Although there is a long history of patients responding to advertisements on various media platforms to participate in clinical tests, Dorsett, founder and chief executive officer of ePatientFinder, believes there is a more efficient way. Dorsett and his colleagues at ePatientFinder have developed the Clinical Trial Exchange platform that allows physicians and clinical sites to leverage electronic health records (EHR) to generate patient referrals and populate trials faster and at a more cost efficient rate. The platform uses a three-tier filtering process that leverages both the patients’ EHR data and information on ongoing trials based on geography and specialty.
In an exclusive interview with BioSpace, Dorsett said potential trial volunteers feel more comfortable learning about trials that could benefit their treatments from trusted physicians rather than an ad on late-night television or on social media platforms.
“We want to be able to leverage the ocean of data that’s out there,” Dorsett said. “We’re client-centric, but we are also benefitting the patient as well. So far there hasn’t been a technology to facilitate this process.”
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