Looking to expand your reach to more potential research participants?

Boost your Research Hive experience with our seamless social media pre-screener and mobile app integration.

In today’s digital age, the landscape of healthcare is rapidly evolving. Our mission is to revolutionize the clinical trial recruitment process by harnessing the vast potential of social media. Introducing a cutting-edge solution: the seamless fusion of an online social media pre-screener with the advanced capabilities of the Research Hive application. This pioneering integration promises to transform patient referrals and elevate investigator involvement in clinical trials to unprecedented levels of efficiency and effectiveness. With a special focus on conditions like fatty liver disease, we are not just streamlining a process — we're paving the way for groundbreaking medical discoveries and enhanced patient care through innovation and connectivity.

Identifying and enrolling suitable candidates for clinical trials is a complex endeavor that traditionally demands considerable time and effort. The rise of social media and digital platforms heralds a new era of opportunity for connecting with prospective trial participants. Despite this, the journey from online interest to actual participation is often fraught with intricate procedures and disjointed systems. These hurdles can result in the loss of interested individuals and introduce significant inefficiencies to the recruitment process. By streamlining this pathway, we aim to retain participant engagement and maximize the efficacy of trial enrollments.

Our innovative solution redefines the recruitment journey, creating a direct conduit from social media engagement to clinical trial participation within the Research Hive application. This intuitive integration allows prospective participants to showcase their interest effortlessly through a social media pre-screener. They can then grant permission for their data to flow seamlessly to investigators on the Research Hive platform. This eliminates the complexity of toggling between different systems and establishes a more cohesive, user-friendly experience, ensuring a smooth transition to active involvement in clinical trials.

Workflow Enhancement

• Precision-Targeted Campaigns: Leverage the power of social media and online advertising to pinpoint and engage with individuals experiencing specific health conditions, such as fatty liver disease, enhancing the precision and relevance of our outreach.

• Informative Study Portal: Direct potential participants to a dedicated pre-screener website tailored to the study, providing comprehensive information and empowering them with the knowledge needed to make an informed decision about their participation.

• Effortless Pre-Screening Experience: Implement a user-friendly pre-screening questionnaire that not only gauges participant interest but also seamlessly collects consent for information sharing, simplifying the initial engagement with the trial.

• Seamless Research Hive Integration: Ensure that all pre-screener submissions are automatically pushed into the Research Hive application. This sophisticated system adeptly aligns referrals with suitable trial sites participating in your study, taking into account multiple variables, such as geographical location, to furnish investigators with a streamlined pipeline of ready and relevant participants.

Benefits of Research Hive Pre-Screener Integration

• Maximize Recruitment Efficiency: Direct integration into Research Hive allows investigators to access patient referrals in one place, speeding up the recruitment process and reducing administrative overhead. This consolidation eliminates the inefficiency of juggling multiple systems, dramatically accelerating the recruitment timeline.

• Boosted Participant Engagement: By transforming the path from social media engagement to trial pre-screening into a seamless process, we significantly elevate the participant experience. This refinement mitigates drop-off rates, ensuring a higher conversion of interest into actual study enrollment.

• Centralized Referral Management: All referral sources, including physician recommendations and direct inquiries from patients, are consolidated within Research Hive for streamlined management, enhancing the ability to organize and expedite follow-up actions efficiently.

• Adaptive Scalability for Diverse Trials: The integration is tailored to accommodate a range of trial requirements and is built to scale with increasing participant numbers and study sizes, ensuring it remains a robust solution for growing research initiatives.

Enhance your clinical trial recruitment with the power of Research Hive’s latest innovation: a seamlessly integrated social media pre-screener. This strategic enhancement is designed to optimize the participant journey, ensuring that from the first click on social media to the final enrollment in a study, every step is streamlined and participant-focused. It’s more than a tool; it’s a transformation in trial engagement that places efficiency at its heart. With Research Hive, step into a new era of clinical research where digital solutions meet human-centric care, fostering a forward-thinking environment that empowers participants and researchers alike.

Conclusion

Research Hive was designed by clinical research professionals, for clinical research professionals to help to reduce challenges in the space by improving efficiency and increasing effectiveness. Most importantly, we exemplify the true meaning of making the patient the center of everything that we do by optimizing the process of physicians talking to patients via the Research Hive app tool, which truly puts the power of the patients into the hands of the PIs and Site Staff. Through the tool, we foster what is most important in helping to bring clinical trials to as many potential patients as possible: Information sharing in the most efficient, effective manner possible. Our ultimate goal is to enable more physicians to talk to more patients about clinical trials, resulting in the opportunity to improve enrollment in EVERY trial site-wide and allow patients to be informed of every option available to them.

If you're interested, please reach out to us for an in-depth look at how our services can contribute to the success of your studies. Contact us today and take the first step towards seamless research coordination.

Brian Harry, CTO and Head of Operations brian@researchhive.com

Jillian Schmitz, Project Manager jillian@researchhive.com

Are you facing challenges recruiting patients for your studies?

Did you know that Research Hive offers Site Coordinator Support?

