Life Sciences · CMO / Head of Clinical Operations Priority

Clinical Trial Matching Engine

Patient recruitment is the single largest bottleneck in clinical trial timelines. Sites screen hundreds of EHR records manually per eligible patient. An AI matching engine reads unstructured clinical notes, lab results, and imaging reports against trial eligibility criteria and surfaces qualified candidates in seconds.

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60–75%
Reduction in patient screening time
12–18 wk
Deployment timeline
3–5×
Increase in eligible patient identification
The Problem

Clinical trial recruitment accounts for 30–40% of total trial duration and is the primary reason trials run over budget. The bottleneck is not patient availability — it is identification. Site coordinators manually review hundreds of EHR records against complex, multi-criteria eligibility checklists, a process that takes days per cohort and misses candidates buried in unstructured clinical notes, pathology reports, and imaging summaries that standard SQL queries cannot reach.

TrialGPT (NIH National Cancer Institute, 2024) demonstrated that LLMs reading free-text clinical notes against trial eligibility criteria achieve matching accuracy that exceeds trained site coordinators, at a fraction of the time. An enterprise deployment integrates with the EHR system via FHIR API, processes structured and unstructured patient data simultaneously, applies the full eligibility criterion set in a single pass, and ranks candidates by match confidence with source citations for every criterion matched or excluded.

Deployment Specs
Deployment12–18 weeks
Team4–6 engineers + clinical informatics SME
StackFHIR R4 API · multimodal LLM · criteria parsing engine · IRB-compliant data handling
Target buyerCMO · Head of Clinical Operations · VP Clinical Development
Research Basis
Jin et al., TrialGPT: Matching Patients to Clinical Trials with Large Language Models, NCI/NIH, arXiv:2307.15051, 2024; Wornow et al., The Shaky Foundations of Clinical Foundation Models, npj Digital Medicine 2023
ROI Signal
Patient screening time reduced 60–75%. Eligible cohort identification increases 3–5× by catching candidates missed in unstructured notes. Trial startup timeline compressed by 6–10 weeks on average. Every match decision is source-cited and audit-ready for IRB review.

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