Study Incentives Drawing the Wrong Crowd?

How to incentivize study participation while avoiding fraud. It's a Catch-22. Research studies often pay participants for their time and involvement, but that payment can be a magnet, attracting people who don't actually qualify. Without the proper controls in place,...

Academic Medical Centers: The Increasing Importance of Translational Research

The phrase “translational research” often refers to pharmaceutical companies moving from basic clinical research into drug development. Sometimes pharma companies do this research themselves, and sometimes they license compounds from Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), with technology transfer deals bringing revenue...

Post-Covid Digital Health Research Trends

Rarely has the world been forced to remake itself in quite the same way as what the Covid-19 pandemic has done. For more than a year now, every sphere of our modern life has had to compromise in ways that...

Remote Research in the Era of COVID-19

To minimize opportunities for spreading the novel coronavirus, the FDA and NIH have suspended in-person interactions in research studies and clinical trials. The new rules mean that most clinical and behavioral research studies may no longer be conducted in person...

When Digital Health Research Meets the Real World

You just finished presenting the results of your research project at the annual conference for your field. Your novel digital health intervention demonstrated a meaningful and robust impact on outcomes. This is a big moment; you’ve worked hard to get...