The Impact of Clinical Trials Is Both Immediate and Unmistakable

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Every year on May 20, the healthcare community comes together to celebrate Clinical Trials Day, which is a long-overdue recognition of the accomplishments made in medical research and the very real outcomes that affect patients’ lives. As a company whose mission is to bring clinical trials to anyone, anywhere, we add our sincere thanks to […]

It Will Take More Than Technology to Bridge Clinical Research and Consumer Healthcare

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Jodi Akin Founder + CEO, Hawthorne Effect Jodi is a healthcare executive, leader, innovator, advisor, and serial entrepreneur. She has more than 20 years of experience in clinical development, scientific and regulatory strategy, management, and medtech market development from start-ups to S&P 500 companies. Prior to founding Hawthorne Effect, Jodi was Global VP Clinical Affairs […]

Diversity in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials (and Why it Matters)

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Racial diversity in clinical trials is top of mind, and rightfully so – most everyone in clinical research agrees in principle that improving ethnic representation in trials will result in better research outcomes and help to address treatment inequities in healthcare overall. As an industry, demographic representation in trials is a moral – and increasingly […]

Looking Ahead in Clinical Research: Patients and Clinicians as Consumers

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Jodi Akin Founder + CEO, Hawthorne Effect Jodi is a healthcare executive, leader, innovator, advisor, and serial entrepreneur. She has more than 20 years of experience in clinical development, scientific and regulatory strategy, management, and medtech market development from start-ups to S&P 500 companies. Prior to founding Hawthorne Effect, Jodi was Global VP Clinical Affairs […]

Evolution or Revolution: Beyond Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT)

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Kate Flathers Head of Product, Hawthorne Effect Kate is responsible for technology and product strategy at Hawthorne Effect. Prior to joining Hawthorne, Kate spent 12 years launching products to improve clinical research. After starting that journey at Phase Forward (subsequently Oracle), she was most recently VP Head of Product at OM1, where she launched their […]