Patent ID: 7711580

Claim:
A method for matching patients with clinical trials, comprising: receiving acceptance criteria for clinical trials and a series of questions targeted to at least one specific clinical trial at a server, wherein the acceptance criteria for clinical trials and the series of questions targeted to at least one specific clinical trial are provided over the Internet by a system of a clinical trial sponsor or investigator; receiving patient profile information for a patient at the server, the patient profile information submitted over the Internet by a user at a user terminal; comparing the patient profile information with the acceptance criteria for clinical trials stored in a database, the comparison performed by the server; and automatically, determining that the patient prequalifies for any of the clinical trials based on the comparison of the patient profile information with the acceptance criteria; notifying the user that the patient has prequalified for at least one specific clinical trial when the patient prequalifies for any of the clinical trials; presenting to the user the series of questions targeted to the at least one specific clinical trial after determining that the patient prequalifies for any of the clinical trials, wherein the series of questions are provided by the server to the user terminal over the Internet; determining that the patient prequalifies for the at least one specific clinical trial based on responses to the targeted questions; storing the responses to the targeted questions; providing the user with an application for the user to request that the patient be a participant in the specific clinical trial at a clinical trial site for the specific clinical trial when the patient prequalifies for the at least one specific clinical trial, wherein the application is provided by the server to the user terminal over the Internet; and providing the contact information for the clinical trial site when the completed application is accepted.