New York City-based Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center has halved the time its research teams spend entering clinical trial data by linking its EHR directly to trial data systems.
The technology, which the cancer center implemented in 2025, pulls patient information from Mount Sinai’s Epic EHR into clinical trial databases, according to an Oct. 5 news release from the cancer center.
Here are three things to know:
- After each patient visit, the system automatically populates about 70% of the data required for clinical trials directly from the EHR, cutting the average entry time per visit from 5.5 minutes to 2.5 minutes. So far, the transferred data has had no errors and has triggered no data queries, the release said.
- The system is used by all 16 of the cancer center’s disease groups and is now standard during new-trial startup, including for CAR-T and other cellular therapy studies.
- Mount Sinai is extending the automation to harder-to-capture data, including medication histories and lab results tied to efficacy endpoints.
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