ConsentSolutions, Inc. Invited to Present at Tech Ventures Conference, February 21 2007
ConsentSolutions™ invited to present at Tech Ventures, a venture fair for early-stage technology companies in the Washington DC area. ConsentSolutions staff will present their unique approach to subject consent for clinical trial participation.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) February 17, 2007
ConsentSolutions™ invited to present at Tech Ventures, a venture fair for early-stage technology companies in the Washington DC area. ConsentSolutions staff will present their unique approach to subject consent for clinical trial participation.
ConsentSolutions™ provides client support and software solutions to the problem of obtaining and tracking informed consent for clinical trail participation. The back office provides a user-friendly dashboard for tracking the consenting process across trials, sites and candidates. The software is available for institutional licensing and as an ASP solution. ConsentSolutions, Inc President and CEO, Susan Brink, presented the company vision of a 21st century multimedia platform for educating potential trial candidates and assuring their understanding of the trial, while working with sponsors and trial staff to assure optimum presentation of trial information.
ConsentSolutions™ facilitates clinical trial sponsors, research organizations and investigators in the development of clinical trial informed consent documents and provides qualified potential clinical trial subjects with an online, interactive informed consent that is supplemented with media-enhanced medical explanations, self-assessment questions to test understanding, personal values assessment and decision-making tools.
ConsentSolutions™ provides:
a customized approach to the production of multimedia consent documents for approval by Institutional Review Boards SecureConsent™ an enhanced multimedia consent that meets the information and decision needs of potential clinical trial subjects changes, updates, and subject approvals for ongoing clinical trial protocols in an efficient and timely manner audio-visual presentations in multiple languages tracking and verification of subjects' date, time, and use data text and narrative in multiple languages consistent presentation of information across the entire subject base email links between investigator and subjects for updates and questions
Studies indicate that multimedia-enhanced informed consent increase enrollment by 50%, increase participant retention by 35%, increase subject understanding by 40%, and require significantly less researcher time per enrolled subject. In an initial head-to-head comparison by adult volunteers, SecureConsent™, computer-based format was found to be more comprehensible and accessible than the same trial consent in paper format. The additional educational materials and interactive decision tools were seen as advantages of the computer-based format over the same information in a paper-based format.
About ConsentSolutions, Inc.
Founded in 2005 and based in Frederick, Maryland, our innovative approach to improving the consent process is winning acclaim from practitioners and patients alike. ConsentSolutions, Inc.'s senior management team has decades of combined experience in specialized health communications, interactive design and programming, and optimized web applications, as well as extensive hands-on experience delivering media based educational and decision-support materials for patients. ConsentSolutions, Inc's initial product SecureConsent™ was launched in June 2006. ConsentSolutions, inc is focused on supporting trial staff and developing interactive, user-friendly software and websites that help candidates and patients make understand and make an informed decision about clinical trial participation.
About Tech Ventures
Tech Ventures 2007 is a venture fair for early-stage technology companies, that brings together companies with new ideas and business concepts with sources of capital and provides that type of networking opportunity that can put an early stage company on the path to success. This unique venue was conceived by Corporate Finance, Inc., Artemis Technology Fund and Bartholdi Partners, LLC as an outgrowth of the TIA Ventures Series initiated by two of the group's members.
For information contact:
Susan Brink, President & CEO
ConsentSolutions, Inc.
1828 L Street, NW'
Washington DC, 20036
Tel: 202-448-6150
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