On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration informed Congress it will end the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies May 11— signaling an end to the pandemic's crisis era and an unwinding of federal flexibilities that reshaped the nation's healthcare system.
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Posted 2/1/2023
Decentralized clinical trial approaches, including remote consent, telehealth, local laboratory and imaging services, and more, can help reduce some of the many barriers that prevent eligible patients from participating in trials. But as the participants in ACCC’s Advancing Decentralized Clinical Trials in the Community Setting Roundtable Series emphasized, implementing DCT elements is not simply a matter of adopting new technology. Doing so successfully requires thoughtful workflows and oversight structures that consider equity, scalability, and sustainability.
