At Lilly COI, our intent is to transform clinical development through patient focused efforts, and explore open innovation methods to do so.
Our approach
Our overall approach is multifaceted: We’re learning from patient advocates about how to use social media to connect online with patients, caregivers and communities to bring valuable insights into clinical research; we attend conferences and have hosted a workshop to drive shared learning and generate ideas; and, we’ve created public prototypes and put out the open LCOI-API to surface information about clinical trials. (Editor’s Note: In 2015, leadership of the LCOI-API was transitioned to TrialReach. You can learn more about their continuing work in innovation in clinical trial matching at TrialReach.com.) Most recently, we announced a collaboration with other pharma to develop a capability to enable patients to match to clinical trials.
We’ve also sought out opportunities to source innovative ideas to help move the industry towards a common goal of improving the patient experience. One such way has been our sponsorship and promotion of challenges.
The Latest: Patient Engagement App Challenge
In November we announced the winners for the Clinical Trial Redesign Challenge live at our Patients-at-the-Center of Clinical
Research conference. The challenge was for designers and developers to re-imagine clinical trial information in a patient-centric way, and to support patients who are considering enrolling in a study.
Continuing in our innovation work, we are excited to announce our joining with a number of partners to sponsor the Patient Engagement App Challenge. UBC, Enlight BioSciences the Partnership In Clinical Trials conference and Lilly COI are calling for innovative applications that can help patients who are in a clinical trial.
Lilly Clinical Open Innovation 