Editorial Perspectives On Data Management & Analysis

1. What ClinOps Wants To Know About AI 2/13/2025

   Registrants for our recent Clinical Leader Live, “AI In Action: Transforming Clinical Trials,” were asked what they wanted to learn after watching the webinar. We thought it would be interesting to look at the five general themes to the types of questions they were asking.

2. Can Better Data Management Save Clinical Trials? 11/25/2024

   In this summary of our 10/31/24 Clinical Leader Live, we talk about the current ICH M11 guideline, which focuses on a clinical electronic harmonized protocol, as well as the need for data standardization and the benefits of the resulting automation. Our panelists include Jessica Jolly, a data science expert with 25 years of experience, and Hassan Kahlid, senior engineer, machine learning and data science at AstraZeneca.

3. AI Can't Help Bad ClinOps/Health Equity Data 9/25/2024

   Brian Johnson, Ph.D., VP, R&D Technology at Takeda discusses the huge opportunity of connecting disparate ClinOps data and leveraging generative AI to reduce costs and labor during the clinical process. 

4. Why We Need Technology Consolidation In Clinical Trials 8/16/2024

   As more and more trial designs incorporate technologies that generate an immense amount of data, data managers struggle to continuously interconnect disparate systems and standardize data. All of this fuels the need for technology consolidation.

5. Dear Data Analysts, AI Is Not Replacing You 4/2/2024

   Deep beneath the ongoing narrative of AI’s potential use cases in clinical trials is the same fear that persists in other industries facing a technology revolution. Will jobs be lost and replaced by machines? So, I thought I’d ask an expert — a machine.

6. It's Hard To Predict AI's Real Value To Clinical Trials 2/1/2024

   Sunny Kumar, a partner at GSR Ventures, plans to talk about AI and ML use in clinical trials during the SCOPE Summit panel, “The Future of Clinical Trial Tech: Perspectives from Different Investors.”

7. Can Data Help Improve Diversity In Clinical Trials? 12/7/2023

   Denise Bronner Ph.D., director of diversity, equity, and inclusion in clinical trials at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM) talks about some of the types of datasets that can be leveraged to improve diversity in clinical trials.

8. AI's Potential To Improve Clinical Operations, Trial Matching 8/11/2023

   Microsoft's Dr. Hoifung Poon explains how AI (specifically, large language models) can be used to improve patient care and clinical workflows by making it easier to match patients to trials.

9. How Blockchain Can Empower Patients And Improve Clinical Trials 8/4/2023

   Blockchain is far bigger than cryptocurrency. It's a data encryption technology that can not only strengthen existing clinical systems, but also (and most importantly) empower patients by giving them more control and ownership of their clinical data.

10. AstraZeneca Hopes To Advance Oncology RWE 12/6/2022

    AstraZeneca is an emerging leader in the chronic lymphocytic leukemia space. It now hopes to develop treatments so patients can avoid chemotherapy, with the hope those therapies will prolong survival in patients while also producing a better quality of life.