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There are currently nearly 40,000 clinical trials run annually around the world.
They provide an immensely important role in both validating new pharmaceutical compounds
and providing comparative efficacy data for national and supranational health organisations.
Working with one of the world's leading Baltimore-based hospital and clinical research
centers we have developed a technology strategy for significantly lowering the cost
of providing clinical trials.
Using a cloud-based service, clinical trials can be set up and managed at will in
a few hours rather than weeks.
The approach requires clinicians and investigators to register online with their
interests, skills, expertise and available cohort. Patients and participants can
also register online (as they do at present with various organizations).
The clinical trials coordinator can set up a putative trial which establishes links
with all aspects of the professionals likely to be involved in the trial. The trial
is modeled online and then goes for approval. If approved the whole trials project
is moved to a locked down server.
Patients are recruited and data collected under controlled and fully reported in
a 21CFR11 environment.
Data is collected via cloud-enabled connections. All types of DICOM and proprietary
clinical images are collected, and may be analyzed at the point of collection; by
contracted (online) reading centers; or by authorized, approved and accredited remote
readers.
The project manager is able to share, integrate and control the project via web
tools.
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