Deep 6 AI Uses AWS to Accelerate and Digitize Clinical Trial Design and Recruitment Workflows

Clinical trials face an array of challenges, from designing effective protocols to recruiting eligible participants and handling data workflows.

Deep 6 AI built a clinical trials acceleration software platform—a real-time, real-world data ecosystem that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to help clinical trials become more digital, collaborative, competitive, agile, virtual, cloud based, and driven by data and performance. By applying modern technology to clinical data, Deep 6 AI’s goal is to help move clinical trials forward more quickly and efficiently.

Building on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Deep 6 AI is an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN). “What we have seen by partnering with AWS is that we could basically construct a federated system where we can have multiple academic medical centers, smaller trial sites, sponsors, and CROs all act and share workflows on a common data infrastructure,” says Wout Brusselaers, CEO and founder of Deep 6 AI. Deep 6 AI has been able to partner with AWS to secure its platform in a way that allows these different industry players to use patient data while maintaining high levels of data privacy and security.

Cedars-Sinai hospital demonstrated the recruiting and overall productivity benefits of using Deep 6 AI software. One nationwide study attempting to recruit more than 2,500 patients in about two-and-a-half years expanded its sites after struggling to recruit during the first year. In the six months after Cedars Sinai—which was using Deep 6 AI software—became a site, it had recruited about two-thirds of the new patients recruited by all 29 sites. Also at Cedars Sinai, a clinical research consultant, who was able to complete one study in 2017, worked with three newly hired recruiters to complete 30 studies in 2019 after gaining access to Deep 6 AI software.