The platform collates and shares patient outcomes to determine ‘Standard Sets’, designed to help healthcare providers better understand how to measure outcomes of specific treatment interventions.
“The key is that healthcare providers who own their data, the platform, have access to their data and analysis, will be able to give input in protocols and endpoints that are meaningful to patients and can adjust treatment plans to the benefit of their patients,” said Icon CEO Steve Cutler.
Contract research organisation (CRO) ICON, who is responsible for collecting, storing, aggregating and providing the data back to the participants, said the platform will enhance clinical development.
“The measurement and sharing of outcomes will ultimately improve the clinical development process by enabling better protocols that will lead to the development of treatments that will be of most benefit to patients,” said Cutler.
The services firm said it had collected data from 70 healthcare facilities and developed risk-adjustment algorithms based on more than 75,000 procedures.
“Built into the platform are benchmarking capabilities for hip and knee osteoarthritis and cataracts with three additional conditions being developed throughout 2018 for release by the end of the year,” Cutler told us.
Global data
According to Cutler, unlike other services on the market, the Globe platform is designed to collate data from providers worldwide.
“The architecture of the platform enables the consumption of data from geographically, culturally, procedurally and administratively diverse healthcare providers,” he said.
The pilot platform is hosted within Icon’s primary data centre, located in Europe, and will open to participants in Q1 2018.