Ancora: Innovative patient-centric platform that enables patients to find a life-saving treatment
Industry
Healthcare
Location
Zürich, Switzerland
Timeline
9 months
Ancora is a personalized clinical trial search tool that empowers patients in their search for potentially life-saving treatments. With its innovative features, Ancora allows patients to easily search for relevant clinical trials tailored to their specific needs.
The challenge
Development of an innovative patient-centric platform that enables patients to explore life-saving treatment options and seamlessly connect with trial providers for potential breakthroughs. By answering a short questionnaire, Ancora allows patients to find relevant clinical trials nearby, tailored to their specific needs. Clinical trials for various cancers and diseases are aggregated from around the web via various APIs and then converted to an easy-to-understand and readable format. The idea is to offer a personalized search experience that empowers patients to effortlessly find relevant clinical trials that align with their unique needs and preferences.
The solution
An easy-to-use web application that allows patients to look for relevant clinical trials in an easily searchable, personally tailored way. Ancora is a platform that supports clinical trials with innovative, powerful, and patient-friendly technology with a mission to find clinical trials, and information about them, including their location, duration, and information about treatment, and to enable patients to get into contact with the clinical trial provider potentially offering life-saving treatment.
Ancora is a simple and personalized clinical trial search tool aimed to enable patients to search the nearest clinical trials and give them a chance to try innovative treatments depending on their condition. Using patient location and condition as a starting point enables a quick search to get the first results within seconds. The patient is offered a list of relevant trials depending on the trial phase, trial type, treatment type, and recruiting status. Numerous filters help patients shorten the search to get better results, change the distance, and even view clinical trial centers on a map. With the additional option to fill out a questionnaire, patients can find the most relevant trials by answering a set of questions about their general health, medical condition, and previous treatments. All the parameters are used to find matching results within the collections of data aggregated from around the world and converted to an easy-to-understand and readable format.
Personalized Patient-Centric Search Experience
By seamlessly integrating patient preferences with key parameters, such as location and trial phase, Ancora accelerates the search process and identifies the most relevant results. Combining technology and user-centered design, the platform streamlines patient search and makes the experience intuitive and user-friendly.
Ancora’s mission is to empower every patient to understand and have access to clinical research, as well as to support them throughout the clinical trial journey.
As the main goal of this tool, users can connect to their chosen trial and get access to the latest treatments in a few clicks. They can also track their progress toward enrollment on the dashboard. Patients are informed about every stage of the enrollment from reaching the team and initial discussion to final decision making. The dashboard enables users to share trials with others, bookmark the most interesting results (individual trials or saved search), and see trial updates. They can choose between different types of notifications to get updates and email alerts like weekly updates on new trials in searches, weekly updates on saved trials, new educational resources, and updates on new features. With additional options like a glossary and FAQ, patients can find all the information to learn more about clinical trials, find out the latest news from clinical research, and get details about treatments from other patient experiences.
