Software minimizes clinical study enrollment period.
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Web-based Patient Recruitment Management System bridges divide between study community members and data they need to move patient recruitment forward. Accessible in real-time, data points include patient status from inquiry to randomization, enrollment projections vs actuals, site performance, and materials development status. With on-demand reporting, data can be cut according to user needs and generated in visual formats for analysis, tracking, and planning.
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TCN e-Systems Introduces Patient Recruitment Management System
Easy-to-Deploy e-Recruitment System Designed to Reduce Longest Span in Clinical Development Timeline
NEWTON, Mass., June 14 /-- TCN e-Systems, LLC, the first company to specialize in e-recruitment toolkits for clinical trials, today announces a Web-based system designed to shorten the clinical study enrollment period -- the longest time span in the clinical development cycle, representing the biggest opportunity for sponsors to reduce time to market. Leveraging nearly 25 years of patient recruitment experience, TCN e-Systems identifies the problem: study team members do not have access to the very data and processes they need to streamline enrollment; and solves it by introducing to sponsors the ready-to-use, e-recruitment toolkits that comprise a patient recruitment management system (PRMS). In fact, TCN e-Systems also introduces the PRMS concept to the industry today.
"While the time from data-lock to regulatory submission has been addressed by the industry, now is the time to address closing the gap between protocol approval and last patient in," says Joan F. Bachenheimer, TCN e-Systems founder. "We can't put patient recruitment on the back burner anymore."
Unlike its heavy-duty predecessors in the clinical data management technology space, clinical trial management systems (CTMS) and clinical data management systems (CDMS), TCN e-Systems' PRMS solution is Web-based, can be deployed rapidly and cost-effectively, and requires little to no training -- a rare concept to sponsors accustomed to technology adoption that takes years. Because it is compatible and integrates easily with CTMS, CDMS, as well as most other data sources common to clinical trial management, TCN e-Systems' PRMS can draw in key data points study team members require -- essentially becoming a portal to critical enrollment data.
"There's a divide between the study community that's integrally involved in seeing patients, managing enrollment, randomization and retention, and the data that they collect in other systems," says Bachenheimer. "These systems are designed to house data for FDA submission -- not for real-time, universal access or for analysis to help patient enrollment. After a validation period, access to these data is limited to only a few study team members -- who may or may not use it -- and it is not accessible at all to investigative sites."
TCN e-Systems' PRMS bridges the divide between all study community members and the data they need to move patient recruitment forward. These data points, previously inaccessible in real-time, nor in a singular, user-friendly format or location, include: patient status from inquiry to randomization, enrollment projections vs. actuals, site initiation rates, site performance, individual site outreach budgets, cost-benefit of outreach programs, and materials development status.
Now, with patient recruitment metrics built-in, TCN e-Systems' PRMS not only provides access to the data, but makes it actionable. With the system's on-demand reporting functionality, current data can be cut according to user needs, and generated in visual formats for easy analysis, tracking, and planning. Specific reports can be set up in minutes and need only be set up once, allowing users to generate each report update with a single mouse click.
TCN e-Systems' PRMS solution comes in the form of six product suites designed to offset six enrollment risk areas. These products include: TrialCENTRALNet(SM), StudyFORECASTER(SM), SiteOPTIMIZER(SM), MaterialsMANAGER(SM), PatientGENERATOR(SM), and CommunityBUILDER(SM).
"Proven patient recruitment metrics as well as Good Recruitment Practice(SM) processes are built right in to TCN e-Systems product suites," says Bonnie A. Brescia, BBK Worldwide founding principal and TCN e-Systems co- founder. "Sponsors using them will automatically lay a foundation for successful present and future studies because they are following GRP."
"PRMS should really stand for Patient Recruitment Made Simple," says Bachenheimer.
TCN e-Systems' introduction of the Patient Recruitment Management System coincides with the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association in Atlanta from June 17-21, where TCN e-Systems will be exhibiting at booth #921.
About TCN e-Systems
TCN e-Systems, LLC, located in Newton, Mass., is an e-recruitment company focused on streamlining patient enrollment for life sciences companies through Web-based product suites that are designed to respond to the six enrollment risk areas. Founded in October 2006 by Joan F. Bachenheimer and Bonnie A. Brescia of leading patient recruitment company BBK Worldwide, TCN e-Systems is built on nearly 25 years of patient recruitment expertise and industry thought leadership. With years of development in actual clinical trial recruitment campaigns, TCN e-Systems' technology is time-tested and proven to create more successful and faster enrollment. tcnesystems.com
CONTACT: Elizabeth Gargill of TCN e-Systems, LLC, +1-617-630-5513, egargill@tcneystems.com
Web site: http://www.tcnesystems.com/
