Microsoft creates tool to match patients with clinical trials

During a hackathon project at Microsoft’s lob in Israel, a team of experts developed a bot to connect patients with clinical trials, according to Bloomberg.

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While designed to be a chat bot, the Clinical Trials Bot allows patients and physicians to search for  studies related to a specific disease. Users then are asked a series of questions that allows the tool to suggest clinical trials.

Microsoft is pitching the tool to  pharmaceutical companies, as the bot can be used to find study participants.  

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