficacy of
their drugs. Mobile devices can also enable remote
communication, reducing the need for patients to visit
study sites and decreasing both the cost of clinical
trials and the burdens they place on par ticipants.
THE FOUNDATION OF A NEW
ERA FOR CLINICAL TRIALS
Cloud-powered initiatives at Bristol-Myers Squibb,
uMotif, Medidata and other companies are modernizing
clinical trials, resulting in s tudies that are fas ter,
cheaper and less burdensome for patient s. Their
utilization of the cloud will upend the traditional
clinical trial model and streamline patient enrollment,
patient engagement and data collation.
8 Hellman, B. uMotif Case Study – Amazon Web Ser vices (AWS).
Amazon Web Services, Inc. Available at: https://aws.amazon.com/
solutions/case-studies/uMotif/. (Accessed: 11th December 2018)
"My prediction is that clinical trials in 10 years' time
will be hard for us to recognize. Increasingly they will
occur at patient homes or at their private doc tors.
Patients may potentially wear their sensor devices,
flash pictures of their lesions from their cell phones,
submit patient repor ted outcomes on their tablet
computers, perhaps even receive their study drugs
by drone," Leonard Sacks, M.D., of the FDA's Of fice
of Medical Policy, said in a presentation on electronic
technology in clinical trials.
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The coming era of vir tual and other wise technology-
enabled clinical trials will require highly-scalable,
secure and compliant ser vices to fulfil its potential.
Ever y time a patient submits data from home or a
healthcare professional provides remote reassurance
to a par ticipant, the cloud will be working in the
background. The cloud of fers the ability to utilize
powerful computation, as well as ever-evolving machine
learning intelligence, to continue to drive innovations
that will enable higher-quality data from clinical trials
and accelerated deliver y of drugs to market. l
9 Elec tronic Technology in Clinical Trials. Available at: ht tps://
w w w.fda.gov/downloads/drugs/newsevent s/ucm441299.pdf.
(Accessed: 11th December 2018)
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