Eugene Woods, Chief Executive Officer at Advocate Health and President and CEO at Atrium Health, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Clinical trials are like bridges to the future of medicine – yet only 5% of eligible patients get to cross them. We aim to change that. Today, we’re launching the Advocate Health National Center for Clinical Trials, a first-of-its-kind solution to democratize access to the latest clinical trials and breakthrough treatments.
Powered by Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the National Center for Clinical Trials will allow us to partner with innovators to seamlessly embed the latest research into care delivery across our footprint. We already have a strong legacy of research and clinical trial excellence, but this new era will create the largest, most inclusive clinical trial network in the country, reaching nearly six million patients from our most urban hospitals to our most rural clinics.
We’ll use AI to help match eligible patients faster. We’ll have clinicians build trials into their regular workflows, so that the latest treatments are part of the standard of care. And we’ll have a centralized infrastructure, including utilizing our single institutional review board, so that innovators within and outside our system can accelerate discoveries with less bureaucracy.
Thank you to our incredible team for helping reach this milestone today. In the years ahead, we’ll be able to share the stories of patients whose lives were changed because of breakthroughs that reach them through the Advocate Health National Center for Clinical Trials. And to our current and future partners: thank you for helping us redefine health care, for all.”
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