Empowered Patient Podcast Creating Robust Digital Tools to Extend Participation in Clinical Trials with Alicia Staley Medidata
Alicia Staley is the VP of Patient Engagement at Medidata and working to bring more technology and software solutions to clinical research. With a focus on creating patient-centric clinical trials, Alicia emphasizes the value of digital tools to drive diversity of participation and retention. As a cancer survivor and patient advocate, Alicia has deep insights into how clinical trials are run and who participates.
Alicia explains, "I think the entire industry is still responding to what life looks like post-COVID. However, in particular, in clinical research, this gravitation toward more digital tools to support clinical research is still very much at the forefront. Topics like decentralized clinical trials and patient portals, patient registries, and ways to support the patient through the clinical journey using digital tools, sensors, and wearables are very much at the forefront of the conversations we're having today. Clearly there is an interest in going in that direction. And I think we learned during the pandemic that these tools are great resources for expanding the potential participation in clinical research to essentially a broader audience of participants."
"It took the pandemic for the industry to realize that these tools are valuable resources. I think there had been historically quite a bit of hesitancy to embrace technical solutions like eConsent, eCOA, ePRO, or any of the eSource tools. And I think the pandemic made us realize that these tools are here, they're here to stay, and they work very, very well. But our hand was never forced in the way it was during the pandemic."
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