pharmaphorum February 10, 2023
The use of digital health technologies (DHT) like connected and wearable sensors to improve data collection in clinical trials in neurology is growing at a phenomenal rate, says a new study.
The number of trials using DHTs rose on average by around 39% a year between 2010 and 2020, with a modest fallback in 2021 as the pandemic hit, with growth evident across international, observational, and registry studies, according to a just-published paper in Nature’s npj Digital Medicine journal.
The researchers behind the work, from the University of Potsdam and University Hospital Düsseldorf in Germany and Harvard Medical School in the US, said that DHT is being deployed to try to make neurology research more patient-centred, and move clinical trials...