Patent ID: 7904313

Claim:
A method of recruiting a patient into a clinical trial, the method comprising: serving from a server to the patient a questionnaire that includes at least one clinical trial eligibility question; receiving at the server from the patient patient-specific data that includes an answer to the at least one clinical trial eligibility question, the patient-specific data comprising at least one of: disease of concern, demographic data, drug classes of interest, prior therapies, specific drugs of interest, years since diagnosis, stage of disease, phase of clinical trial, and concomitant diseases; sending the patient-specific data from the server to a security layer; sending the patient-specific data from the security layer to a matcher; preventing direct communication between the server and the matcher; accessing criteria of one or more clinical trials; determining using the matcher whether the patient-specific data satisfies the criteria of one or more clinical trials, thereby generating match result data in the matcher; sending match result data from the matcher to the security layer; in the security layer, removing proprietary trial information from the match result data, thereby generating sanitized match result data; sending the sanitized match result data to the patient; inviting the patient to participate in a clinical trial for which the criteria have been determined to be satisfied, if any; and if the patient chooses to participate, registering the patient in a database.