Clinical trials play an important role in the medical field to determine whether new medications, new treatments, and new medical equipment are safe and effective. But, this cannot be possible to determine without testing the same on patients. The process of conducting a trial, thus, becomes difficult as many patients are not willing to participate in such trials. However, clinical trials abide by stringent criteria to ensure that the participating patients remain safe and secured right up till the end. But, it is very natural for one to be afraid of participating and putting their lives at risk, even though there is constant monitoring by medical professionals.
Researchers and physicians are always swimming through a pool of data to match patients to trials, which includes structured data like name, age, ethnicity, etc. However, they also include important unstructured data that is found in the notes that physicians maintain about their patients. But, this becomes problematic as each physician has his own style and terminology, which makes searching through such data very exhausting. Researchers are required to go through hundreds of patient charts for weeks or months to find even the few patients who align with the trial. More than 50% of the trials do not match the enrollment goals.
Nevertheless, all this work is going to become more efficient now. Opportunities have been identified to accelerate the pace at which the discovery of treatments can be advanced that can save patients’ lives. And, this has been possible only through Artificial Intelligence, or AI. There are AI tools that can shorten the process from months to only minutes! AI can learn the unique terminology used by physicians, and then automatically search through patient notes, thus making it faster and easier to match patients to the appropriate clinical trial.
AI allows research centers across the globe to connect with each other. This is how researchers can get the necessary number of patients from across the world for even the rarest of diseases quicker as AI helps to pull from a larger international pool of patients. So, we hope that with this advent of technology, India can also get a good list of patients who are willing to participate and help to find a better treatment for various diseases that have stricken them and many other individuals of their country.
Contrary to patients, on the other side of the path are researchers and medical professionals. While our scientific professionals are getting patients to take up clinical trial participation as a good and safe cause for helping themselves and others with such technologies, we at Avigna Clinical Research Centre help build up a team of young clinical research professionals for the future. Here too, we use latest technologies to help candidates learn clinical research diploma courses in Bangalore from professionals right from the comfort of their home. Our way of teaching helps students learn from wherever they want, whenever they want, while getting all the necessary education and earning a legitimate certificate that can help fetch them jobs in top CROs, Bio-tech companies, and Pharmaceutical companies across the nation.
