Saama is pleased to continue our Clinical Trial Excellence for Tomorrow and Beyond blog series, each installment of which will be authored by one of our six new Clinical Board of Advisor members. This week, Opinder Bawa, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of San Francisco and former UCSF Chief Technology Officer, discusses what technology developments and trends will be critical to the successful conduct of clinical trials in the 2020s and beyond.
The process of transformation, in any industry, typically takes 30 to 50 years to complete, and such will be for the Life Sciences. Each of these transformation periods are initiated by a catalyst. The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was the catalyst for the Life Sciences industry’s most recent period of transformation. As proven repeatedly over the last century, technology will remain steadfast as the nucleus of such industry transformations, including the revamp of our country’s healthcare system.