Facilitating Patient-Led Research: How Increased Data Access Can Increase Patient Enrollment And Engagement

By Faith Holmes, M.D., Medical Director; Michael Ibara, Pharm.D., Chief Data Officer; Michael Gibertini, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer

If identifying and including patients is one of the biggest hurdles of a clinical trial, how does access to 100 million patients sound?

Although it’s not the panacea for all patient recruitment challenges, having access to millions of patients offers an opportunity to provide study designers the ability to transform clinical trials. After all, ready access to such an enormous and diverse patient population should facilitate enrollment in an unprecedented way, while enhancing and supporting patient engagement like never before. This paper shares how a robust patient database is one critical key that impacts multiple facets of a trial, leading to more successful outcomes that put patients at the center of research.