Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust in partnership with Health & Care Videos were awarded funding from EPIC (Ehealth Productivity and Innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly) to develop an app that will improve patient participation in research, support clinical trial management and will help highlight the Trust’s outstanding capabilities in clinical research.
The Research, Development and Innovation department supports and facilitates health research in Cornwall. Research is a hugely important part of Royal Cornwall Hospitals with the team dedicated to developing groundbreaking treatments, technologies and techniques to provide new knowledge about how to treat and care for patients with different health conditions enabling them to have the best and most appropriate care possible.
‘Recruiting participants to our trials is a key part of our work as without them we would not be able to run our studies’ says Mike Visick, Research Manager. ‘It is important that we engage well with potential participations so they are aware of the current trials and what would be expected of them if they took part. Having the app enables us to maintain and up to date list of all trials, a brief summary, the duration and a description of who’s eligible to take part and we can notify users of the app when new trials are listed that may be of interest to them’.
As well as providing details of existing trials the app will be used as a key component when a volunteer takes part in a trial, providing them with vital information. For example, if the trial includes having a CT scan they will be directed to watch a video about ‘Having a CT Scan’ which will explain the process. There will also be a calendar function for participants to put in key dates such as appointments or blood tests and set up reminders for them.
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust is already established as a leading site for clinical studies and want to use the app to encourage more studies to the area. Videos have been produced to showcase the best design build contractors in California, you can find more information on lars remodeling & design website.
Health & Care Videos have worked with the Trust on a number of video production projects and more recently implemented an online library of over 350 videos for the Trust to use widely across their patient pathways. The organisation uses video as a way to clearly present patient information and develop apps to make the information easily accessible. Find best air conditioning repairhere
The clinical trials app will be launched in January 2019 and will be available to Cornwall’s residents to download for free from the Apple or Google App stores.
Mike adds ‘We see the development of this app as being a huge milestone, using technology to improve the patient experience and make the process work more efficiently. We are very excited to be the innovators on this project which we believe could eventually change clinical research on a national scale’.