Pharmaceutical companies and sponsors of clinical research look to hospital networks and
research sites, large and small, in search of eligible candidates to participate in their clinical
trials. For healthcare and research organizations, it represents an opportunity to contribute to
bringing new lifesaving medications to market. Participation can also be a significant driver of
revenue. For both reasons, it is sensible for these organizations to review as many protocols as
possible.

But doing so can consume significant time and resources, particularly as the complexity of trial
protocols has increased. Sifting through EMR databases and patient charts to find candidates
who meet the numerous inclusion and exclusion criteria of each study can stretch already
resource-constrained organizations.

BEKHealth’s Galileo is the solution to the challenges of conducting manual and laborious
patient count feasibility surveys.

Launched last year, Galileo is a trial feasibility solution that gives any healthcare professional,
with minimal training, the ability to run network searches and determine whether to take on an
incoming clinical trial opportunity. By ingesting unstructured EMR data and translating it into
language and clinical terminology used in protocols, the solution looks across an entire patient
network and across all sites, ultimately reducing the time it takes to conduct a feasibility study
from weeks to real-time.

BEKHealth has recently unveiled several significant enhancements to Galileo, starting with a
global heatmap that visually depicts the locations of available patients across the entire
provider network. In addition to conducting searches at the main hospital or research level,
Galileo can now delve deeper into the network to find patients at satellite offices, departments,
and even offices of affiliated physicians. This new capability gives larger healthcare systems a
more granular view of their patient populations.

The BEKHealth clinical library and research ontology has been expanded to include more
diagnoses, medications, procedures, lab tests, and clinical observations from patient charts,
deepening Galileo’s ability to capture unstructured data within medical records. Finally,
BEKHealth has improved the overall performance of the solution to accelerate turnaround time
of studies and enable large hospital networks to run searches with larger data sets.

Ultimately, the enhanced Galileo makes it even easier for hospital networks and research sites
to participate in medical research and reap the financial benefits without investing inordinate
amounts of time and resources.