System and method for facilitating clinical trial enrollment

A method for facilitating clinical trial enrollment comprising:

• providing a clinical trial information database, the clinical trial information database having stored therein clinical trial information of at least a clinical trial with the clinical trial information being indicative of clinical trial criteria of the at least a clinical trial and contact information of the at least a clinical trial's coordinator;
• providing a server computer connected to the Internet and the clinical trial database, the server computer comprising a database management module, an Internet communication module, a comparison module, and an account management module, each module being associated with the processing of a specific task;
• the server computer executing computer-executable instructions stored in a non-transient memory thereof and performing:
• generating data indicative of an interactive Internet website for facilitating clinical trial enrollment, the interactive Internet website enabling communication between the server computer and users of client computers connected to the Internet;
• receiving from a user, via the Internet website executed on the user's client computer, a request for clinical trial information;
• prompting and enabling the user to provide information indicative of patient characteristics that is directly related to the clinical trial criteria of the at least a clinical trial and is absent any personal identifying information, wherein each patient characteristic is directly submitted to the server computer after selection and compared with the respective clinical trial criterion by the comparison module, enabling collecting first patient characteristics related to clinical trial exclusion criteria;
• when the patient characteristics meet one or more exclusion criteria of all available clinical trials, presenting the user with a message indicating that there is no clinical trial available for the patient when the patient characteristics meet one or more exclusion criteria of all available clinical trials;
• comparing the received patient characteristics with the clinical trial criteria retrieved from the clinical trial information database and providing to the user's client computer information indicative of the patient's eligibility or ineligibility to a trial;
• and,
• if the information indicative of the patient's eligibility or ineligibility to a trial is indicative of the patient being eligible to a clinical trial:
• the server computer retrieving the contact information of the clinical trial's coordinator from the clinical trial information database;
• and,
• the server computer providing the contact information to the user's client computer.