Decentralized Trial Technology Insights
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Forget More Clinical Tech, We Need More Adoption
2/23/2026
At SCOPE Summit, Craig Lipset shared a blunt assessment of clinical trial innovation: the tools exist, regulators are engaged, and digital approaches offer clear quality advantages — yet adoption remains the industry’s biggest hurdle. From evolving FDA inspection expectations to the normalization (and lingering misconceptions) of decentralized trials, Lipset argues progress will depend less on new technology and more on scaling what already works.
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How Salk And Sabin Helped Create The Modern Clinical Trial
2/17/2026
How Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin pioneered double-blind methodology, HeLa cell assays, and IBM data processing – innovations that became the global standard for clinical trials.
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Digital Tools Are Failing Patients: 3 Ways Clinical Supply Can Protect Data Integrity
1/16/2026
Getting drugs and devices to the doorstep is only half the battle. When digital connections fail, trials fail. Why the digital last mile needs clinical supply ownership, human-centered design, and tech support with a bedside manner.
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From Supercomputers To The Cloud: How Pharma's R&D Infrastructure Transformation Impacts Clinical Trials
12/3/2025
Discover how pharma R&D is moving from traditional compute clusters to AI-driven HPC ecosystems and hybrid architectures that combine on-premise supercomputing with elastic cloud infrastructure.
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Penetration Testing In Healthcare: Common Vulnerabilities And Programs To Address Them
10/28/2025
Explore some of the common pitfalls witnessed in healthcare environments, as well as guidance for implementing a penetration testing program.
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Penetration Testing In Healthcare: HIPAA And GDPR Requirements
10/27/2025
Learn about penetration testing requirements in the healthcare environment, including clinical research, according to HIPAA and GDPR.
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RFK Jr. Wants Every American Wearing A Wearable. How Can Pharma Build A Business Around It?
9/16/2025
The timing is now for pharma to be all-in on using wearables as their new business strategy, says Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) Director of Partnerships Smit Patel, PharmD.
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Ask An Expert Before Shredding Your Mobile Device CAPEX
8/14/2025
Tasked with buying your company's mobile devices and not sure where to start? Discover the questions you should ask and the information you need to know before consulting an expert.
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Can Digital Endpoints Really Accelerate Clinical Trials?
8/8/2025
Digital biomarkers are quickly and quietly becoming the digital revolution needed to make clinical trials quicker and more data rich. Discover how they are being used in clinical trials right now.
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Tufts & PACT Release New DCT Analysis
7/7/2025
We take a closer look at some of the key stats in a new DCT report from the Partnership for Advancing Clinical Trials (PACT), a consortium hosted and facilitated by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD).