Keeping Up with Clinical Research Technologies

The goal of this issue is to help readers keep pace with technological trends happening in the research enterprise. While it can be exciting to see how technology makes positive impacts professionally, in the clinical research line of work we also need to think about how technologies are regulated and how they can affect human subjects protections. Technologies may solve old problems, but the reality is that they create new ones, too, for example as paper case report forms (CRFs) turn into electronic CRFs (eCRFs) and, because of eCRFs, onsite monitoring segues into remote, risk-based monitoring.