DURHAM – Pattern Health’s adherence platform can help more than improve individual care. Its tech has also shown use for researchers by helping eliminate the critical costs that can arise in trial studies.
Around 40 percent of patients become non-adherent to the studied product after 150 days in a clinical trial, according to an analysis from Applied Clinical Trials. This, in turn, causes data variability and prompts the need for more patients to be enrolled in the study—thus, impacting the overall costs and duration of the research.
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The way to offset these costs is ensuring the study participants are consistently engaged—a service that’s part of Pattern Health’s main mission. As healthcare specialists and researchers use Pattern Health to collect evidence of patient care trends and improvements, they can also monitor how the platform is being used.
Pattern Health helps researchers keep track of participants’ progress and engagement. Copyright: Pattern Health
In addition, Pattern Health gives innovators in the healthcare industry the opportunity to use the tools to develop their own patterns and projects.This eliminates the time and money that would be required to make their own apps—pre-launch development can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, leaving smaller developers struggling to outpace competitors that are backed by larger institutions.
Barber compares Pattern Health’s library of innovator tools to the Apple App Store model, which recognized that not everything can be optimized through one central system for every app. Instead of only selling proprietary Apple-built apps, the company created a distribution channel for existing developers’ apps.
Pattern Health serves the same purpose for healthcare developers to create and prescribe their own customized patterns.
Pattern Health’s 2.0 version, which was rolled out earlier this year, expanded the suite of tools so innovators could get their patterns up and running. The platform offers support for condition-specific activity scheduling, comprehensive educational content and behavioral interventions.
