What's the Point? Can Point of Care Devices Enhance Clinical Trials?

Track:
Processes and Technologies for Clinical Research

Day & Time:
June 27, 10:45AM - 12:15PM

Session Number:
424

Room Number:
253A

Level:
Intermediate

Type:
Session

Title:
What's the Point? Can Point of Care Devices Enhance Clinical Trials?

Chair(s):
Erin Iturriaga, RN
Clinical Trials Specialist
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), United States

Description:
The session will discuss how point of care (POC) devices for clinical application may enhance the clinical trial enterprise. Clinical trials serve as a venue for testing and validating emerging or existing POC devices for successful application and commercialization of these technologies.

Learning Objective(s):
Define point of care (POC) technology; Discuss how POC devices enhance clinical trials; Identify barriers and solutions to POC technology in the clinical trial setting.

Presentation(s) & Speaker(s):
Impact of Home-based PRO on Clinical Trial Database Architecture
Sukhwant Khanuja, PhD
President and CEO
Carematix / Blipcare Inc, United States

Point of Care Technology on Clinical Cardiovascular Trials
Anu Rao, MD
Medical Officer, Division of Cardiovascular Services
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), United States

Point of Care Technology Adoption: A Researcher Turned Patient's Point of View
Sue Dubman, MA
Senior Director, Global Biomedical Informatics
Sanofi, United States