Anaqua’s ideaPoint announced a strategic partnership with clinical data company WideTrial to facilitate greater access to investigational medicines for physicians and patients dealing with COVID-19 worldwide.
The project’s objective is to establish a single centralized hub through which creators of potentially effective COVID-19 therapeutics can make their products available to large numbers of people under applicable Expanded Access regulations. Expanded Access Programs (EAPs) are specially authorized clinical trials for the “treatment-use” of pre-market products by patients and their doctors who cannot participate in research trials. The new platform is designed to allow interested healthcare providers (including non-traditional trial sites, community hospitals, and clinics) to sign up online to participate in the EAPs of their choice.
ideaPoint has delivered physician engagement and clinical data collaboration tools in several therapeutic areas including Immuno-Inflammation, Infectious Disease, Oncology, HIV/AIDS, Respiratory, Vaccines and Rare Diseases through global EAPs for large and mid-size pharmaceutical companies.
“With our expertise in providing software to manage and track all aspects of a global EAP and WideTrial’s clinical operations and regulatory expertise, we hope to help and support companies with potentially promising investigational medicines to fight COVID-19 and make medicines available to large portions of the global patient population as quickly as possible,” said Scott Shaunessy, Founder and CEO of ideaPoint. “We have combined forces to offer a unified resource for rapid deployment of an EAP.”
“As a global company, we deeply understand and are committed to supporting initiatives that may alleviate the effect of this pandemic worldwide. Putting people’s health first, we want to support our global pharmaceutical clients and other pharmaceutical companies in our collective efforts to urgently fight COVID-19 through supporting this modernized Expanded Access solution,” Bob Romeo, CEO of Anaqua, said.