Patent ID: 7483838

Claim:
A method of on-line recruitment of individuals who want to volunteer with a recruitment service provider for ongoing consideration as potential candidates for participating as research subjects in any of a plurality of clinical trials that register with a recruitment service provider, the method being carried out by means of a server operated by the recruitment service provider, the server being configured to communicate with a plurality of end-user computer terminals via a network, the method comprising the steps of: providing a participation agreement for display on one of the plurality of end-user computer terminals that is accessible to one of the individuals, the participation agreement soliciting consent from the individual to be considered on an ongoing basis for selection as a potential candidate for participating as a research subject in any of the plurality of clinical trials; receiving a signal from the one end-user computer terminal indicating the individual's consent to the participation agreement; providing a health survey form, for display on the one end-user computer terminal, and soliciting contact information and at least one of personal and medical information for the individual from which the individual may be evaluated as a potential candidate for any of the plurality of clinical trials; receiving information transmitted by the individual via the one of the plurality of end-user computer terminals, the information containing the contact information and at least one of the relevant personal and medical information; storing the individual's contact information and the at least one of the individual's personal and medical information in a database, thereby registering the individual for consideration as a candidate for participating as a research subject in any of the plurality of clinical trials; transmitting the stored information to a service provider computer in communication with the server; receiving an information access request by said recruitment service provider at the computer in communication with the server, said information access request including electronic data to authenticate the identify of said recruitment service provider; authenticating the identity of said recruitment service provider; providing access to the individual's retrieved information to said recruitment service provider at the computer of recruitment service provider; and selecting the individual as a potential candidate for one of the plurality of registered clinical trials.