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Welcome to Voluntas
Patients should have
better tools to engage
with research
80% of clinical trials do not enroll a sufficient number of patients in a timely manner. Companies sponsoring research spend a great deal on recruitment – on average it costs over $6,500 to recruit a patient to a trial.
Despite the importance of this recruitment problem, many patients who might benefit have no easy way to discover relevant studies and connect with researchers. You might learn about a study if you get care from the provider or academic medical center running it. Or perhaps you happened to click on a clinical trial ad targeted to you on social media. Unfortunately, these and other methods used today fail to engage many patients who might wish to participate in research.
A new registry for patients to connect with researchers
Registries are not a new idea: a handful of successful registries exist today focused on particular diseases. Voluntas builds off these efforts to offer patients a range of advanced features, including tools to aggregate siloed data, match to individually-relevant trials, and interact with researchers.
Informed consent, patient privacy, and data security are at the heart of Voluntas. Patients have no obligations and are never pressured to enroll in a study. And consent to any data sharing can be removed at any time, no questions asked.
Accelerating recruitment of qualified patients to trials
We use proprietary advertising tools and partnerships with patient communities to find prospective participants. Typically, patients are directed to a customized landing page, where they can learn more about a study and submit pre-screening information. Patients also have the opportunity to enroll in the Voluntas registry if they wish to be informed of future potential studies of interest. Voluntas shares data with research partners using our HIPAA-compliant platform.
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