Case Study - ReCES Solution
AMERICAN HEALTH NETWORK
40 Providers, 4 locations
American Health Network (AHN) is a multi-specialty organization that implemented ReCES in 2010. AHN has a busy clinical research department that has 80 plus studies running at any given time. Before using ReCES, they were tracking studies through Excel spreadsheets. They sought out a more automated way of identifying patients for clinical trials which brought them to purchase Simbiote’s ReCES solution.
Finding patients that are eligible for inclusion in clinical trials can be a burdensome process. Study protocols can contain just a few metrics or as many as several hundred metrics that must be found in a patient’s chart to make them eligible for inclusion in a trial. Mary Schmoll, Director of Clinical Research, shares “In the past this meant running reports and doing manual chart reviews to identify patients. Now study protocols and the associated metrics are entered into ReCES and qualifying patients are instantly found. Providers as well as research coordinators are alerted real time as to a patient’s eligibility. Today, we are finding 90% of the patients that qualify before the trial even starts. “ReCES has also dramatically improved my team’s efficiency and reduced the cost of operations in our department. It has cut our recruitment time by 75%.”
AHN also identified an unexpected benefit from using ReCES, staff who work in the research department are now able to work remotely doing patient recruiting whereas before they had to be in the office to work.
Finding patients that are eligible for inclusion in clinical trials can be a burdensome process. Study protocols can contain just a few metrics or as many as several hundred metrics that must be found in a patient’s chart to make them eligible for inclusion in a trial. Mary Schmoll, Director of Clinical Research, shares “In the past this meant running reports and doing manual chart reviews to identify patients. Now study protocols and the associated metrics are entered into ReCES and qualifying patients are instantly found. Providers as well as research coordinators are alerted real time as to a patient’s eligibility. Today, we are finding 90% of the patients that qualify before the trial even starts. “ReCES has also dramatically improved my team’s efficiency and reduced the cost of operations in our department. It has cut our recruitment time by 75%.”
AHN also identified an unexpected benefit from using ReCES, staff who work in the research department are now able to work remotely doing patient recruiting whereas before they had to be in the office to work.
