How to Embed Clinical Research in Rural and Frontier Health Systems

About this podcast:This session was recorded at the September 2025 CRAACO: Clinical Research as a Care Option conference.Rural sites represent untapped potential for reaching a broader array of patients and providing them access to life-changing clinical trials, but existing clinical trial infrastructure does not set rural sites up for success. Funded through the Genentech Innovation Fund, Montana State University and Billings Clinic created a rural clinical research readiness toolkit for unaffiliated rural and frontier healthcare systems to empower them to meet clinical research demands without compromising local care delivery.More specifically, this presentation covers the tools created to toolkit empowers sites to do clinical research, including:Interpretable workflow templatesA workload calculator for staff capacity planningPatient safety indicators to support enrollment and retentionEHR-based visualization methods to assist clinical decision-making when trial participants are also patientsAnd moreFor more information, go to theconferenceforum.org.