Why We Need Synthetic Data in Clinical Trials

Nuvanitic
5 min readMar 30, 2022
Dashboard showing Clinical Trials
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The benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in clinical trials are immense. We’re living in a global society where information can travel the globe quickly, and diseases are more common as we live longer; we need to roll out advances in medicine faster than ever.

AI and ML are two areas that can provide the speed and accuracy to get through many stages of clinical trials. They can do it safely and assess potential issues before any living thing ever gets involved in a clinical trial.

Follow along as we review what AI and ML can do for clinical trials and why the benefits are worth investing more resources into advancing the technologies and incorporating them into all clinical trials.

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