Patent ID: 7647240

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for matching clinical monitors with clinical sponsors, comprising: receiving, by a computer, an agreement to enter into a standard contract from clinical monitors and a clinical sponsor; creating a monitor profile for each of the clinical monitors, the monitor profiles including region information of the clinical monitors; prescreening the monitor profiles to ensure they meet predetermined qualifications; blinding, by the computer, the monitor profiles from the clinical sponsor; maintaining, by the computer, a project management section for receiving project information; receiving the project information for a project from the clinical sponsor into the project management section, the received project information identifying multiple study site locations for the project; blocking, by the computer, the clinical monitors from viewing the project information received in the project management section; performing a blinded search of the monitor profiles based upon predetermined search criteria, the search criteria including the region information of the clinical monitors; generating, by the computer, a list of qualified clinical monitors from the blinded search of the monitor profiles; selecting from the list of qualified clinical monitors a plurality of the qualified clinical monitors from at least two different regions to view the project information for the project in the project management section; unblocking the selected clinical monitors from viewing the project information for the project in the project management section; issuing invitations to the selected clinical monitors informing the selected clinical monitors that the selected clinical monitors have been selected to interview for the project; receiving acceptance of the invitations from accepting selected clinical monitors; unblinding, by the computer, the contact information of the accepting selected clinical monitors; receiving requests from the clinical sponsor to enter into a project specific contract for the project with a plurality of the accepting selected clinical monitors subsequent to the interviews for the project; receiving acceptance of the project specific contract for the project from a plurality of the requested clinical monitors; adding information from the project specific contract to the standard contract for the accepting requested clinical monitors upon receipt of acceptance of the project specific contract by the accepting requested clinical monitors; and assigning, by the computer, the accepting requested clinical monitors to the project of the clinical sponsor after acceptance of the project specific contract for the project, at least two of the accepting requested clinical monitors from different regions; wherein the computer is a third party system.