eClinicalHealth Limited and Chilli Consultancy announced new streamlined clinical outcome assessment (COA) development services.
iUsability is a novel patient usability testing service. The Integrated Usability Service or iUsability streamlines the testing of patient reported outcomes (PRO) instruments and other clinical outcome assessment (COA) instruments when migrating from paper to electronic formats (ePRO). The iUsability service optimizes the usability of patient-facing eClinical solutions as well as capturing feedback from all trial stakeholders. Novel aspects of this service include a focus on “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) methods that allow patients to use their own existing devices to enter data, as well as the vendor- and device-agnostic approach, which allows the usability testing results to be shared with other companies in the industry.
“The iUsability service fills a void in the eCOA marketplace. Many people own multiple internet-enabled devices,” Kai Langel, Co-Founder and Director of Technology and Patient Solutions at eClinicalHealth said. “Allowing patients to use their choice of device is very important, it helps avoid compliance issues, reduces patient burden and saves our Sponsors tremendous amounts of money using a future-proof solution. With Integrated Usability Service, we can optimize design to capture the evidence that the instrument’s scientific integrity is maintained when compared to the paper version.”
Another new service jointly offered through eClinicalHealth and Chilli Consultancy is eValidatePRO is a remote approach for conducting psychometric validation studies for Clinical Outcomes Assessments (COA / eCOA).
“While the qualitative stages of instrument development are conducted in-person using in-depth interview methodologies with smaller samples of participants, the psychometric validation stage requires much larger populations to complete the new instruments to ensure statistical rigor,” Dr Annabel Nixon, Co-Founder and Director at Chilli Consultancy said. “Being able to do this remotely, in a quick and efficient manner, importantly decreases the time needed for instrument development. Using remote research for this stage of the instrument development is a real breakthrough in research methodology.”