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Site-based studies can miss critical insights on the patient journey. This analysis compares data availability of a single network to PicnicHealth’s approach.

Our Chief Medical Officer, Dan Drozd, MD, MSc, shares his insights with MedCityNews on the evolution of research and how PicnicHealth’s approach is tailored to meet the unique needs of observational research. Discover his perspective on the crucial role of observational research in integrating the patient voice and supporting innovative therapy programs like CAR T.

At Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon, our Co-founder and CTO, Troy Astorino, shared his thoughts on how AI can enable patient-focused care and research participation. He discusses how PicnicHealth simplifies access to diverse information sources and drives improved health outcomes. Check out this recap of his discussion!

‍New Picnic assistant empowers patients to proactively manage their healthcare with medical information that is more accessible and easier to understand

Understand the role that AI and observational research should play in modernizing research, with Noga Leviner, Co-founder and CEO of PicnicHealth.

Hear from a research expert about his modern approach to clinical trials, incorporating truly patient-centric measures and modern tools for trial success.

PicnicHealth combines a direct-to-patient approach, industry-leading technology, and world-class clinical expertise to help life sciences companies meet study endpoints faster and with full transparency. See how we’ve modernized our approach to observational research, and how we are simplifying research for our sponsors.

PicnicHealth experts will showcase cutting-edge AI solutions and strategies for observational research at key industry events this fall. Presentations will cover AI-enabled data abstraction, diverse population recruitment, and improving real-world data collection.

Today, PicnicHealth released a preprint on LLMD, its state of the art medical large language model (LLM). LLMD achieves human-level accuracy when extracting clinical insights from medical records, and outperforms the most powerful and general and industry-specific LLMs. This model highlights how AI can realize the potential of real-world data (RWD) and offers life science companies a more efficient, powerful way to gain valuable clinical insights.

PicnicHealth is simplifying observational research by combining a direct-to-patient approach, industry-leading AI and technology, and world-class clinical expertise to capture the patient experience in an unprecedented level of detail.

Ensure high data quality in your observational study with an experienced partner. Learn more about how PicnicHealth ensures quality data collection.

Capture long-term patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in your observational study with PicnicHealth. Learn more about our services in our fact sheet.

Increase the patient diversity of your observational study with a virtual platform that increases patient accessibility. Learn more about PicnicHealth.

Ensure your observational study enrolls a representative population by working with an experienced observational research partner. Learn more about PicnicHealth.

We’re excited to unveil our latest enhancement to PicnicHealth Run—an innovative suite of study management tools designed to ensure the seamless execution of end-to-end studies. As part of this suite, we are proud to introduce the Sponsor Dashboard, a powerful new feature of the Sponsor Portal that gives research study sponsors unparalleled real-time insights into study details and progress, all in one place.

Site-based approaches to observational research can be burdensome, time-consuming, and costly for sponsors, patients, and site staff. To address these challenges, we’re excited to introduce the PicnicHealth Virtual Site.

PicnicHealth announces the launch of its Clinical Services, featuring a Virtual Clinic for patients and a Virtual Site for life sciences companies. These services, which are supported by a team of PicnicHealth’s in-house providers, have been designed to enhance care management for patients and drive more efficient observational research for life sciences companies. This launch marks a major step in the company’s mission to simplify healthcare for everyone.

PicnicHealth provides life science companies with better and more comprehensive patient journey insights for informed decision making in observational research studies. Check out this fact sheet to learn more about our Universal Patient Record and how it enhances evidence generation for better results for our sponsors.

Observational studies are instrumental in learning about the natural history of diseases and the impact of treatments on patients in real-world settings. These studies are more impactful and generalizable when they incorporate: 1) deep clinical phenotypic and outcome data, not just administrative-coded data; 2) a diverse group of participants, not just patients at a small number of academic sites; and 3) comprehensive data from across the patient journey not limited to a single clinic, hospital, or healthcare system.

Explore the fundamental opportunity within decentralized and hybrid observational trials with PicnicHealth’s CTO and Applied Clinical Trials

Medical Affairs & the Real World: How PicnicHealth's model is providing a unified view of patient care and simplifying observational research

AI is changing how biopharma companies clean, organize, structure, and abstract information at a much faster speed and greater scale than a person or team of people ever could. We can now gather and curate data more efficiently and complete manual, tedious tasks easier to unlock new insights.

Today, PicnicHealth, a company dedicated to simplifying observational research, announces the appointment of Jennifer Stacey as Chief Delivery Officer. In this role, Stacey will oversee the end-to-end delivery of observational studies conducted on the PicnicHealth platform to accelerate customer success and drive innovation in the healthcare industry.

Earlier this year, the FDA published a guidance document titled “Real-World Evidence: Considerations Regarding Non-Interventional Studies for Drug and Biological Products”, that provides study design and analysis recommendations to sponsors looking to use real-world data (RWD) in observational research. This guidance, which emphasizes the potential for real-world evidence (RWE) to meet regulatory standards for evidence generation, underscores the FDA's recognition of RWE as a valuable component in drug and biological product evaluation.

