DecisionView: Taking Patient Enrollment Planning from Instinct to Insight

This Health Industry Insights Perspective examines the ongoing efforts at a global pharmaceutical company to optimize the planning and execution of patient enrollment during clinical trials. Faced with unpredictable recruitment cycle times and cost overruns resulting from inconsistent and rigid processes, the company engaged DecisionView Inc. to implement its StudyOptimizer application. Through the implementation of StudyOptimizer, the company experienced increased transparency of patient enrollment efforts, thereby empowering clinical trial study managers to better understand the underlying drivers impacting patient enrollment. StudyOptimizer's tools have helped to proactively identify problems during enrollment and determine workarounds, resulting in an increase in studies delivered on time from 33% to more than 66%. In addition, when presented with firm milestone dates early in development planning, study managers were able to objectively determine the likelihood that deadlines would be met and make adjustments to better ensure that project timelines were achievable.

This Perspective provides insights developed from direct discussions with a senior-level business process analytics manager at a major global pharmaceutical company and Gonzalo Castro, VP of product marketing at DecisionView.