Home Health: Best Practices and Processes to Build Confidence in the Value of In-Home Services

In-home services are proving to be of true value in clinical research, improving patient recruitment by reducing patient burden and reaching more diverse patient populations. While looking to the future of clinical trials and shifting the paradigm to make them more patient-centric and efficient, home health and home-based services promise to be an important component in delivering on this mission.

But not everyone is convinced. Investigators may be concerned about losing the relationship with the patient due to less face-to-face contact, site staff may be worried about dealing with changes in process and different technologies and internal study stakeholders may be tempted to revert to more traditional models.

In this webinar, the featured speaker explores the challenges and concerns of key stakeholders and how to overcome these with tried and trusted methods to deliver the best experience and outcomes for patients, while keeping trials on-track.

Attendees will learn the following during the webinar:

Building the case for in-home services in the clinical trial:

• Decreasing burden on the patient with optionality
• The ripple effect — with supplemental hidden benefits — on family, caregivers
• Therapeutic areas particularly relevant for services
• Diversity in patient populations

Patient-centric protocol design:

• What to consider at the outset of the trial to minimise disruption, delays and protocol amendments

Increasing site support for successful operations and positive relations:

• Communication and training planning to support sites
• Connecting in-home healthcare professionals with site staff
• Ensuring transparency for investigator oversight and connection

Measuring success:

• Metrics to put in place to measure utilisation and report on outcomes

• • Patient retention
  • Patient recruitment
  • Diversity & inclusion

Register to learn the best practices and processes to build confidence in the value of home health services.

Speaker

Ashmee Bharadia, Vice President for Accellacare In Home Services, part of ICON plc

Ashmee Bharadia is Vice President for Accellacare In Home Services, part of ICON plc. She joined ICON in 2011, working with the largest strategic account in various project management roles and as a Clinical Program Manager for cardiovascular clinical trials. Ashmee started her career in progressive roles from CRA to project management across Sanofi Aventis, Schering Plough, Novartis and Amgen covering respiratory, immunology, infectious disease, dermatology and neurology.

In 2016, Ashmee held a leadership position with a small CRO focused on developing the project management group and gained experience working with innovative start up and biotech companies. Ashmee also established a new group focused on strategic business optimisation, technology implementation and global process improvements working with the corporate and operational leadership.

Ashmee holds qualifications in lean six sigma and change management, and a BSc (Hons) in pharmaceutical chemistry from Queen Mary, University of London.

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