Real-world medical records quickly break common assumptions used to develop AI techniques in academic settings, and it’s these real-world issues that make our job difficult and interesting. They’re also the reason that “pretty good on a benchmark” has never translated into a great solution for the tasks we train on.

PicnicHealth’s AI strategy is focused on building personal medical AI that helps patients get better care and, through our research-focused products, eventually better therapeutic options. To do this, our approach to large language model (LLM) development introduces a distinctive dimension – we bring generalized medical knowledge together with a detailed understanding of a patient’s own medical journey by interpreting their records.

Today, PicnicHealth announces PicnicAI, the groundbreaking technology that unlocks the Universal Patient Record. PicnicAI collects medical records from everywhere in the U.S. and transforms them into meaningful data for patients and researchers. It is powered by a proprietary, industry-leading LLM that outperforms GPT-4 and healthcare industry-specific models in accuracy, efficiency, and cost on tasks that involve structuring or understanding medical records. ‍

This week PicnicHealth unveiled PicnicAI, an AI-driven platform designed to rapidly unlock universal medical records and deliver accurate insights for patients and life science companies.

Recruitment is essential for generating data on drug efficacy, which is crucial for the approval of new medical treatments. Clinical trial success hinges on the ability to recruit a sufficient and appropriate number of participants.

PicnicHealth is simplifying observational research by combining a direct-to-patient approach, industry-leading AI and technology, and world-class clinical expertise to capture the patient experience in an unprecedented level of detail.

As stakeholders increasingly seek more robust evidence from registries and observational studies, researchers must adopt innovative methods for generating data. Previously restricted by outdated study models, evidence generation can now be more efficient and flexible through the use of cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence. New technology-driven methods frees life science companies from historical constraints, enabling a deeper understanding of the course of disease, drug effectiveness, safety, and quality of life (QoL).

As the life sciences landscape continues to evolve rapidly, the ability to conduct highly efficient yet deeply insightful and reliable research is crucial. PicnicHealth Pulse is specifically designed to address the shortcomings of traditional observational study approaches

PicnicHealth launched its life science product today to enable high-quality, low-burden research for life sciences companies and patients.

PicnicHealth today announced it was ranked among the World’s Best Digital Health Companies by Newsweek and named the “Best MedTech Startup” by MedTech Breakthrough.

Check out this transcript of PicnicHealth’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Nancy Dreyer, talking with AJMC about how the direct-to-patient approach is superior to traditional observational research methods. She focuses on the collection of better real-world data and how patients can benefit.

Read about how AI is empowering real-world evidence generation in observational research as well as the limitations of using AI within this setting.

Q&A with PicnicHealth Chief Commercial Officer, Rachael Thomas Higgins

In this article with PharmaPhorum, our Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Nancy Dreyer, provides actionable guidelines on how to integrate direct-to-patient approaches at every stage of your study. See why she believes patient-centric observational research is better fit to answer complex research questions.

PicnicHealth announces the appointment of Rachael Thomas Higgins as Chief Commercial Officer

In honor of Rare Disease Day, we dived into an insightful Q&A session with PicnicHealth's Chief Medical Officer, Daniel R. Drozd, an MD at the forefront of pioneering healthcare research.

PicnicHealth announced the launch of a new study portal to facilitate faster, more accurate observational research.

We’re thrilled to share that #PicnicHealthGivesBack, our annual giving campaign, has returned this year. From now until January 5, 2024, we’re donating to The American Kidney Fund (AKF) and The Chandler Project for each new PicnicHealth sign-up, up to $6k. Join PicnicHealth today to make an even bigger impact.

We are excited to announce the launch of PicnicStudies! With this new solution, run faster and more efficient observational studies from end-to-end.

Join us for a cutting-edge webinar on the intersection of decentralized research and real-world data. Learn from industry experts about the evolving drug development landscape.

PicnicHealth announced the acquisition of AllStripes, a platform dedicated to generating evidence about the rare disease community. This strategic consolidation establishes PicnicHealth as the leading patient-centric evidence generation partner within a rapidly evolving life sciences landscape.

PicnicHealth announced the acquisition of AllStripes, a platform dedicated to generating evidence about the rare disease community. This strategic consolidation establishes PicnicHealth as the leading patient-centric evidence generation partner within a rapidly evolving life sciences landscape.

In this engaging webinar, Clara, Heather, and Dan lead a discussion on the exciting ways stakeholders are optimizing registries to enhance research insights. The session explores the concept of the "Reimagined Registry" and delves into the characteristics of traditional registries. Patient registries are introduced as organized systems utilizing observational study methods to collect standardized patient information. These registries play a pivotal role in providing valuable real-world data for diverse research needs and inquiries. Join us in uncovering the potential of reimagined registries for research excellence.

Why You're Never 'Done' Even After Breast Cancer Treatment

Get to know Sara Snell Taylor, Senior Epidemiologist at PicnicHealth and discover how she leverages real-world data to improve patient outcomes

PicnicHealth is thrilled to announce our entry into the real-world data market for oncology. Leveraging our successes in chronic and rare diseases, we're now dedicated to advancing oncology research by collaborating directly with people living with cancer.