As the life sciences landscape continues to evolve rapidly, the ability to conduct highly efficient yet deeply insightful and reliable research is crucial.

PicnicHealth is specifically designed to address the shortcomings of traditional observational study approaches. These methods often struggle with inefficient patient recruitment, low site participation, inflexible protocols,  limited data sources, and high participant dropout rates. They are typically restricted to site-based data collection, which can miss critical aspects of a patient's healthcare journey, such as encounters with other specialists, emergency visits, and inpatient hospitalizations. This narrow focus not only introduces biases but also limits the comprehensiveness and longitudinality of the data, restricting insights into healthcare resource utilization, safety, and effectiveness.

PicnicHealth is simplifying observational research. Through a combination of a novel direct-to-patient approach and leading AI technology, PicnicHealth is making more efficient and comprehensive observational research a reality. It optimizes patient, provider, and sponsor experiences and yields more precise research outcomes. By cutting through the many inefficient layers and systems that burden traditional observational research, PicnicHealth helps life science companies meet study endpoints faster and with full transparency.

How PicnicHealth Works

PicnicHealth simplifies and streamlines every step of the observational research process. From patient enrollment to real-time data management, PicnicHealth ensures that observational research is efficient and highly effective. 

Here's how it works:

• We start with a consented patient: PicnicHealth engages directly with patients to obtain their consent and enroll them into a study. Patients can easily participate in studies from the comfort of their homes, beginning with an  enrollment process that takes less than ten minutes. Participants are also provided access to a patient portal, where they can see a curated view of their complete medical records and can easily complete electronic patient reported outcomes surveys (ePROs). This approach enhances patient engagement and retention, with PicnicHealth achieving a 98% year-over-year retention rate.‍
• We collect the full medical record - across all sites of care: PicnicHealth's technology retrieves medical records from every care site patients visit, retrospectively and prospectively. Since we have a direct relationship to consented patients, we are also able to reach back out to patients and their caregivers to administer ePROs, electronic Clinical Reported Outcomes surveys (eClinROs), and electronic Observer Reported Outcomes (eObsROs), as well as collect biometric data.‍
• We let you tailor and track data in real-time: The platform uses proprietary AI, trained on over 32 million records, to extract and clean the data. This process is augmented by world-class clinical expert verification and automated checks, ensuring the data's accuracy and reliability for analysis. PicnicHealth curates the data specifically for each unique study and lets sponsors and researchers track progress through a centralized study management system. This real-time monitoring is crucial for adaptive research design and timely decision-making.

Why use PicnicHealth?

• Greater efficiency and speed: PicnicHealth streamlines recruitment, data curation, and study management through a single adaptable platform, and completely eliminates the need to activate physical sites. It is 30-50% more cost-effective than a traditional site-based model. With PicnicHealth, you get faster results and can easily stay on top of your research timelines. PicnicHealth can take your observational study from kick-off to FPI in less than 30 days.‍
• Direct connection to patients: Researchers receive a holistic view of each patient's health journey, capturing longitudinal data from every healthcare visit and patient- and caregiver-generated data. On average, PicnicHealth collects data from 10 unique care sites per patient– letting you capture the patient experience in unprecedented detail. Data generated using PicnicHealth has led to 50+ publications since 2020.‍
• Greater insights and flexibility: To improve study execution, life sciences companies can access real-time study progress and preliminary data for variables of interest, such as drug switches. They can also track patient representation, screening fails and overall improvement. This – along with PicnicHealth’s constant access to source data, enables researchers to adapt their studies at any time. PicnicHealth’s centralized study management system suitable for both virtual and hybrid study types.‍
• Engaged, diverse patients: Patients benefit from the greater transparency and resources that PicnicHealth delivers over traditional research methods. Patients get an easily digestible view of their complete medical history and study tasks in one place– the patient portal. By providing value back to patients, PicnicHealth has an average 98% patient retention rate in its studies.

Use cases

PicnicHealth's adaptability makes it ideal for a wide array of observational research types, including natural history, disease progression, burden of disease, real-world effectiveness and safety, treatment patterns, and longitudinal studies. It can be used across various conditions and therapeutic areas, from autoimmune disorders, to neurology, oncology, rare diseases, and more.

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PicnicHealth is the partner of choice for life sciences companies seeking to leverage cutting-edge technology and patient-centric data in observational research.