assisTek Awarded Contract to Use Smartphone to Collect Patient's Data
March 19, 2009 11:39 AM | Gadgets | Smartphone | Comments (0)
| assisTek, the Leader in Innovative Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes (ePRO) Solutions and Patient Questionnaires for Clinical Trials, announced that it has been awarded a contract to use their state-of-the-art smart phone technology to collect data from patients at home on electronic diaries in an upcoming large multinational clinical trial. The smart phone chosen for the trial will be an HTC Fuze, which looks similar to the Apple iPhone. It provides significant advantages over past electronic diary solutions based on Palm technology. Palm-based devices require patients to install, implement, and use a modem interface in their home on a daily basis to transfer the data from the device to a central data repository. Because patients participating in clinical trials often have significant other challenges, this requirement can be difficult and time-consuming for all clinical trial participants -- the patients, clinicians, and technology vendors. |  |
Benefits:
- assisTek’s smart phone product, the MobilePRO, eliminates much of the work and hassle associated with Palm devices.
- The smart phone transfers data automatically through cell phone networks using the SIM card inside the phone.
- This technological breakthrough will save countless hours of work in clinical trial data collection.
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