OpenTrials launches beta version today at the World Health Summit – OpenTrials

"Open Knowledge International is delighted to announce the launch of the public preview beta version of  OpenTrials at a panel session on ‘Fostering Open Science in Global Health’ at the World Health Summit today, 10 October 2016, the world’s foremost forum for strategic questions of Global Health. OpenTrials is an open, online database of information about the world’s clinical trials funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation through the Center for Open Science. The project, which is designed to increase transparency and improve access to research, is directed by Dr. Ben Goldacre, an internationally known leader on clinical transparency, and is being built by Open Knowledge International.

OpenTrials works like a search engine, with advanced search options for filtering results by criteria such as drug and disease area. All data and documents for each trial included are “threaded” together and presented alongside each other. At the World Health Summit, the team will be demonstrating how the OpenTrials interface works, including how to explore trials and filter results by criteria such as drug and disease area. They will also demonstrate the power of linking clinical trial information together, showing how it can be used to highlight important discrepancies in the data...."