A range of technological advances has transformed the clinical trial process.
A range of technological advances has transformed the clinical trial process. Clinical trials used to be a very manual process, with trial participants going to a clinic in-person to receive treatment and recording their symptoms and side effects on paper. In addition, drugmakers typically needed to recruit a large number of participants in order to get the right sample size—or they needed to invest heavily in marketing resources to recruit the right patients to treat a rare condition.