e-Consent Market Overview
Approximately 66 percent of the top 50 pharma are engaged in or are planning to adopt an Electronic Informed Consent Form (e-ICF) or e-Consent initiative in the near future with most of the top 10 pharma already having an e-Consent strategy in place. In 3 years from now, e-Consent is expected to be used in more than 75 percent of clinical trials, with 94-96 percent of patients already preferring e-Consent. The flexible device approach is predicted to have the highest rate of adoption of 65 percent in 3-5 years, followed by a 60 percent adoption rate of mutual recognition training. ..
The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the e-Consent market, the factors affecting the market, and methods to improve e-Consent adoption by Pharma. The report examines current and future trends in the e-Consent market, along with a SWOT analysis. The report identifies the industry best practices and benchmarks on service offerings, with relevant case studies. Opportunities for different stakeholders are evaluated in the report, and the regulatory landscape in the U.S. and EU applicable to e-Consent are discussed. The report also includes a detailed supplier analysis with supplier landscape and relevant selection criteria and analysis of major collaborations by suppliers.
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e-Consent Market Trends
Category Intelligence on e-Consent covers the following
- Information relating to market, supply, cost, and pricing analysis
- Hard to find data on cost and TCO models, supplier details, and performance benchmarks
- Macroeconomic and regional trends impacting cost, supply, and other market dynamics
- Category-specific negotiation and sourcing advice
Industry Outlook & Drivers
Global Market Outlook on e-Consent
Although historically there has been challenges in adopting to e-Consent platform, currently there is shift in the industry. Most of the top 10 Pharma have incorporated in almost 60 percent of their trials. Buyers who were adopting at a rate of 10-11 percent last year are turning to a higher percent of adoption, close to 21-23 percent now.
Suppliers are collaborating with technology providers and amongst themselves to promote site and patient acceptance to e-Consent. Existing and new suppliers are broadening their scope of their service to align themselves to the industry shift and demand.
- 66% of top 50 pharma are engaged or are planning to adopt to an e-Consent initiative in the near future. Most of the top 10 pharma already have an e-Consent strategy in place.
- It is expected that, there will be a big difference when it comes to the shift in technology in the next 12 months. However, three years from now, more than 50% of the clinical trials will be adapting to e-Consent
- Users feel the major value derived out of design and development functionalities is the use of smart devices followed by the easy content creation. This is mainly because the ability of developing a solution without vendor involvement has always been an area of worry for the stakeholders
- Virtual care is increasingly becoming a common area of interest, as it opens a world full of possibilities for exchange of patient information.It also helps provide timely entry of any e-Informed Consent data and also for collecting subject's consent from remote locations
Factors Impacting the Market
- Several barriers that constrain the shift to an e-ICF mode from paper can be managed effectively, by understanding the adoption hurdles and by anticipating how the market is growing in future.
- With the advent of virtual trials and BYOD in clinical trials, remote consent is emerging as an important topic. Patients want to use information in the comfort zone, taking the time to think and discuss with their family.
