6 Data Linkage Use Cases to Future-Proof Your Clinical Trial

Clinical trials remain the gold standard for regulatory decision making in medicine. However, patients who participate in clinical trials continue generating a wealth of real-world data (RWD) in their interactions with the larger healthcare ecosystem before, during, and after a trial. Trial patients’ RWD, such as medical claims, electronic medical records (EMR), registry data, and wearable device data, that are routinely collected in the background can supplement active collection of clinical trial data (CTD) and provide a substantially deeper insight on benefits, risks, and cost of treatments