The National Minority Quality Forum’s National Health Index (NHI) has announced a collaboration with Microsoft Corporation to launch the National Clinical Trial Network (NCTN), a new registry designed to address important challenges in clinical trials in an effort to accelerate recruitment and diversity in clinical trials.
According to a news release about the partnership, the relationship will allow NCTN “to deliver a platform that provides a comprehensive database of clinical trial options to providers.” The NCTN will also be a data warehouse of patient registries, bio banks and community-level health statistics that will turn isolated data repositories into an integrated, searchable national archive; this will permit “the rapid identification of representative samples of risk populations who might benefit from a proposed therapy,” according to the news reports.
The NCTN will also maintain a database of profiles of clinical research institutions, experienced clinical investigators and individuals who want to become a clinical researcher. This investigator registry will provide background information on investigators, the practices and the communities they serve, according to news releases.
“It’s our view big data will change the way we conduct clinical trials moving forward,” explains Gary Puckrein, president and CEO of the National Minority Quality Forum. “What makes the NCTN platform unique is it will provide an interactive, communications portal linking researchers to practicing physicians whose diversity of patients may be candidates for clinical trials. Being able to quickly link the broader community of medical researchers, practicing physicians, tertiary care centers and allied health professionals together, we can expedite discovery and translational research.”
The National Clinical Trial Network will be introduced in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to news reports.
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