Validic Survey Raises Hopes of Merging Big Data Into Clinical Trials

Validic has been integrating medical device data with electronic health records, patient portals, remote patient monitoring platforms, wellness challenges, and other health databases for years. On Monday, they highlighted a particularly crucial and interesting segment of their clientele by releasing a short report based on a survey of clinical researchers. And this report, although it doesn’t go into depth about how pharmaceutical companies and other researchers are using devices, reveals great promise in their use. It also opens up discussions of whether researchers could achieve even more by sharing this data. The survey broadly shows two trends toward the productive use of device data: Devices can report changes in a subject’s condition more quickly and accurately than conventional subject reports (which involve marking observations down by hand or coming into the researcher’s office). Of course, this practice raises questions about the device’s own accuracy. Researchers will probably splurge for professional or “clinical-grade” devices that are more reliable than consumer health wearables. Devices can keep the subject connected to the research for months or even years after the end of the clinical trial. This connection can turn up long-range side effects or other impacts from the treatment. Together these advances address two of the most vexing problems of clinical trials: their cost (and length) and their tendency to miss subtle...
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