Why Do I Need an Online Pre-Screen Questionnarie? TrialX Investigator Manual FAQs

We provide an automatically generated online pre-screener for each trial. Such pre-screeners are a way to filter out patients that are not relevant to the study. The two most important pre-screening criteria that we have found is simply asking the patient if they have the condition and if they live within say 30 miles of the [...]

Can I Upload My Trials Later? – TrialX Investigator Manual FAQs

Yes! We understand that if you are a new investigator and want to register on TrialX, we make you enter information about your study and your site before your account is created. We did it because ultimately that is what you want – to upload your trial and increase awareness about it. However, once you [...]

Empowering Patients to Connect with Clinical Trial Investigators using their HealthVault PHR at New York Presbyterian

After Google’s decision to shut down Google Health (read a heart-felt post by our Google Health App developers) , there has been a fair share of pessimism expressed by many, with some bloggers even questioning the future viability of PHRs themselves. However, we have some exciting updates on our still nascent but encouraging efforts to [...]

What Should I Write in the Benefits Section of the Trial? – TrialX Investigator Manual FAQs

We recommend that you provide the patients with accurate information about what they can expect to benefit from the study. Clinical trials hold many attributes that participants can benefit from. Each group of participant rank those benefits according to its own needs. There are groups of participants who care only to benefit a remedy for [...]

How To Write a Patient Friendly Trial Description? – TrialX Investigator Manual FAQs

The complex and professional trial description frightens and deter patients from volunteering to clinical studies. Do what ever you can to simplify the description and make it patient friendly. Remember, the majority of the population are not familiar with medical terminology. The clinical trial description can be divided into 4 elements: Title – read more [...]

How To Write Patient Friendly Inclusion/Exclusion Questions? – TrialX Investigator Manual FAQs

One of the most daunting pieces of information about a clinical trial is the text regarding inclusion/exclusion criteria. The complex trial description and the medical terminology can frighten and deter patients from volunteering to clinical trials. This is particularly true for cancer and other chronic disease trials. Our recommendation, without disregarding the IRB’s guidance, is [...]

Did Google Health Die? Or was it killed and Became a Martyr of the PHR Revolution

The defining characteristic of the new PHR platforms is that they let patients import their health records (Step 1, Figure 2) from a number of healthcare organizations, including hospitals and pharmacies, and enable them to use their health information for better self-management through third-party applications. In essence, the PHR platforms are analogous to the iPhone platform, which has extended the utility of the phone by its vast collection of useful third-party applications. Similarly, patients can choose to add a third-party PHR application to  their PHR accounts (Step 2, Figure 2) and then give consent to the application to reuse the data within their PHRs, so that the application can provide some personalized and useful services to the patients (Steps 2 and 3, Figure 2). The provision in these PHR platforms to enable patients to control “what they can do with their health information and who they can share the information with” has been described as a “tectonic shift in the health information economy.”14 It can be envisioned that patients may want to use their record for a variety of purposes. For instance, patients may add an application that provides them reminders for different vaccines or preventive screening tests based on their health profiles, or one that helps them find clinical trials that match their health profile and express an interest in enrolling in them. The latter usage scenario can create a new scale of data liquidity, by moving information from hundreds of hospital clinical databases into PHR platforms and into applications that match patients to clinical trials (Steps 2 and 3, Figure 2).

The martyr: Google Health Primary Cause of Demise: Human/Organizational factors such as ‘Control (and fear of loss) of patient Data’ the main cause of Google health’s early death (and of many other HIT products) The Big Announcement: Google Health to shut down Over the last few days there has been considerable discussion in the blogosphere [...]