Rick Greenfield is the CEO and founder of RealTime Software Solutions, a leading Clinical Trial Management Systems provider. Rick also co-owned and managed one of the largest multi-specialty research sites in the US for nearly thirteen years where RealTime-CTMS was first created and implemented to streamline site operations for all staff and processes. RealTime, today, is bringing even more advancements to sites and sponsors that include eCONSENT, a Global Patient Portal to support fully or hybrid decentralized clinical trials and much more.  In this episode we discuss the historical undervaluing of research sites, site’s role in decentralized clinical trials, and future of system interconnectivity and much more.