Clinical trials
Clinical trial sponsors must ensure that the processing of personal data from patients and healthcare personnel is compliant with data protection regulations. This includes obtaining informed consent from patients, implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data, and ensuring that data is processed only for the purposes for which it was collected. Data protection and data privacy can be complex to comply with, as many regulations may apply depending where the patients are enrolled and where the data are transferred.
Many regulations such as the GDPR, UK GDPR, Swiss FADP or HIPAA command that clinical trials sponsors comply with the privacy requirements under penalty of fine.