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title: "New Report: 2017 Clinical Trial Innovations"
description: As technology continues to move at the speed of light, a balancing act has emerged for clinical research professionals seeking innovation.  Let’s take a closer look at how the industry is exploring both the opportunities and challenges while never losing sight of potential risks.
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# New Report: 2017 Clinical Trial Innovations

 By [Lizzie Evans](https://blog.advancedclinical.com/author/lizzie-evans) on December, 19 2017

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###### Lizzie Evans

It’s an exciting, yet challenging time. Technology innovations in the clinical research industry open up a world of data for researchers and the ability to collect it faster. It’s all good news—better accuracy, more data-driven decisions and improved treatment for patients. But there’s also a big challenge: how to minimize risk and at the same time efficiently operationalize new approaches.

To find out what clinical research professionals think, Advanced Clinical conducted a 2017 survey to learn about adoption—big data, wearables and other new technology.[![innovation report blog2-1.png](https://blog.advancedclinical.com/hs-fs/hubfs/innovation%20report%20blog2-1.png?width=640&name=innovation%20report%20blog2-1.png)](https://info.advancedclinical.com/2017-clinical-trial-innovation-report)

A new report, ***The Balancing Act: Innovation with Minimum Risk and Maximum Efficiency***, offers these discoveries and more:

- **High interest in big data but incorporation still premature**
- **Use of wearable technology—it’s here, more to come**
- **Most impactful innovation—cell-based immunotherapy**
- **The greatest threat to innovation—talent shortage**

Ready for a deeper dive and practical tips on how to prepare?

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