PicnicHealth launches PicnicStudies for direct-to-patient real-world registry-based studies

PicnicHealth introduces PicnicStudies, a new patient-centric complete solution for efficient real-world registry-based studies. Direct-to-patient capture of comprehensive medical records and patient-reported health data significantly expands source data for potent real-world evidence (RWE) generation.

PicnicHealth, a patient-centered healthcare evidence generation company, has announced the launch of PicnicStudies, a new direct-to-patient complete solution for real-world registry-based studies. PicnicStudies’ streamlined capture of comprehensive medical records and patient-reported outcomes significantly expands source data compared to traditional site-based studies, empowering RWE generation in efficient, swift and cost-effective studies.

“The voice of the patient has never been more important as we face a myriad of expensive treatments with unclear real-world benefits and an overburdened health system. Observational studies traditionally are designed to collect a sliver of patient data from their routine healthcare interactions, with the patients’ lived experience at secondary relevance – at best. True patient-centered research captures patients’ full experience, bringing better clarity to understanding treatment benefits and risks,” says Nancy Dreyer, Chief Scientific Advisor at PicnicHealth, in exclusive conversation with The Evidence Base. “PicnicStudies runs studies that systematically capture both comprehensive medical records and patient-reported health data, bringing a more complete view to researchers.”

The innovative patient-centric approach of the PicnicStudies platform, which features surveys on patient-reported outcomes, facilitates seamless garnering of extensive patient-reported health data, valuable real-world data to synergistically incorporate into analyses. The direct-to-patient interface also enables engagement with individuals for study enrolment and to collect regulatory-grade data from all their healthcare interactions both retrospectively and prospectively over their healthcare journey, encompassing medical records, images and claims etc.

“By working directly with patients to enrol them into studies, we are able to identify and collect data from all of their previous and future sites of care,” said Noga Leviner, CEO and co-founder of PicnicHealth. “This enables us to unlock radically broader data for stronger evidence generation.”

PicnicStudies’ virtual site capabilities give access to a vast, diverse patient population, and can be used on their own, or in conjunction with physical sites, to start studies quickly and create a frictionless experience for participants. The platform supports registry-based studies across the drug development lifecycle, including natural history studies, real-world safety and effectiveness studies, and post-marketing requirements. Its broad source data collection confers the ability to explore fresh inquiries on established datasets through iterative study design, a process that historically would cost pharmaceutical companies years of time.

This PicnicHealth novel patient-centric approach to designing and executing effective registry-based studies through PicnicStudies leads the way in empowering RWE generation in true patient-centered research and in advancing potentially transformative discoveries.