Why QI?

Dedicated to improving measurement.

Traditional assessment ratings are

  • Expensive to administer
  • Vulnerable to bias
  • Imprecise
  • Plagued by poor resolution and sensitivity to treatments effects
  • Gathered in an office or clinic, not in the real world
  • These shortcomings decrease the signal-to-noise ratio of clinical studies and increase costs

Digital biomarkers increase the likelihood of successful clinical trials by

  • Improving and enriching patient selection
  • Monitoring interview quality
  • Validating endpoints
  • Characterizing treatment-responsive groups
  • Hypothesis generation
  • Measuring the impact of treatment on real world function

Challenges in the use of digital biomarkers

  • Plagued by poor resolution and sensitivity to treatment
  • Gathered in an office or clinic, not in the real world
  • Complexity
  • High burden for participants and sites
  • Lack of clear purpose
  • Black box modeling that is
    • Uninterpretable
    • Unreproducible

Our solutions

  • “Sparse” approaches to technology & hardware
  • No- to low-burden strategies for patients & sites
  • Limited, clinically relevant feature sets
  • “Intelligent” AI/ML with a priori selection of variables for inclusion
  • Convert massive datasets to interpretable findings
  • Evaluate progress in real-time in the participant’s natural environment