Healthcare technology firm Seqster has introduced a new version of its service that aims to help pharma companies work with patients’ data while on virtual clinical trials.
Seqster announced the new version of its platform had been launched on the Microsoft Azure cloud at the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.
The new Seqster 7.1 service will allow secure access to real-world data from electronic health records (EHRs), DNA analysis and fitness wearables.
However, the company’s head of strategic business development Parsi Parsinejad said that the system is differentiated from competitors by its focus on putting patients in control of their data.
By making pharma companies sign data use agreements directly with the patient, Seqster says it has been able to create a platform that allows patients to create a one-point login they can control many forms of US health data.
This can range from health records to ancestry data, allowing patients to track their data in a similar way that the Mint budget tracker allows people to control their expenditure.
The platform is FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliant enabling secure delivery of EHR documents directly to regulated clinical trial management systems and allowing eConsent-based visualisation of participants’ data.
Parsinejad told pharmaphorum in an interview: “You have been seeing a proliferation of cloud services. They are introducing a cloud-based service and industry specific applications.
“What Seqster does for pharma clinical trials is it brings together in real time a health record for participants. Patients can bring together their data wherever it resides.”
He added the tool could be used to help run virtual trials, which have become increasingly common due to the shift towards electronic technology in healthcare because of the pandemic.
The data gathered can be used as the basis for filings with the FDA, although for now the system works only with data gathered by US-based services.
The company adds that it has split data into two silos to prevent hackers from using it in the unlikely event of a breach.
Parsinejad said: “It’s highly secure, 256 bit encryption the same as Azure. Patient identified data is in a separate container from health data. If there is a breach they would not be able to make sense of the data.”
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