Interactive Response Technology (IRT) can serve many different functions in clinical research, from patient randomisation to making data-driven calculations for patient dosing.
But, how can modern systems give sponsors the edge to develop drugs as quickly as possible and at a lower cost, two factors that are particularly advantageous when developing drugs and vaccines amidst a global pandemic?
IRT began as simple voice-response systems that allowed investigators to automate clinical trial data entry. Investigators used touchtone keypads to input clinical site data and typically received responses by fax.
As trial designers incorporated growing waves of biomedical advances to create increasingly complex and global studies, technology