Delve Health

Decentralized Clinical Trial Solution, bringing clinical trials to patient homes

08/20/2026

Are clinical trials generating truly better insights with more data, or just more noise? We're seeing increased complexity and data volume, but also advanced analysis capabilities and a growing 'why' behind data collection. The industry is improving, but complexity in trials is likely to continue, while analysis methods become simpler.

07/30/2026

Clinical trials are producing extraordinary science through surprisingly broken processes.

Spreadsheets. Email chains. Disconnected systems. Then we assume AI will fix everything.

Suzanne Vyvoda and I unpack what really happens behind the scenes—and one uncomfortable truth:

Outsourcing a clinical trial does not mean outsourcing responsibility.
Watch the full conversation below.

06/23/2026

The first week after enrollment predicts the rest of the trial.

Device paired. App working. First diary submitted. First question answered by a human.

Get those four right and you've built a patient who stays engaged. Miss them and you've started a slow drift you won't see for weeks.

A rushed onboarding looks fine on day one. The cost shows up later — as missing data and withdrawals nobody scheduled for.

Week one is the cheapest place to protect your endpoint. Most trials leave it to whoever has time.

Delve Health closes that window: device, app, diary, and patient support — confirmed in the days that set the tone.

06/09/2026

A dead battery can sink a primary endpoint.

Not the protocol. Not the platform. A charger that broke in week 3, a device that stopped syncing on day 4, a patient who didn't think it was worth a phone call.

The science is hard. The software is solved. The part that quietly breaks trials is the logistics — getting the right device to the right patient, keeping it working, and catching the failure before it becomes a hole in your data.

That's what concierge support and device logistics are for: real people and real operational follow-up that keep patients equipped and engaged between visits. Insurance for your endpoints, not another dashboard.

More data doesn't help if the device was dead when it mattered.

05/21/2026

Here's something that quietly derails wearable-enabled clinical trials: enrollment isn't adoption.

A device on a patient's wrist isn't the same as a device worn correctly, charged, and synced every day. And when patients drift, it doesn't show up in the enrollment numbers — it shows up later, in the endpoint data, as gaps you can't fix after the fact.

The technology is the easy part. Keeping patients using it correctly, week after week, is the real work — and it takes setup support, monitoring for non-wear, and follow-up the moment the data stops.

How does your team keep wearable data flowing once the novelty wears off?

More on how we approach this: https://www.delvehealth.com/wearable-compliance-clinical-trials.html

05/15/2026

Subject matter expertise is key when using AI tools like ChatGPT. If you understand the topic, you can identify errors. Power requires responsibility.
See full video here https://youtu.be/AFtsMb1_4VA

05/05/2026

It's not about the fancy tech; it's about empowering people. Think GPS for drivers—it guides, but doesn't replace skill. We can train good clinicians for new protocols, but not with scattered resources. Let's focus on enabling participation.

04/30/2026

Dropout rates and late trial starts cost the industry billions. The human element is key to engagement and retention, yet we often overlook what makes people comfortable. Standardized measurement in behavioral and survey science can turn subjective feedback into reliable data, proving ROI and serving patients better.

04/22/2026

omething worth sharing if you work in clinical research:
The industry has made serious progress on wearable technology in clinical trials. Devices are more capable than ever. Regulatory acceptance is growing — the FDA expanded its real-world evidence framework just last December.

But there's a gap that doesn't get talked about enough.

Collecting the data and using the data are two very different problems.

A wearable can generate thousands of data points per patient per day. If the analytics aren't protocol-aligned, if patients aren't supported through the full study duration, if sites don't have clean workflows around the device — that data doesn't do what you needed it to do.

The teams getting this right aren't just deploying better devices. They're building better ex*****on infrastructure around them.

That's the real differentiator in 2026.

04/21/2026

New full episode is live on Spotify.

Clinical trials have more technology, more tools, and more data than ever before.
So why are patient retention, trial compliance, and patient experience still such persistent problems?

In this episode, I sat down with Farah Ahmad, Co-Founder and CEO of PatientX and EVP of Business Development at Eversana, for a candid conversation about what the industry still gets wrong when it comes to the patient journey.

We talked about:
• patient retention in clinical trials
• patient engagement and patient voice
• trial compliance and operational gaps
• decentralized clinical trials and digital health
• clinical trial innovation and better trial design
• how sponsors, sites, and partners can work better together

One of the biggest takeaways for me: we keep trying to solve deeply human problems with disconnected systems, fragmented processes, and too little ownership around the actual participant experience.

If we want better data, better compliance, and better outcomes, we have to build trials that work better for the people inside them.
This conversation is for anyone working in clinical research, clinical operations, pharma, biotech, digital health, or patient-focused innovation.

Listen to the full episode on Spotify and let me know what you think the industry still misses most when it comes to retention.

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