CVS Health Enters the Clinical Trial Space

Researchers are increasingly eyeing pharmacies as recruitment sites for clinical trials due to their proximity to a wide range of patients. To capitalize on this growing opportunity, CVS Health will begin to host clinical trial recruitment at its numerous sites across the US. In a new article on Applied Clinical Trials, Moe Alsumidaie sits down with Jill Pellegrino, VP of recruitment and real-world evidence (RWE) at CVS Health Clinical Trial Services to talk about the move.

According to Pellegrino, “CVS Health has been involved in clinical trials for many years. We formally started Clinical Trial Services after CVS Health collaborated with the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate clinical trials for investigational COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. During that time, we engaged more than 300,000 volunteers and helped connect them to local studies. From that initial success, it was clear that there was an unmet need in clinical trial access that CVS Health could uniquely address. That’s really where the concept for the business was born. Since then, we’ve done much work outside COVID-19, including trials with over 20 sponsors across ten therapeutic areas.”

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(Source: Applied Clinical Trials, October 24^th, 2022)