Decentralized Clinical Trials: You Don't Have To Do Everything, You Just Have To Start.

By Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Ph.D.

Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) are transforming medical research, bringing powerful benefits to study teams and patients alike. DCTs rely on user-friendly technologies, like smartphones, tablets and wearables, to enable patients to participate in clinical trials from the comfort of their own homes, rather than traveling to study sites. With advantages like faster and more targeted patient enrollment, better patient diversity, stronger patient engagement and retention, improved clinical safety, cleaner data and tremendous cost savings, it’s no wonder that there is excitement about this important innovation.