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ePatientFinder, an EHR-driven clinical trial site optimization and patient identification company, and electronic health records (EHR) provider Allscripts jointly announced the release of GeoPrecise, a heatmap tool that uses patient data for clinical trial site selection and patient identification.
GeoPrecise leverages the analytics of ePatientFinder’s Clinical Trial Exchange platform with Allscripts’ 45 million unique EHRs to pinpoint and enroll protocol-eligible patients in specific geographic regions across the country more effectively.
“Increasingly, patient recruitment and big data companies are providing heatmaps aimed at helping sponsors and CROs [contract research organizations] identify the best locations to place their studies based on the theoretical number of patients in that area diagnosed with a specific medical condition or disease,” said Tom Dorsett, CEO and president of ePatientFinder. “However, the problem is that they have no way of placing those specific patients into clinical trials.”
According to the companies, the Geo-Precise tool makes heatmaps actionable. “We’re the only solution that is able to leverage big datasets, partner directly with physicians, and identify and enroll actual patients in clinical trials from those datasets,” Dorsett said.