Experts at "Closing the Gap Now"
Conference Explore Better Ways to Bring Promising Drugs to Patients
with Fatal Diseases
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - Feb 23, 2015 - AMC Health, a
leading provider of real-time patient management solutions, and
recognized for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of
clinical trials, participated in a recent conference that explored
methods, processes and technologies to significantly reduce the
time for critically ill patients to have access to promising new
treatments. Reducing the gap between discovery and approval
of new drugs, frequently as long as 10 years, was the focus of the
recent Closing the Gap Now
Conference, which hopes to accelerate and expand access to
medicines for people with cancer and other deadly illnesses.
At the February 18th conference,
John Holland, Senior VP for Research of the Clinical Trials
Division of AMC Health, described the companys pioneering work in
accelerating the pace of drug approval by reducing the time
required to complete clinical studies. It has been shown that
travel time, distance from the study site and frequent site visits
make it difficult to recruit subjects for trials and contribute to
high dropout rates, causing long delays and increasing the risk of
trial failure.
Holland reported on AMC Healths
participation in new studies, which leverage mobile technology to
seamlessly capture trial data from patients in their homes,
enabling subjects to participate without having to travel to a
study site. Using telehealth to conduct video eVisits and collect
biometric and symptom data remotely enables patients who live far
from a traditional clinical trial site to participate in a wide
variety of trials for diseases such as prostate cancer, multiple
sclerosis, ulcerative colitis and Parkinsons disease. AMC Health
technologies significantly expand the geographic recruitment area
by reducing travel and time burdens on patients.
This improved patient
connectivity increases speed of recruitment, improves compliance
with test protocols and helps retain more subjects for the duration
of the study. Remote monitoring also improves the quality of
clinical trials by enabling collection of more robust data, which
leads to faster conclusions and higher quality
submissions.
Watch the following video to see
how eVisits can be used in clinical trials:http://www.amchealth.com/clinical-trials/
About Closing The Gap
Now
Closing the Gap Now (www.closingthegapnow.org)
provides patients who are experiencing life-threatening diseases
with its Open Access and Open Source Pathway that combines Big Data
analyses, systems biology, and crowdsourcing with digital tools
that enable patients to record their progress and drug
effectiveness in real time. Patients who would otherwise be left
with few, if any options can receive open access to treatment
solutions, which have demonstrated some success in early clinical
trials.
The Richard M. Schulze Family
Foundation and The Childrens Cancer Research Foundation, along
with assistance from The Center for Medicine in the Public
Interest, have made it possible to present Closing the Gap Now
(CTGN). For more information visit ClosingTheGapNow.org
About AMC Health
AMC Health is a leading provider of customized, scalable and
cost-effective real-time patient management solutions that assist
organizations serving at-risk populations or that conduct clinical
trials. Its patient engagement, health monitoring and care
coordination solutions have been proven in several studies
published in peer-reviewed journals to improve patient outcomes and
quality of care, and reduce overall healthcare costs. AMC Health is
headquartered in New York, NY. For more information, visit www.amchealth.com.
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