How it works
Ana is an illustrative participant in a three-year disease registry run on the InsightArc SuiteTM. Here's what taking part looks like for her, and what happens behind the scenes for the study team.
Day 1
Ana gets an invitation, reads the consent form, and signs it on her phone. A copy of the signed form lands in her email, so she has her own record. There's no paperwork to mail back and no clinic visit just to enroll.
Behind the scenes: eConsent is captured with a full audit trail on a 21 CFR Part 11 compliant platform.
Week 1
Ana's husband, Luis, registers as her caregiver. His English isn't strong, so he sets his preferred language to Spanish. From then on, everything he sees is in Spanish, including his emails.
Behind the scenes: whatever language participants and caregivers use, the study team receives data normalized to English.
Week 2
Her first survey comes in during her commute. She answers a few questions, taps "Save for later," and picks up exactly where she left off on her laptop that evening.
Behind the scenes: partial responses are saved securely, so a busy day doesn't become a missed survey.
Month 1
Before each section, Ana sees how long it takes and how many points it earns. A two-minute questionnaire feels like two minutes.
Month 3
With IAS Chronicle on her phone, Ana logs her mood, sleep, and pain each day, by voice or text. On a flight with no signal, her entries save and sync later.
Behind the scenes: daily entries fill the gaps between scheduled surveys in the same longitudinal record.
Month 6
When her symptoms flare, Ana logs it in the moment, then uploads a photo and her latest lab results with IAS Capture. Her clinic records the visit in IAS Align. Luis adds what he noticed at home, in Spanish.
Behind the scenes: the rules engine triggers a follow-up survey, and if the event needs review, the adverse event workflow engine routes it to the right people.
Year 1
Ana redeems the points she's earned for a gift card. It's a small thing, and it tells her the study values her time.
Year 2
Ana can look back at her own check-in patterns and see how she compares with others in the study. Taking part feels like learning something, not just giving something.
Year 3
Ana completes her year-three surveys. This is the point where most longitudinal studies have lost the majority of their participants. In one multi-year post-market study on the InsightArc SuiteTM, 80% of participants were still completing surveys in year three.