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Looking Forward: Forum Activities in 2020
Pages 10-13

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From page 10...
... They offer new opportunities to address critical challenges or "pain points," better connect patients and health care providers, and incorporate patient input throughout the drug R&D lifecycle. In collaboration with the National Academies' Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health, the Forum will host a workshop on March 24, 2020, to discuss the challenges and opportunities in using digital health technologies to improve the probability of success in drug development.
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From page 11...
... Participants at the 2019 workshop on Sharing Clinical Trial Data: Challenges and a Way Forward.
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From page 12...
... These opportunities hold great promise for advancing our understanding of health maintenance and prevention, disease progression, and developing new therapies for patients. At the same time, the clinical research enterprise faces continued and mounting pressures, strained from all sides by rising costs, an evolving regulatory and economic landscape, increasing clinical trial complexity, difficulties in the recruitment and retention of research participants, and a clinical research workforce that is under tremendous stress.
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... Workshop discussions will focus broadly on how to better integrate community practice and clinical trials, improve patient engagement in clinical trials, align cultural and financial incentives, and support the clinical trials infrastructure. The workshop will provide a venue to discuss goals and key priorities for advancing a clinical trials enterprise that is more efficient, effective, patient-centered, and integrated into the health delivery system of 2030.
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