Newsletter | October 27, 2025

10.27.25 -- Maintaining Human Touch In AI-Assisted Patient Recruitment

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PATIENT CENTRICITY

Proximity To Patients Helps Unicycive Reduce Pill Burden

Unicycive CEO Shalabh Gupta, MD, shares how the company integrates patient feedback into the design of its trials, thus reducing pill burden.

Prioritizing Patient Voices

Patient-reported outcomes are redefining how rare oncology trials measure therapeutic impact. Explore how they offer insight into patient experience to improve engagement and guide research.

Accelerating Patient-Centric Trials With A Sponsor's Checklist

Effective trial success in today’s complex research environment requires early planning. This checklist will help you to strengthen planning, elevate patient engagement, and drive submission success.

Why Taxes Jeopardize Clinical Trial Access And How You Can Help

Learn the history behind the Harley Jacobsen Act (H.R. 7418), a bill introduced to Congress in 2024 that seeks to exempt all clinical trial payments from taxation.

Patient Centered Research: Challenges And The Role Of HEOR

Dive into the key challenges of integrating patient-relevant endpoints, the role of HEOR in risk-benefit assessments, and emerging measures to capture patient engagement in evidence generation.

PATIENT RECRUITMENT

Merck Maintains Human Touch In AI-Assisted Patient Recruitment And Education

SVP and Head of Global Clinical Trial Operations Jen Sheller shares how Merck’s “Zero Gravity” program and human-enabled AI are streamlining clinical research while honoring the human insights essential for trial success. 

How To Reduce Screen Fail Rates

Explore the causes of high screen fail rates, their impact on patient recruitment for clinical trials, and how they disproportionately impact underrepresented demographics.

Is Digital Recruitment For Clinical Trials Ethical By Design?

Clinical trial recruitment is increasingly digital. Learn about the ethical considerations and how transparency and trust lead to better outcomes.

Boosting Recruitment Strategy For Phase 3 Study In Ulcerative Colitis

Recruiting patients for ulcerative colitis clinical trials is known to be challenging. Due to several reasons, recruitment into the study was extremely difficult and time-consuming.

Revitalizing Recruitment In A Lupus Rescue Study

CLINICAL SITES

Site-Level Change Model And Successful Strategies For Medicare Compliance In Clinical Trials

Discover best practices for achieving and maintaining Medicare billing compliance for clinical trials.

6 AI And Machine Learning Considerations For Trial Management

Are you planning to incorporate AI and machine learning (ML) into your workflow? there are multiple opportunities to optimize their use. Find considerations for integrating these strategies.

Operational Excellence In A Clinical Research Site Network

This case study highlights operational excellence within a global clinical trial for osteoporosis, underscoring the critical role of site networks in achieving research success.

A Path To Fixing The Severe Mental Illness Care Access Gap

By breaking down research access barriers, our approach not only enhances trial participation but also promises to improve mental healthcare outcomes for patients with SMI.

Taming The Complex Clinical-Trial Ecosystem

To navigate the growing number of vendor portals required for clinical trials, sites are seeking a vendor- and sponsor-agnostic solution to enable single sign-on and study organization.

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