Setting a New Standard in Patient Screening for Clinical Trial Recruitment
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Despite advances in research, one stubborn challenge continues to delay clinical trials, strain budgets, and leave patients waiting: traditional, labor intensive patient recruitment.
The process is slow. Costly. Error-prone. And for recruitment teams, every misstep means missed milestones, wasted resources, and mounting frustration.
Reasons for clinical trial recruitment delays
Recruitment teams are stuck in outdated workflows – chasing charts, screening by hand, and requalifying patients who were never a true fit for the trial.
It’s no surprise that half of all candidates drop out due to basic eligibility mismatches.
- 1–3 business days per candidate are spent on interviews and questionnaires, delaying recruitment timelines by 1–3 months depending on trial size¹
- 27% of candidates are eliminated at the screening stage for not meeting basic criteria1
- Up to 80% of trials are delayed due to recruitment issues1
It’s not just timelines or budgets that suffer. Every delay means more time before life-changing treatments can reach the people who need them most.
From chasing to choosing: A smarter way to pre-screen
For too long, recruitment teams have operated without the full picture, relying on incomplete data, manual reviews, and referrals that don’t go anywhere.
Inovalon DataStream® Clinical Trial Eligibility Screener™ changes that.
This API-enabled solution automates eligibility checks using primary source data, connected directly to your trial’s inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Integrated easily into your existing recruitment platform, it delivers instant, criterion-level results for each candidate:
- Pass – Patient meets criteria
- Fail – Patient does not
- Inconclusive – More data needed
No guesswork. No delays. Just fast, data-backed answers you can trust.
Data that drives confident clinical trial recruitment
DataStream Clinical Trial Eligibility Screener delivers structured, trial-ready data, complete with mapped medical history. Its AI/ML-powered logic, checked by clinical experts, ensures every match is accurate, consistent, and actionable.
With this clarity, recruitment teams can:
- Find qualified candidates in seconds, not weeks
- Reduce screen failures and enrollment delays
- Improve protocol adherence and speed up clinical trial timelines
The result? Faster enrollment, lower costs, and clinical trial recruitment that runs on confidence – not guesswork.
The future of clinical trial recruitment
Manual screening methods can’t keep up with the pace and complexity of modern trials. DataStream Clinical Trial Eligibility Screener sets a new standard: One where workflows are smarter, timelines are shorter, and teams no longer waste time chasing charts or making blind referrals.
This is how successful trials begin – and how patients get access to therapies when they need them most.
Contact us to learn more about DataStream Clinical Trial Eligibility Screener and how it can transform your recruitment strategy.
1 “A Guide to Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials,” Elizabeth Mann, Clinical Leader, accessed April 2025, https://www.clinicalleader.com/topic/patient-recruitment-and-enrollment
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