Faster Data, Faster Cures with Joe Lengfellner at IgniteData

Research nurses and coordinators didn’t go into healthcare to copy data from one screen into another, yet that’s exactly where a huge share of their time goes. In this episode of Nurse Rosa’s INsights, hear from Joe Lengfellner, Chief Product and Technology Officer at IgniteData and former Senior Director of Clinical Research Informatics and Technology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Joe shares what he saw at MSK, where roughly 1,800 research studies meant coordinators and nurses were manually moving data from health records and paper questionnaires into sponsor systems. We dig into how IgniteData’s Archer platform connects directly to the EHR, lets coordinators review the data, and sends it to the sponsor with one click, cutting manual error rates that can reach 8 to 10 percent and boosting efficiency by 60 to 70 percent.

We also talk about why training takes less than 20 minutes, how Archer is now live at 9 of the top 10 U.S. cancer centers, why it never stores patient data, and where AI actually helps (hint: it’s the unstructured stuff like pathology and radiology reports). Plus, we get real about platform fatigue, the FDA’s push toward real time clinical trials, and how Joe would spend a billion dollars to fix healthcare’s interoperability problem.

If you work in clinical research, lead a research site, build health tech, or invest in it, this one’s for you.

Timestamps

0:00 Welcome Joe Lengfellner of IgniteData

1:18 The biggest technology headaches at clinical trial sites

2:02 The manual data problem at MSK

3:43 How IgniteData removes the human middleman

4:34 How the Archer platform works

5:47 Human error, data accuracy, and freeing up research teams

8:01 Training in under 20 minutes and unlearning old habits

10:45 Where Archer is live today, from top cancer centers to global sites

12:02 How faster data gets new treatments to patients sooner

14:28 Privacy first: why Archer stores no patient data

17:17 Where AI fits and where it doesn’t

20:51 What to ask before choosing a data platform

22:46 Platform fatigue and the doorway effect

26:31 The FDA and real time clinical trials

29:19 The billion dollar question

32:55 How to connect with Joe

About Joe Lengfellner

Joe Lengfellner is Chief Product and Technology Officer at IgniteData, where he leads product innovation focused on making hospital to sponsor clinical data flow fast, reliable, and research ready. Before IgniteData, he spent more than 15 years at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, most recently as Senior Director of Clinical Research Informatics and Technology, leading a team supporting MSK’s global clinical research portfolio. He holds a BS in Psychology from Stony Brook University.

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Resources mentioned

American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines program
FDA real time clinical trials initiative

About your host

Rosa Hart, BSN, RN, SCRN, FLAA, is a nurse, speaker, podcaster, and author of Speak Up, Start Now, available on Audible & Kindle.,

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