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CRF Health, the leading provider of patient-centered eSource for the life sciences industry, announced that its TrialConsent® electronic informed consent solution has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Patient-Focused Technological Development’ category in the 2018 Clinical & Research Excellence (CARE) Awards.
In light of recent award successes, this honor further recognizes CRF Health for its disruptive and innovative solutions in the industry through this first-of-its-kind eConsent and eCOA hybrid technology to support and enable patient-centric clinical trials.
This year’s CARE award received a significant 53% increase in entries, the quality of which was deemed extremely high. The ‘Best Patient-Focused Technology Development’ category assesses entrants on their ability to gather high-quality patient data via digital tools, and solutions which best represent advances in improving data collection and/or the patient experience in clinical trials. TrialConsent provides an electronic solution for the development, use, oversight and archiving of informed consent.
A major advancement in improving patient comprehension in clinical research, TrialConsent incorporates recommendations from the FDA’s Guidance on informed consent and the Clinical Trial Transformation Initiative’s (CTTI) recommendations for improving approaches to informed consent. This enables sponsors, Institutional Review Boards (IRB/IEC) and research sites to achieve better patient-centered trials. Featuring rich multimedia, tiered-learning and interactive learning assessments, TrialConsent improves recruitment and retention rates through better comprehension of consent materials by trial participants. It also allows for greater consistency and control in the informed consent process thereby limiting regulatory risk.
Speaking on the third award announcement this year for TrialConsent, Rachael Wyllie, CRF Health’s CEO, commented: “Trial Consent allows trial designs to easily integrate electronic informed consent and eCOA solutions on a single platform, and even on the same device. This pioneering hybrid solution removes the need for a separate consenting technology to be used, significantly reducing complexity for researchers and providing an intelligent solution which makes the informed consent process more effective and more efficiently streamlined for all stakeholders. We are delighted that TrialConsent has once again been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2018 CARE Awards.”
Winners will be announced at The CARE Awards ceremony which takes place in Boston, MA, on April 25, 2018. Attended by distinguished leaders in the bio pharmaceutical, CRO and diagnostic industries from all corners of the globe, the awards celebrate achievements across the clinical research industry.
For further information on CRF Health and the TrialConsent solution, please visit www.crfhealth.com
About CRF Health
CRF Health is the leading provider of patient-centered eSource for the life sciences industry. With experience in more than 800 clinical trials, over 100 languages and across 74 countries, CRF Health’s TrialMax® platform consistently demonstrates the industry’s highest data accuracy, patient and site compliance, and patient retention. The integrated TrialMax platform includes eCOA solutions for collecting PROs (Patient Reported Outcomes), ObsROs (Observer Reported Outcomes), ClinROs (Clinician or Rater Reported Outcomes), and PerfOs (Performance Outcomes), and features TrialConsent®, an electronic solution for collecting and managing informed consent in clinical trials. CRF Health’s eSource solutions improve trial engagement by making the patient the center of the clinical trial process.