Beginning in 2021, we launched an essential service to support patient recruitment efforts for enrolling studies!

Research Hive Can Perform the Following:

• Chart Review and follow-up *our most popular service*

• Data entry into the EDC system

• Phone screening of potential patients

• Scheduling appointments for patients

• Placing appointment reminder calls to patients

• Coordinating transportation assistance

• Providing and discussing approved study materials with patients

• Maintaining contact with patients in the "screening" phase to reduce "drop-outs" during that time period

• Acting as the Study Coordinator

• AE/SAE document management support

• Other duties, as agreed to by Sponsor, Research Hive, and Site, provided that they are included in the approved scope document

• Integrating a high sense of urgency and commitment to your study, to the entire site staff, focusing on the importance of every single potential patient

The Harsh Reality

Many research sites encounter significant challenges in managing their studies effectively due to limited resources and staffing constraints. Often, site staff are tasked with overseeing multiple studies concurrently, which restricts their ability to allocate the necessary time and attention to each project. Consequently, there is a tendency for sites to prioritize studies that are simpler to enroll participants in or have been active for a shorter period.

This focus shift away from studies that are more challenging to enroll, or those that have been open for an extended duration, can undermine the overall success of a research endeavor. It is crucial for sites to enroll a sufficient number of patients to meet study requirements, which, in turn, compounds their workload. Particularly in fields like Ophthalmology, where there has been a surge in study enrollment, the aspiration to succeed is evident. However, the lack of adequate time and resources often prevents these sites from managing multiple studies efficiently, potentially compromising the quality of the research conducted.

Benefits of Site Coordinator Support

Unlock the full potential of your research endeavors with Research Hive's exclusive Clinical Research Coordinator support team. We pledge to dedicate the essential time, focus, and effort required to propel your study to success. Your priorities shape our mission, ensuring that 'study fatigue' becomes a relic of the past. With our bespoke Clinical Research Coordinator Services, we’re committed to doing whatever it takes for you and your sites to thrive beyond expectations.

We pride ourselves on our flexible approach, tailored to honor the unique nature of each site and its diverse needs. Together, we'll craft a comprehensive 'scoping document' for your project, outlining the precise number of support hours per week, the planned duration of our engagement, and, most critically, the particular tasks we will undertake to advance your study.

We’ll share weekly reports on our activities and results, ensuring transparency. Your study isn't just another task—it's a priority we're dedicated to with care and strategy.

Let us do the heavy lifting for your team and expedite your study’s recruitment goals!

Interested?

If you're interested, please reach out to us for an in-depth look at how our services can contribute to the success of your studies. Contact us today and take the first step towards seamless research coordination.

Brian Harry, CTO and Head of Operations brian@researchhive.com

Jillian Schmitz, Project Manager jillian@researchhive.com

Innovation in Clinical Research Matters | So Do You

Why do we innovate in clinical research?

After all, many investigators are extremely cautious to try something new and are resistant to change something that ‘works’. The answer; because it matters.

Clinical Research Innovation Matters

Patients need access to better treatments.

Those of us in the industry have an obligation to do everything we can to find them. We all have different roles. Some have the incredibly challenging job of calling potential volunteers to pre-screen them for a trial. Others are in a lab working odd hours processing samples. Many work on projects for years pre-clinical only to have the majority of their work fail to move forward. Very few ever come face-to-face with an actual patient.

Once a possible treatment has successfully made it’s way to the coveted Phase III of the relentless but necessary pre FDA-approval phase, many millions of hours and many more millions of dollars have been invested. Still, most treatments will fail to reach a single patient via prescription.

The clinical research industry continues to challenge even the most passionate because of the tireless energy required to have a meaningful impact. If you’re personally in the industry, congratulations and thank you for persevering. Everything everyone does everyday in the industry matters. You could be making copies of source documents or informed consents as a research assistant. That was my first job in the industry. You could also be a global trial leader, having risen to the top of your field, responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of people’s lives volunteering to take a medication your company has created. The latter cannot succeed without many in the former’s position unwilling to quit until the job is done.

Every clinical research job matters

At Research Hive, we’ve built a tool that can make a difference.

So far, every clinical trial that a sponsor has promoted license subscriptions to Research Hive for ALL their sites has completed enrollment EARLY, or is currently ahead of schedule. This is a big claim, but we’re proud of it. It’s impossible to claim that 100% of the reason for early trial completion is because many of the sites use Research Hive, but it’s also hard to claim that Research Hive hasn’t helped substantially.

It’s important to NEVER lose a possible volunteer that has been pre-qualified by a physician. It’s even more important for investigators to know which concomitant medications are prohibited, while they’re in the exam room trying to improve a non-related adverse event. A simple document placed within Research Hive makes it easy to avoid a potentially dangerous mistake.

We owe it to ourselves, our peers, and patients globally who are sick and have no (or too few) options for treatment. Don’t quit. Stay the course. Innovate relentlessly, even when nearly everyone discourages you. If you’re not currently working in clinical research and are still reading this, reach out and I’ll personally help you get started.