eHealth ExpressTM allows pharmaceutical companies to obtain comprehensive qualitative data, from a wide range of mobile subjects, during clinical trials of new products and to reduce time to market.

Our solution eliminates the usual constraint to have the subject in near proximity of the monitoring site and allows Clinical Research Organizations to obtain digital data compliant with 21 CFR Part 11 FDA regulations . At the same time, data quality, fidelity, and the timeliness of reporting is greatly improved by eliminating the necessity of solely relying on the test subjects’ individual impressions of the efficacy of the product(s) being tested.

Likewise, as important, subject safety and the overall protocol of the test are greatly enhanced by the ability of the monitoring site and professionals to obtain early and accurate indications of any unexpected issues or outcomes.

Overall trends

• The aging of population is increasing chronic illness and demands for healthcare services:
  Independently of the economic “well being” of countries, healthcare expenditures are growing in every one of them because of an aging population and greater life expectancy. This rapid aging will see the number of people over 60 worldwide triple by 2050 while population over 80 will soar fivefold to 379 million. In the western world the proportion of people over 60 will go from 20 % currently to 30 %.
• Mounting demands means critical skills shortages and increasing costs of care:
  In the US, national healthcare expenditures are projected to reach almost 16 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010. For the US, Japan and Western Europe, the annual growth in health spending is expected to average 1.8 percent above the annual growth rate of GDP for 2003-2010. As a result healthcare expenditures are growing at a rate that is not sustainable and new means of reducing such expenses are sought.
• Technological advances are enabling more cost effective healthcare

Today’s mobile telecommunications infrastructure makes it possible to take medical monitoring technologies developed for space and military applications to the consumer market. Europe is leading the way in wireless telecommunications in terms of devices (Nokia) and is not far behind Japan in terms of services (SMS (test messages, MMS (multimedia messages).