Patient Focus Area

Engage patients to directly share their data with clinical research entities.

Explore ways to engage patients to allow them to directly share their RWD (EHR data, PROs, AE, etc.) with clinical research.

Patient engagement gives sponsors and CROs an opportunity to gain invaluable data input and feedback from stakeholders who have traditionally not been viewed as a core part of the study team – patients.  

  • Enhanced patient empowerment
  • Streamlined data sharing
  • Reduces manual data entry burden 
  • Enriches data quality
  • Expands safety surveillance
  • Improves patient experience
  • Facilitates longitudinal studies
  • Supports regulatory decisions
  • Enables decentralized clinical trials
  • Provides a secure pathway for return of data from sponsors
  • Accelerates research and innovation

NIH studies found patient engagement technology:  

  • Helps reduce barriers to clinical trial participation
  • Improves retention (particularly under-represented populations)
  • Provides a more complete understanding of the impact of an intervention, therapy, or service 

Sharing RWD provides the research team with a broad set of data in near real time, improving patient surveillance / safety while minimizing data errors and reducing study costs.

Resources & Implementation Guides

For more information on this use case, please contact  Debi Wilis at [email protected]