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Since March, a service called “TrialX” connect patients with clinical trials, using Twitter. “The company integrated with two online personal health record providers: Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault,” notes the report.

A new partnership between CenterWatch and TrialX may help boost flagging recruitment rates by “helping patients more easily and rapidly connect with relevant clinical trials.”

“One of CenterWatch’s fundamental objectives is to ensure that patients have the access they need to the thousands of clinical trials going on around the world,” says Chris Pooley, senior vice president of CenterWatch. “Likewise, it’s important that investigators have as many avenues as possible for patient recruitment. Our partnership with TrialX helps to accomplish both those goals.”

Set up as a more focused alternative to Clinicaltrials.gov, which might show thousands of search results, TrialX creates a match between the patient’s health profile, lab results, and medications, as well as locations.

TrialX also plans to enable users to: Search for clinical trials by location, medical condition or treatment; Share clinical with your patients, friends or family; Call the investigator conducting the trial.

Competition sponsor and judge, Randall Kane, Managing Director at Solidea Capital, “TrialX identified a business need with great clarity as well as presenting a sustainable business plan, based upon efficiency and significant corporate cost reduction. While reducing costs is a part of everyday life in this economic environment, within the pharma industry it is at the top of every CFO’s list.”

Yet another patient recruitment tool has just been released by New York-based Applied Informatics. But this one is a “do-it-yourself” platform that moves the search for clinical trials onto social media sites like Twitter.