Method and apparatus for management of clinical trials
First Claim
1. A system for monitoring medication adherence in one or more clinical trials, comprising a computer configured to provide:
- a summary page providing an overview of each clinical trial participant in a graphical format, each clinical trial participant being represented by a unique clinical trial participant identifier, each clinical trial participant identifier able to be grouped according to one or more attributes of the clinical trial participant;
a plurality of clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applicable to modify one or more of the clinical trial participant identifiers in the summary view, each modifier indicative of a different status of the particular participant as represented by their identifier to which it is applied, at least one modifier including an indication of a level of medication adherence of each clinical trial participant; and
a zoom selector for zooming in on a subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers included with the summary page;
wherein, upon zooming using the zoom selector, a corresponding amount of detailed information related to the subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers is provided;
the detailed information including at least an indication of a plurality of different methods through which medication adherence has been confirmed and an indication of at least a proportion of medication adherence confirmations that have been performed by each of the plurality of different methods, at least two of the plurality of different methods being selected from the group of a real-time automated video activity sequence recognition by a computing device employing computer vision of one or more medication administration instances performed by each of the one or more clinical trial participants, a third party confirmation by voice and a self reported confirmation reported by the clinical trial participant.
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Abstract
A system and method of a clinical trial is provided. The system comprises a summary page providing an overview of each clinical trial participant in a graphical format, each clinical trial participant being represented by a unique clinical trial participant identifier and one or more clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applicable to modify one or more of the clinical trial participant identifiers, each modifier indicative of a different status of the particular participant identifier to which it is applied. A zoom selector is provided for zooming in on a subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers included with the summary page. Upon selection of a particular level of zoom, a corresponding amount of detailed information related to the subset of the clinical trial identifiers is provided; the detailed information including at least an indication of the level of compliance of a clinical trial participant to a prescribed clinical trial protocol represented by a corresponding clinical trial participant identifier, and further information related to any particular clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applied to any one of the clinical trial participant identifiers included within the subset.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for monitoring medication adherence in one or more clinical trials, comprising a computer configured to provide:
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a summary page providing an overview of each clinical trial participant in a graphical format, each clinical trial participant being represented by a unique clinical trial participant identifier, each clinical trial participant identifier able to be grouped according to one or more attributes of the clinical trial participant; a plurality of clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applicable to modify one or more of the clinical trial participant identifiers in the summary view, each modifier indicative of a different status of the particular participant as represented by their identifier to which it is applied, at least one modifier including an indication of a level of medication adherence of each clinical trial participant; and a zoom selector for zooming in on a subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers included with the summary page; wherein, upon zooming using the zoom selector, a corresponding amount of detailed information related to the subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers is provided;
the detailed information including at least an indication of a plurality of different methods through which medication adherence has been confirmed and an indication of at least a proportion of medication adherence confirmations that have been performed by each of the plurality of different methods, at least two of the plurality of different methods being selected from the group of a real-time automated video activity sequence recognition by a computing device employing computer vision of one or more medication administration instances performed by each of the one or more clinical trial participants, a third party confirmation by voice and a self reported confirmation reported by the clinical trial participant. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for monitoring participant medication adherence in one or more clinical trials, comprising the steps of:
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displaying, on a display, a summary page depicting an overview of each clinical trial participant in a graphical format, each clinical trial participant being represented by a unique clinical trial participant identifier, each clinical trial participant indicator able to be grouped according to one or more attributes of the clinical trial participant; designating on the display one or more clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applicable to modify one or more of the clinical trial participant identifiers in the summary view, each modifier indicative of a different status of the particular participant as represented by their identifier to which it is applied, at least one modifier including an indication of a level of adherence of each clinical trial participant; zooming in on the display on a subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers included with the summary page; and displaying, on the display upon zooming using the zoom selector, a corresponding amount of detailed information related to the subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers;
the detailed information including at least an indication of a plurality of different methods through which medication adherence has been confirmed and an indication of at least a proportion of medication adherence confirmations that have been performed by each of the plurality of different methods, at least two of the plurality of different methods being selected from the group of a real-time automated video activity sequence recognition by a computer processor employing computer vision of one or more medication administration instances performed by each of the one or more clinical trial participants, a third party confirmation by voice and a self reported confirmation reported by the clinical trial participant employing one or more touch reporting elements to answer one or more questions displayed on the display. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for monitoring medication adherence in one or more patients, comprising a computer configured to provide:
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a summary page providing an overview of each patient in a graphical format, each patient being represented by a unique patent identifier, each patient identifier able to be grouped according to one or more attributes of the patient; a plurality of patient identifier modifiers applicable to modify one or more of the patient identifiers in the summary view, each modifier indicative of a different status of the particular patient as represented by their identifier to which it is applied, at least one modifier including an indication of a level of adherence of each patient; a zoom selector for zooming in on a subset of the patient identifiers included with the summary page; and wherein, upon zooming using the zoom selector, a corresponding amount of detailed information related to the subset of the patient identifiers is provided;
the detailed information including at least an indication of a plurality of different methods through which medication adherence has been confirmed and at least an indication of at least a proportion of medication adherence confirmations that have been performed by each of the plurality of different methods, at least two of the plurality of one of these methods being selected from the group of a real-time automated video activity sequence recognition by a computing device employing computer vision of the one or more medication administration instances performed by each of the one or more patients, a third party confirmation by voice and a self reported confirmation reported by the patient. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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