

It is reported that ~30% of phase 3 study terminations are due to patient enrolment challenges. Increased patient retention: Personalised virtual care ensures better patient retention as availability of investigators and expert opinion is available whenever and wherever requiredĪccording to reports, patient recruitment is the single biggest factor for clinical delays, followed by significant patient fall-outs.Lowered care cost: Virtual clinical trials eliminate hospitalization charges, unnecessary appointment scheduling cost, and much more.In terms of costing, virtual visits eliminate the cost of missed appointments and potential re-admissions. Cost-effective: Virtual visits eliminate the patients’ travel and transportation expenses.
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This results in an effective clinical trial process with optimal results and no miscommunication. Better communication: Real-time collaboration and communication benefits both the CROs and the patients in transparent information sharing.

With this real-time data sharing, CROs can learn more about patient lifestyle and can implement a patient-centric approach.

It is also believed that virtual clinical trial solutions can significantly improve site staff recruitment, patient recruitment campaigns, safety monitoring, patient education, pre-screening, and data verifications. The growth is driven by the adoption of tele-health, the need for a diverse patient base, solutions for to overcome to overcome time and cost-consuming traditional clinical trial methods, among others.Ĭlinical trial research companies believe the use of patient-facing technology helps in widening the pool of trial participants/volunteers, extended patient retention, better data quality, and a holistic patient-centric experience. In terms of market size, the global virtual clinical trial market is estimated to reach US$13.78 bn by 2027, registering a CAGR% of 12.6% for the period 2020-2027 (Source: Polaris Market Research). These virtual trials are patient-centric, cost-effective, and easy to manage. to conduct safe and improved clinical trial research.

Undoubtedly, virtual clinical trials leverage the power of tele-health/digital technology by including virtual patient monitoring, wearable medical devices, remote SDV, etc. These solutions accommodate innumerable benefits of technology, advanced applications, electronic devices, online social engagement platforms, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, machine learning, among others. However, virtual clinical trials have the potential to drive significant digital alterations in clinical research methodologies to create an improved patient-centric ecosystem. This is a relatively new model of clinical trials in terms of adoption and is, therefore, the highly underutilized method of conducting clinical research. A virtual clinical trial (also known as remote or decentralized clinical trials) in the definition refers to digitally empowered clinical trial processes.
