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What was once an emergent market trend is now an established market need: decentralized clinical trial technology. Decentralized clinical trials, also known as virtual or hybrid trials, were already increasingly appealing, but as of late there has been a rapid acceleration in decentralized trial technology adoption.

Recent worldwide events have organization’s ability to secure its’ data and environment changed in 2020. And it didn’t matter if they were a small or very large company, the shift to a hybrid (and, in some cases, completely remote) workforce mixed with data increasingly being stored within the cloud and no longer inside the corporate network, created a recipe for a potential security disaster.

The rising complexity of clinical trials, combined with pressures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, have forced sites, sponsors, and clinical research organizations (CROs) to adopt remote and risk-based approaches for clinical trial execution to ensure the safety of trial participants, maintain compliance with good clinical practice, and minimize risks to trial integrity.

In 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic surfaced, the need for alternative approaches to clinical trial execution and data capture became a reality overnight. The concept of implementing components of decentralization within a clinical trial became one of ‘here and now,’ versus a concept of the future.

IT organizations are trying to keep their businesses running while migrating to modern, future-proof approaches. To understand cloud native application trends, ESG surveyed 387 IT professionals at organizations in the U.S. responsible for evaluating, purchasing, managing, and building application infrastructure.