Our quest for frictionless, electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO) data capture has us looking for novel ways to engage patients and streamline process. I’d like to share a fun and interesting example of this work, in which we used Participate (the OpenClinica ePRO solution) to engage study subjects at the recent SCDM annual conference.
Our goal at the SCDM conference was to get as many attendees to try OpenClinica Participate as possible. With the vast array of vendors, eye candy, and giveaways, it’s a big challenge to cut through the noise and offer a simple, fun way to engage an audience. The same holds true when engaging patients. With the enormous number of daily distractions, ensuring that your patients can quickly access, fill out and submit well-constructed, simple forms is key to compliance and ultimately, better data.
I built the form, shown here, in OpenClinica and enabled access to it via a custom URL, a new feature in our latest release.
Attendees filled out the form, sprinkled with fun health habit questions, then captured information to allow us to draw their names to win Fitbits and other giveaways. We were able to use this data and update our graphs to give the participant a view of how they stacked up with their peers—cool!
Imagine if patients could view a visual representation of the study they are enrolled in – see the parallels and possibilities?
Who says ePRO and patient engagement can’t be fun?