The clinical research enterprise is “at best the sickliest link” in the chain between patients, the healthcare system, and science that can and should bring cures and better therapies, according to Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). …

No one can dispute the impact of technology on clinical research. eConsent interactively educates study participants on the study risks, benefits and responsibilities of trial participation, while clinical researchers have had to discard archaic means of data collection that imposed parameters on time and convenience, in lieu of electronic-based systems that truly engage and enlighten the modern study patient. …