VALIDATION

How to Work with Us to Validate Your Proactive Health Technology and Systems

Medical validation of your product by groups of patients, caregivers, or well consumers, can be arranged. We work with you to assemble teams of physicians and nurse researchers required for your specific needs. These teams will help your company navigate the maze of regulatory issues surrounding human subject research. We help to write protocols, obtain the human use approval, recruit the patients and caregivers, install the product, conduct the research and report the results.

CFH will:

• Utilize your products and services to calibrate your key concepts
• Provide standard interpretation in medical practice
• Define Best Practices for their effective use
• Test the interface potential within a larger network or system
• Recruit from our Primary Care Network (350,000 patients)
• Recruit through NYAHSA and AAHSA retirement home communities

Contracts can include:

• Establishment of a URMC faculty member as principle investigator
• “Pre-screening” service by a panel of providers, for early indicators of provider acceptance
• Use of “standardized patients” to assess medical establishment buy-in
• Recruitment of a health care provider with a complementary interest, if needed for the research
• Development of a research protocol
• Approval by the Research Subjects Review Board (RSRB). Contract research utilizes the Western IRB, which meets weekly.
• Recruitment of appropriate patients through our Primary Care Network
• Publication of the research