I asked ChatGPT how clinical trials can increase patient engagement. The AI tool had much to say, offering nine strategies and many sub-strategies:
- Patient-Centered Trial Design
- Use of Technology
- Personalized Communication
- Patient Support & Resources
- Reducing Financial and Logistical Burdens
- Patient Advocacy and Community Involvement
- Incentives and Feedback
- Cultural Sensitivity and Inclusion
- Social Support & Peer Networks
I subsequently asked ChatGPT the best way to increase clinical trials patient engagement. Another long answer that I’ll paraphrase for you: The best strategy is a combination of patient-centric design, technology, personalized communication, and support systems that reduce barriers to participation.
At OpenClinica, we accelerate clinical trials by automating data acquisition through our software-as-a-service platform. In terms of ways to increase patient engagement in clinical trials, OpenClinica’s focus is the use of technology to improve automation, convenience, and patient engagement in decentralized and hybrid study designs.
OpenClinica Share: Patient-Directed Data Sharing
I am thrilled to introduce our blog readers to our new patient engagement tool, OpenClinica Share™. It’s a highly secure patient-friendly mobile app interface that enables patient-directed health record sharing in clinical research studies and registries.
With OpenClinica Share™, empowered patients transfer their health record data directly to the research study database from their Apple iPhone, simplifying data sharing for patients participating in clinical research. It’s easy for trial participants to use. Just three simple steps.
- A participant downloads the Share app to their smartphone.
- A participant then uses the app to authorize access to their medical records.
- The participant taps to share specified records with the clinical study.
OpenClinica Share: Sponsor Benefits
For sponsors, OpenClinica Share™ expands the participant pool by tapping into an existing network of 800+ global participating institutions with 12,000+ locations (and growing). Equally important, our new patient engagement tool aggregates health records for patients with complex histories from multiple providers and medical record systems. Engaging diverse patient populations suffering from chronic or rare diseases, who often see many healthcare providers, is a major challenge for researchers that OpenClinica Share™ helps to solve. Other sponsor benefits are auto-populating eCRFs with source data in a single tap, reducing site and monitoring burden, and finalizing data faster.
OpenClinica Share: Using Technology to Improve Patient Engagement
OpenClinica is committed to using technology to improve patient engagement in decentralized and hybrid study designs. OpenClinica Share™ simplifies data sharing for patients and clinical trial sites and is an important addition to our suite of patient engagement solutions, which includes:
Electronic Consent (eConsent) allows participants to read and sign informed consent documents online. With OpenClinica Consent, interactive, multimedia components can be used remotely or on site to help patients to make informed consent and decisions, while simplifying consent processes for clinical staff.
Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) enables patient questionnaires and diaries anytime, anywhere, on any device with no app to install, offering a frictionless way for patients to engage. With OpenClinica Participate™, ePRO, send friendly, just-in-time notifications and reminders through SMS or email, and data that is fresh in a patient’s mind instantly becomes part of the overall study data set.
OpenClinica is leading the way in decentralized clinical trials with OpenClinica Share™, Consent, and Participate™. We remain committed to helping clinical trials recruit, retain and engage patients while simultaneously reducing administrative burden and enabling better data, faster.
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