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Syneos Health and Optum outline a joint model for trial planning, recruitment and site access, with no financial terms or timelines disclosed.

What sponsors and sites should know about the AstraZeneca-Oracle AI collaboration on trial recruitment, safety monitoring and data governance.

In this video interview, Rajneesh Patil, global head of AI, digital, and innovation in clinical development at Syneos Health, identifies three recurring failure modes in AI governance frameworks—and explains why responsible AI must be an ongoing operating discipline, not a one-time approval gate.

CRIO’s chief innovation officer, Mike Wenger touches on the two ways sites get AI adoption wrong.

CRIO’s Mike Wenger, speaker at this year's SCRS summit, maps how sites are actually deploying AI post-pilot stage.

In this video interview, Rajneesh Patil, global head of AI, digital, and innovation in clinical development at Syneos Health, explains why the real advantage of faster data isn’t speed—it’s shortening the distance between signals, human judgment, and the next best action.

In today’s ACT Brief, we examine how AI is moving into continuous clinical operating models, how trust is built into oncology real-world evidence, and how the FDA approved a self-administered option for thyroid eye disease.

Paradigm’s Kurt Mussina discusses why scale should drive operational efficiency, not consolidation into single-site studies.

Paradigm’s Kurt Mussina touches on why he rejects the “site management organization” model in favor of one unified business.

ProofPilot’s Lauren Briggs touches on why site tech adoption hinges on the first 90 days after rollout, and why tools succeed only when they remove work from a site’s plate rather than adding another login to juggle.

Jennifer Byrne, CEO, Javara touches on why fixing clinical research requires sustained infrastructure investment and workforce development.

Sequoia’s Dan White and Dr. Tom Kreamer touch on why sponsors and CROs should treat a site network as one centralized partnerto speed startup timelines and strengthen execution.

Sequoia Clinical Research’s CEO Dan White and CMO, Dr. Tom Kreamer explain what it takes to merge three site organizations into one network.