Novelcare GTM brain

Novelcare connects healthcare providers and trial sites to help eligible patients discover local clinical research opportunities.

category

Clinical trial patient recruitment

market profile

  • text: Patient recruitment is a clinical trial bottleneck, and many physicians lack a simple way to connect patients to relevant studies.
  • text: Novelcare connects clinical practices and research sites through patient matching and physician referral workflows.

personas

  • title: Physician or practice owner
    pains:
    • Patients with difficult conditions need additional treatment options.
    • Finding relevant nearby trials and screening criteria takes time away from care.
  • title: Clinical trial site recruitment director
    pains:
    • Studies struggle to find enough eligible patients.
    • Building a reliable referring physician network requires sustained effort.
  • title: Healthcare organization privacy lead
    pains:
    • Patient information must be handled within clear privacy and contractual boundaries.
    • New tools can disrupt clinical workflows.

icp

  • text: Healthcare practices treating patients who could benefit from local research studies, particularly hard-to-treat conditions.
  • text: Clinical research sites needing referrals of potentially eligible patients from physician networks.

message pillars

  • text: Give doctors visibility into relevant local options.
  • text: Fit referral outreach into existing practice routines.
  • text: Extend treatment options without charging patients for study treatments.

objections

  • objection: Will this add work to our clinical practice?
    response: Novelcare says it sends study information to relevant patients while practices keep their clinical workflow; confirm the actual review steps in a demo.
  • objection: How is patient data protected?
    response: Review the company's privacy and security materials and contractual data-use boundaries with the practice's privacy team.

competitors

  • name: TriNetX
    why: Uses clinical data networks to support research and trial recruitment.
  • name: Elligo Health Research
    why: Connects healthcare practices and patients to clinical research.
  • name: Paradigm
    why: Works on improving clinical trial recruitment and access.

keywords

  • clinical trial patient recruitment
  • EHR clinical trial matching
  • clinical trial physician referrals
  • research site patient enrollment
  • clinical trial access for practices

voice

  • Patient-centered
  • Trust-conscious and reassuring

signals

  • text: A practice treats patients with limited treatment options and wants relevant local studies.
  • text: A research site is behind enrollment targets and needs referring physician access.

stack

  • Electronic health records

pricing

model: unknown

motion

hybrid

channels

  • Website
  • Physician referrals
  • LinkedIn

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Ethan Bond
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Ethan is the co-founder and CEO of SelectIQ. Prior to SelectIQ, Ethan was a product strategist at Palantir where he led product development into multiple new verticals, most recently helping to build Palantir's nascent life sciences division. Ethan is a product designer and software engineer by training, having *almost* graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • name: Jason Marmon
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Jason is the co-founder and CTO of SelectIQ. Prior to SelectIQ, Jason worked at Palantir on life sciences software and led Palantir's Data Governance product team. Previously, he co-founded Skylight, an NYC real estate app acquired by Common Living. He's also a 2015 Thiel Fellow.

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