Benefits Of The Digital Front Door For Clinical Trial Stakeholders

By Ben Baumann, OpenClinica Co-Founder and COO

Patients, clinicians, and sponsors can benefit immensely from streamlining the process of accessing clinical trials. While much easier said than done, those running drug development studies have begun opening the digital front door to create a better user experience for all parties involved. By taking this initiative, many challenges felt throughout a clinical trial timeline, such as patient recruitment, retention, and clinician participation, as well as clinician burnout and burden, are being addressed.

The digital front door works to break down these barriers between healthcare and clinical research by leveraging pre-existing data sources, reducing the need for data cleaning and verification, and minimizing the need for patient travel. Unearth the ways that automated source data capture via EHR-EDC integration is helping sites to reduce cost, eliminate data errors, and more by accessing the full article.