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You’ve probably seen the buzz: "AI is transforming drug discovery and clinical trials!"
Sounds impressive, right? But what does that actually mean in practice? Let’s break it down.
Today, let’s tackle one of the most challenging aspects of clinical trial—patient recruitment. How are research sites finding and enrolling patients?
For many sites, patient recruitment continues to be a significant hurdle. According to research from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, 11% of trial sites fail to enroll any patients, 37% miss their enrollment goals, and 80% of trials fall short of their recruitment targets.
And the financial toll is steep—struggling with recruitment can cost up to $8 million per trial. In fact, over half of clinical trials fail simply because they can’t recruit enough patients.
Why is it so difficult? There are three major issues at play:
- Social media ads are costly and often feel like a guessing game, especially for complex trials.
- Searching through Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is time-consuming, tedious, and often unfruitful for coordinators.
- Site feasibility feels like an exercise in trial and error.
So, what’s the solution? It’s not about throwing more money at ineffective ads or forcing coordinators to sift through endless EHR data. Those tactics drain both time and budget. What we really need is a way to quickly and efficiently recruit the right patients.
Enter AI. As described by the founders of Trially, the solution is "stupid simple."
AI technology is revolutionizing the patient recruitment process by doing what humans can’t—matching patients to trials and trials to sites with unmatched speed and accuracy. Sites can now focus on enrolling the right patients and stop wasting time on the wrong ones.
Ready to learn more? Here are the five essential features every site should look for when evaluating AI technology for clinical trial recruitment:
1. Data Protection: Security is Key
When it comes to clinical research, protecting patient data is non-negotiable. The best AI solutions offer strong governance and top-tier security, ensuring compliance with HIPAA, SOC II, and FDA Part 11 standards.
At Trially AI, we don’t just meet these standards—we exceed them. Our infrastructure ensures that client data is isolated and secured with unique encryption keys, giving you peace of mind that your patient data is always safe.
2. Seamless Integrations: Let’s Make It Work Together
There’s nothing more frustrating than investing in a solution that doesn’t integrate smoothly with your existing systems. The right AI tools should work seamlessly with EHR systems like Epic, Oracle Cerner, NextGen, and AthenaHealth—making your workflows smarter and faster.
Additionally, integration with your recruitment CRM is crucial. Trially’s partnership with CRIO connects its AI matching software with CRIO’s CTMS platform, allowing sites to quickly identify qualified patients and seamlessly move them through recruitment channels like Salesforce, Hubspot, and others.
3. Protocol Parsing: A Real Time-Saver
Sick of drafting endless queries? With Trially AI, simply upload your protocol and within minutes, our AI breaks it down into clear inclusion and exclusion criteria. You can easily refine these criteria to match your protocol's needs in just a few clicks. Need to update your protocol? Drag and drop the new version, and we’ll take care of the rest.
This intuitive process helps prevent delays and speeds up recruitment.
4. Smarter Patient Matching: Precision and Speed
Imagine instantly accessing all the unstructured data in EHRs that was previously hard to utilize. Trially’s AI matches patients to trials faster and with more precision, analyzing data like demographics, diagnoses, medications, lab results, and medical history in real-time.
In just a few clicks, you’ll know exactly why a patient qualifies—or doesn’t—for your trial, and can contact them directly to expedite recruitment. This results in faster enrollment and fewer screen failures. In fact, one site network using Trially reduced screen failures by 60% and doubled enrollment.
5. Population Analysis: Unlock New Opportunities
Site feasibility just got a major upgrade. Our AI matching technology can not only match patients to trials but also trials to sites. By analyzing your site's patient population in real time, Trially helps you achieve trial diversity targets and discover new study opportunities.
With Population Analysis, you can position your sites for success before the trial even starts, eliminating the guesswork from feasibility.
Ready to Boost Your Trial Enrollment?
By using this checklist, sites can significantly reduce screen failures and recruit the right patients faster. Trially is here to help every step of the way.