Earning Their Trust: Challenges and Best Practices in Rare Disease Patient Recruitment

Trialbee CEO Matt Walz explores the current impact of AI in delivering practical gains in clinical development and reflects on its future potential, where enrollment predictability may be the biggest prize of all.

A biomarker test now decides who enters a precision medicine trial, yet results often go unused and assays are not ready when screening opens.

Hierarchical composite endpoints analyzed through pairwise comparisons more accurately reflect multifaceted treatment benefit than time-to-first-event composites, but transparent outcome prioritization, patient involvement in ranking, and reporting of Net Treatment Benefit remain underutilized despite their importance to interpretation.

In this Q&A, Andrea Valente, CEO of uMotif, discusses what it takes to build genuine trust between patients and sites, why making technology easier to use isn't the same as making patient-site interaction more effective, and where the industry is still falling short in its push toward patient-centered trial design.