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Reading Time: 4 minutesWelcome to the Clinical Minds “Innovator Insights Corner,” where we’ll be sharing fascinating stories, perspectives, and predictions from the guests of “From Dreamers to Disruptors,” a podcast by Medidata exploring life sciences innovation and the visionaries behind it all Innovators within life sciences are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to create revolutionary tools […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is not enough to simply identify the “silent quality killers” that threaten your clinical trial. Success hinges on your ability to detect them in their nascent stages. True trial governance requires a fundamental shift: moving beyond passive monitoring—where leadership simply watches dashboards and reports—to actively detecting subtle shifts and anomalous trends that serve as […]

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Reading Time: 32 minutesMost clinical operations leaders can name the moment a study started to slip, and it’s rarely dramatic. A protocol decision gets made in one room. A feasibility plan gets built in a spreadsheet somewhere else. A budget gets modeled in yet another tool. Then the startup and monitoring teams inherit all of it, along with […]

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Reading Time: 6 minutesPatient centricity and high-quality data are the foundations upon which modern clinical trials are built. Yet, the gap between protocol endpoints and execution of those goals expands into a chasm when study design does not account for the realities of trial participation. As that gap grows, so too does the direct impact on data quality […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBefore ME/CFS, my daughter Lottie’s life was full of the ordinary things that make being a teenager feel like being a teenager: school, plans, friends, and the freedom to imagine what might come next. Then, after an infection, her life changed. There was no single moment when everything disappeared. Instead, little by little, things she […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the high-stakes environment of clinical drug development, the most dangerous risks are rarely the ones that fail loudly. We are conditioned to fear the catastrophic, headline-grabbing failures—the sudden suspension of a trial due to a major safety event or a sudden regulatory hold. Yet, the reality of clinical operations is far more subtle. The […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to the Clinical Minds “Innovator Insights Corner,” where we’ll be sharing fascinating stories, perspectives, and predictions from the guests of “from Dreamers to Disruptors,” a podcast by Medidata exploring life sciences innovation and the visionaries behind it all. Cancer diagnoses and the treatments that follow are some of the hardest challenges that anyone can […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat Is the 6-Minute Walk Test? In clinical trials, the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is one of the most commonly used evaluations in respiratory and cardiovascular clinical trials. However, the current approach to administering the 6MWT increases the burden on both the site and the patient, introduces variability in the data, and fails to provide […]

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