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This week in transparency news: February 23 – March 1, 2019

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Transparency in clinical trials is continually changing, and to stay on top of the news, TrialAssure brings a weekly round-up of some of the key stories surrounding disclosures in clinical trials. This week’s stories are as follows:

UK government promises national strategy to boost clinical trial reporting –TranspariMED

By the end of 2019, the UK government will publish a national clinical trial transparency strategy. Norman Lemp, MP, chair of parliament’s Science and Technology Committee, urged the government to fund and monitor clinical trial reporting after a TranspariMED and UAEM report exposed widespread failure by UK universities to post trial results.

Read the article via TranspariMED

Groundbreaking transparency application that anonymizes patient data in clinical trials launched – Clinical Leader

TrialAssure announced recently the limited release of ANONYMIZE DS, an all-new software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that allows sponsors to anonymize clinical trial data automatically. This exclusive application was discussed during a presentation by Zach Weingarden at the PhUSE Connect 2019 Data-Driven Science conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

Read the press release on Clinical Leader

Could blockchain ensure integrity of clinical trial data? – UCSF News Center

UC San Francisco researchers have created a proof-of-concept method for ensuring clinical trial data integrity with blockchain. Their research, which highlights an immutable audit trail, was recently published in Nature Communications.

Laura Kurtzman has the full story

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