The COVID-19 pandemic put clinical trials firmly in the spotlight. Powered by the urgent need to combat this global threat, clinical trials have been created and conducted at an astonishing rate. At the time of writing, over 9400 clinical trials had been submitted to the World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). Kevin Burges at Formedix explores more about expediting clinical with cloud-based metadata repository and study automation technologies.