Smartphones Can Improve Clinical Trials

Smartphones offer us incredible new opportunities for implementing efficient clinical research trials. They allow researchers to simplify complexities that have traditionally surrounded clinical research with tools that are now easily accessible to both practitioners and patients. Smartphones can be used to gather critical information from an enrolled patient including factors such as weight, blood pressure, glucose levels, and more. Not only can smartphones be used to automate and speed up information entry, they offer ways to improve the methodology and accuracy of research.

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