|Articles|December 6, 2018

Technology That Touches the Patient

What used to be segregated approaches in clinical trials-ePRO, telemedicine, mobile health, devices and wearables-now gather under the umbrella of technologies that touch the patient. And those technologies can have positive implications for costs efficiencies in clinical trials, streamlined data collection, as well as on patient compliance and retention.

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