I am deeply saddened to share the passing of Spencer Sims. Spencer was one of Leapcure’s original co-founders. He helped us create Leapcure from nothing and played a key role for us when we went from just an idea to a company. Spencer was a loving, caring, passionate person. He was a challenger. He encouraged… Continue reading Passing of Spencer Sims
While the challenges of treating Coronavirus are familiar from the perspective of it being a dangerous infectious disease, the speed of its progression and the breadth of those who are affected and at risk pose unique challenges for everyone. If we’re going to enroll patients in Coronavirus clinical trials quickly, finding participants is going to… Continue reading Clinical trial patient engagement for Coronavirus – a Leapcure perspective
Despite extensive experience in clinical research and our growing patient advocacy group network, we’re far from where we want to be with putting ourselves in the shoes of patients. Absolute patient empathy is an evolving process, and we’re determined to push the learning curve as far forward as we can every day. At a recent… Continue reading Putting ourselves in patient’s shoes – an evolving process
Among the most unexpected benefits from working for Leapcure are the stories and lessons we hear from people around the industry. When we started this operation, we knew a solution like ours was sorely needed. We couldn’t find anything like Leapcure when we were looking to pay for it (and we would have paid a… Continue reading Unexpected Benefits
When a spouse or family member has a chronic, life threatening, or debilitating illness, there is often a ripple effect that puts the onus of responsibility onto people with very little training and, in many cases, very little income to assist in solving day to day challenges. From a clinical research perspective, we see… Continue reading Caregivers Key to Unlocking Complex Research
At Leapcure, we are a patient powered business. The value we deliver to patients and feedback loop we receive from patients is what makes our technology and our operation possible. Patient engagement is the core of our business, it’s often interesting, sometimes humbling, and always deeply satisfying. We’ve come to embrace an evolved approach to make… Continue reading Running a patient powered business
At LeapCure, we’re not strangers to outcome based pricing. We prefer to share the risk of patient recruitment and patient retention outcomes with any of our researcher site clients, CRO clients or biotech clinical operations clients. Sharing risk forces us to be better problem solvers and also helps us build more useful technology. So when we read about considerations… Continue reading Outcome based pricing & precision medicine
Many see Leap Day as an extraneous day, but others are finding ways to seize this day as a gift – extra time they theoretically wouldn’t have had before. In this mindset, this “bonus” day can be a time to make sure you’re living life to the fullest. We at LeapCure identify with the latter… Continue reading Leap with us
What’s most intriguing about change is its complexity. Change is a game of polar opposites that both scares and excites. The change that is the most necessary is not always the most comfortable. The change that makes us the most uncomfortable often produces the most growth. It was several years ago that I was… Continue reading Letter from our CEO
