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Our Challenge
With recent advances in the science of therapeutic discovery (e.g., genomics, proteomics, stem cell research and digital chemistry), the number of therapies available for maximizing the quality of life for humankind is exploding. Your ability to deliver the best care at the lowest cost will be directly related to how you're your healthcare organization can support a wide range of new and emerging therapies. The key issues that make this transition difficult are:
In parallel with the increasing complexity and volume of research, the patient population continues to become more diverse. Developing a systematic and objective method for selecting patients for novel new therapies will need to become an important part of your discipline. Not only will such a method need to consider prioritizing new therapies for a particular indication for any given patient, but it will need to support the reality of having each patient enrolled in multiple concurrent studies (e.g., including observational). With regard to the quality measurement of novel new therapies, collecting patient enrollment information at the point-of-care in a timely and HIPAA-compliant manner will be extremely challenging given already tight budgetary guidelines. Currently, in a typical day, a research coordinator has to interact with several disparate systems representing a variety of point solutions provided by both internal and external research sponsors. The current state processes for data collection are limiting the efficiency of the coordinator (e.g., requiring double data entry), and adding additional burden for patients, especially if they are enrolled in multiple concurrent studies.
Integrating Research with Care Delivery
Our goal is to enable you to deliver high quality "standard" care, while seamlessly empowering your organization to offer your patients the option to participate in promising new therapies. Our standards-based, enterprise-level storage, workflow and security components provide an infrastructure that can support rapidly expanding research paths, while maintaining a strict policy on information access for HIPAA-compliance. Our system runs parallel to your care delivery systems and our patent-pending, HL7-based interface infrastructure allows your research staff to stay synchronized with your care delivery in real-time. This link keeps your staff focused on delivering the best possible care, while maintaining data integrity by avoiding duplicate data entry.
Access to our systems can be done through any secure (HTTPS) browser session, including those found on popular wireless devices. Our easy-to-use web interface keeps training short, while our identity management system allows you to control data access on a site, study, workflow step, form-level and field-level basis.
Unify and Automate Your Enrollment Process Across Your Sponsors
We believe that clinicians, investigators and coordinators should focus on therapeutic delivery and patient care, not on manually combing large archives of patient files, memorizing the growing number of complex therapeutic protocols and keeping track of all the screening steps for each patient within an environment often supporting site-specific HIPAA governance procedures.
Accélère Recruit™ provides the first commercial solution to use real-time health care information to perform patient recruitment and fact-based population forecasting in a HIPAA-compliant manner. We provide you an infrastructure to unify, automate and manage the enrollment process for each of your studies across all of your sponsors. After our system is installed and configured for your site, adding a study can be done in as little as 2-4 weeks. Our real-time, data-driven workflow-based solution is surpassing traditional clinical research boundaries and not only increasing recruitment rates up to 10 times, but more importantly, enabling research on indications that are not possible with today's traditional methods.
Precision Real-Time Screening
We work with your investigators and your sponsors to transform their manual screening criteria into a set of screening scenarios--electronic representations that are loaded and run on your Accélère Recruit™ installation. These screening scenarios can be as general (i.e., used for an entire service) or narrow as required (i.e., used by a single protocol). Once running, the system finds patients for the given study based on continually mining a
dynamic flow of health care information in a HIPAA-compliant and secure manner. Patient medical record information is constantly gathered by our installation in real-time from a variety of health care systems, including registration, laboratory and pharmacy. Our system continuously scans these "live" patient records against the entire set of screening scenarios 24 hours per day, 365 days per year and pages the appropriate study coordinator or attending physician when a match is found.
More importantly, once the page is acknowledged, our system guides your staff through the recruitment steps required by the study (e.g., verification of inclusion/exclusion) and the site (e.g., local HIPAA-compliance procedures) to ensure the best chances of securing each potential subject for enrollment. Accélère Recruit™ can support a patient that participates in multiple, simultaneous studies (e.g., therapeutic and observational) and will help researchers manage all of the study-specific steps across their entire patient load with a unified, prioritized task list.
Accurate Recruitment Monitoring
Accélère Recruit™ allows you to monitor the recruitment progress of your clinical studies in real-time. We give you 100% transparency on the various recruitment metrics that our system gathers allowing you to decide which studies need more resources and which ones are not worth further investment. We can provide summary reports that indicate overall patient counts for each step of your screening process. You can also drill down and review progress by study, site, investigator and coordinator.
In addition, our system can be configured to generate sponsor or study-specific screening reports. We can also provide an interface to stream vital screening activity information to your billing system in order for you to recover research expenses from your sponsors.
Connect To Affiliated Sites
We are in the process of establishing our infrastructure at the center of internationally recognized medical research institutions in order to offer the volumes and diversity of subjects required for today's studies. If you work with a number of affiliated sites in your community, we can rapidly deploy our infrastructure in order to add them into your integrated care and research network.
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