Remarque Systems: Consolidating Patient Data for Better Clinical Trials

One of the major challenges that plague the clinical trial ecosystem is its immense data repository and a shortage of effective solutions that aggregate them at one place. It becomes extremely difficult for organizations to sift through a pile of systems in order to gain valuable insights from data, which in turn reduces the pace of clinical trials and the efficiency. Mike Arlotto—a technology evangelist and an entrepreneur—sought to put an end to these issues, and with that vision, he founded the NC-based firm Remarque Systems in 2015. “We have the expertise in collecting data from multiple sources and presenting it in a single view to our customers,” begins Arlotto, founder, Remarque Systems. He continues, “Our solutions can aggregate data from electronic data capture and clinical trial management systems as well as laboratory and EMR systems while consolidating them on a single user interface.”

By leveraging data analytics along with AI and machine learning, Remarque Systems’ comprehensive quality management solutions visualize and cluster patient data. This helps in identifying outliers and missing data. Remarque Systems’ AI acts as a recommendation engine to identify trends in the clinical trial ecosystem. The firm uses a distance algorithm that aggregates and analyzes data to cluster patients, thereby bringing all clinical trial participants under one umbrella. “The most important aspect of a quality management system is the quality design process built into it. Our solutions allow organizations to work through the systems, identify patient safety and quality related risks, and assist in mitigating them,” explains Arlotto. In addition, Remarque Systems’ solutions alert the clinical trial monitors in case they find any aberrations in patients’ normal body functions, facilitating safety and enhancing clinical trial participation. “The unique selling point of our solutions is the combination of business intelligence tools and a true operating system. Our solutions have the ability to generate actionable insights of clinical trial data,” Arlotto adds.

Remarque Systems also houses a wide range of cloud-based libraries of APIs that can be easily integrated with most of the EDC and clinical trial management systems.