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During the initial years at TrialX, we often had a requirement to create “online forms” to capture patient information before referring her to a clinical trial. We had a few unique set of requirements: Ability to create arbitrary web-based forms with input labels and controls/widgets – similar to Google Forms. Conduct run-time matches on the eligibility criteria [...]
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Dark clouds are hovering over the enterprises. The enterprises find themselves with limited customization options in vendors’ cloud-based offering. I believe that the cloud software that does not properly integrate with the existing systems and workflow of the client site, will inevitably fail. Open API’s or modular architecture can potentially allow the client integrate/customize as [...]
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It seems these days everyone wants to incorporate “engagement” in their app or website. Even Google, the search engine, whose goal once was to get user off of google.com as fast as possible, has taken a complete U-turn and is trying hard to keep users on its pro per tie s. Creating online engagement is like building [...]
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This topic has been debated over and over. Based on my first-hand experience, I feel qualified to share my thoughts on signs indicating that your start-up is no longer a ‘startup’. You take the entire weekend off. i.e. 2 full days, i.i.e. complete Saturday and complete Sunday You spend more time on preparing client presentations [...]
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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 [...]
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Last friday Google announced that it will discontinue its Google Health product. Although, it did not come as a big surprise to most people in the online health space, I’m personally saddened with this announcement because we started about the same time as Google Health and we were one of the first 10 apps to [...]
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We just spent our entire Sunday digging up server logs and conducting a post-mortem analysis on why our website (www.trialx.com) kept going down. According to pingdom.com, our site went down 61 times in the past 2 days! Our traffic numbers are very modest – we receive about a few hundred thousand visits per month – [...]
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This past week, we were in Washington D.C at the Annual American Medical Informatics Association 2010 conference presenting our research study on What Do Patients Search for When Seeking Clinical Trial Information Online? As always, it was a productive conference meeting new people and catching up with old connections. We were pleasantly surprised with TrialX [...]
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As an online patient recruitment company focused on technology and social media, we put significant resources on understanding the patterns and information needs expressed by patients seeking clinical trial information on the Internet. One of the component of this effort includes analyzing web log data to understand the keywords and discovering high-level patterns. We published [...]
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Past few months, we’ve been hard at work re-designing the TrialX.com user interface to improve the user experience and creating the best clinical trials search engine for patients and their family members. We went through a number of design iterations and informal usability tests to come up with the new design and the flow. The [...]
