Clinical Trial Management Platform Real-Time Data Aggregation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The complexity and cost of managing clinical trials, including lengthy drug development timelines, multiple stakeholders, confidentiality concerns, high regulatory standards, and the need for efficient tracking and analysis of clinical trial metrics, pose significant challenges for clinical research sites.

Innovation Solution

A cloud-based clinical trial management platform that automates study lead tracking, manages contacts and performance metrics, provides real-time data aggregation, and uses AI to predict successful trial sites, facilitating better resource allocation and strategic decision-making.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual tracking and analysis of clinical trial metrics is used, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but time consumption and labor costs increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrial management efficiencyVSAvoidtime for data collection and analysis
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically collects, aggregates, and analyzes trial data from multiple sources without requiring manual intervention. The platform self-performs data collection, metric calculation, and performance evaluation, eliminating the need for manual tracking while maintaining accurate and timely analysis of clinical trial metrics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Manual mechanical processes of data collection and analysis are replaced with automated electronic systems. The platform uses digital data aggregation, automated metric determination, and electronic performance evaluation to substitute manual operations, significantly reducing time consumption while improving productivity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Speed

If real-time data aggregation from multiple sources is implemented, then decision-making speed improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing speedVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The platform is designed as a universal system that handles multiple functions including data collection from various sources, data aggregation, metric determination, and performance evaluation. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into one unified platform, managing complexity while achieving real-time processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces centralized data aggregation and processing layers that act as intermediaries between multiple data sources and the analysis layer. This intermediary structure simplifies the architecture by providing standardized interfaces for data collection and processing, making the system more manageable despite handling multiple data sources in real-time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If automated AI-based evaluation is used, then analysis accuracy improves, but implementation cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrial metric evaluation accuracyVSAvoidsystem implementation cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates AI-based evaluation that continuously learns from trial data and improves its accuracy over time. The automated evaluation provides feedback mechanisms that refine its predictions and analyses, increasing measurement precision while the standardized implementation approach helps control costs through reusable algorithms and structured processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20240242792A1Data processing system for evaluating and managing clinical trials
Publication Date: 2024.07.18 DEVANA SOLUTIONS LLC
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AI summary

An approach is provided for managing clinical trials and research. The approach involves collecting, in real-time, trial data from a plurality of data sources corresponding to a plurality of clinical trials. The approach also involves receiving, via a graphical user interface, input data specifying a medical indication. The approach further involves aggregating the trial data from the plurality of data sources based on the input data, and selecting one or more of the plurality of clinical trials based on the input data. The approach also involves determining a plurality of metrics for the selected one or more of the clinical trials. The approach further involves generating performance evaluation data for the selected one or more of the clinical trials using the plurality of metrics; and outputting, in real-time, the performance evaluation data for presentation via the graphical user interface.