Thread teams with Amazon to add AI to decentralized trial tech
Thread says partnering with Amazon web services will enhance its decentralized clinical trial (DCT) technology.
North Carolina-based Thread teamed with Amazon’s web services arm last month, explaining the partnership would add machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can automate processes for drug firms and CROs that use the platform.
According to Thread the new features will accelerate clinical research by reducing inefficiencies in real-time data capture, auto-populating data workflows that are current completed manually.
Specifically, Thread claimed the AI and ML tech will reduce trial start-up time by 30% and generate cost savings of up to 25%. The firm also claimed the enhancements will let users monitor studies more precisely by providing access to performance data in real time.
CEO John Reites said, “In collaboration with Amazon Web Services, we are further scaling our DCT platform with next-level automation, AI/ML offerings, and optimized features focused to meet the evolving needs of our customers, research sites, and participants.”
Scott Pearson, chief product officer at Thread, also stressed the benefits of the collaboration, describing the incorporation of AI and ML technologies as the “future of modern research.”
"By combining Thread’s advanced DCT platform with the security, scale, and agility of AWS's cloud and machine learning technology expertise, we are empowering our customers to automate data capture and storage and at the same time providing predictive forecasts to better run studies and decrease the time it takes to conduct research."
Decentralized trial business
The partnership follows just a few months after Thread bought voice research technology developer inVibe in a move which, like the AWS partnership, was designed to expand the firm’s decentralized trials business.
A few months before that Thread acquired trial consultancy group Modus Outcomes, also citing the expansion of its decentralized research business as the prompt for the deal.
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