制药和医疗器械公司在临床试验中对数字健康技术的温和采用
Caroline Marra1, Ariel D Stern2,3
1Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
|February 3, 2024
概括
制药和医疗器械公司在临床试验中采用数字健康技术 (DHT) 的速度很慢,他们更喜欢旧的硬件而不是新工具. 增加监管清晰度和减少障碍可能会促进DHT用于以患者为中心的药物开发.
科学领域:
- 临床试验方法论 临床试验方法论
- 数字健康技术数字健康技术
- 制药和医疗器械开发的发展.
背景情况:
- 数字健康技术 (DHT) 提供以患者为中心的好处,包括改进数据收集和分散的试验设计.
- 越来越多的证据表明,DHT在临床试验中的使用普遍增加.
- 在支持医疗产品开发的试验中,DHTs的具体采用率仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 量化DHT在医药和医疗器械公司赞助的临床试验中的使用情况.
- 分析这些行业赞助商随着时间的推移采用DHT的趋势.
- 为了比较行业赞助商和非行业赞助商使用的DHT类型.
主要方法:
- 在临床试验中对DHT使用的定量分析.
- 专注于由制药和医疗器械公司赞助的试验.
- 技术类型的比较 (例如,基于硬件的与在线工具) 和采用趋势.
主要成果:
- 行业赞助的试验显示,尽管表达了兴趣,但DHTs的吸收缓慢.
- 赞助商主要使用既有硬件 (例如,霍尔特监视器,血糖计),而不是像移动应用程序这样的新技术.
- 这与非行业赞助商形成鲜明对比,这些赞助商更频繁地使用新的,基于在线的DHT.
结论:
- 对于将DHT纳入产品开发和监管审查的关键临床试验存在犹.
- 对于将DHT和以患者为中心的终点纳入监管试验的机会仍然很大.
- 提高监管清晰度和减少运营障碍可能是加速在该行业采用DHT所必需的.
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