Clinical trial technology consulting

The right technology.
Done properly.

The difference between a promising digital health tool and one that works in your trial is almost always implementation. OptiTrial exists to close that gap – from protocol design to go-live and beyond.

We work best where the technology challenge is real – where digital health tools need to work for sites and patients, not just pass a demo.

Technology doesn’t fail trials. Implementation does.

Most sponsors have access to good technology. What’s harder to find is the expertise to configure it against protocol requirements, validate it to GCP standards, and get it running at site level – so patients can use it and sites can support it.

Technology and AI strategies built around your protocol, endpoints, and site operating model

Supplier selection frameworks that hold up under scrutiny – internally and with auditors

Delivery that connects configuration, UAT, validation, and site readiness from the start

Who we work with

We work best where the technology challenge is real

Sponsors & CROs

You know what your study needs. We make the technology deliver it – in practice.

Rolling out ePRO across a global programme or deploying eConsent for the first time – we provide the delivery experience to get systems configured, validated, and running at site level. On time and inspection-ready.

Technology Providers

Your platform works in a demo. That doesn’t mean it’s trial-ready.

Protocol alignment, GCP compliance, and site usability are different challenges from building a good product. We help technology companies close that gap, win sponsor trust, and keep it.

Both

When you need someone who speaks fluently to both sides of the table.

Sponsors need technology that works at site level. Vendors need to understand how trials actually run. OptiTrial sits at that intersection – and has done for over 13 years.

What we do

Focused expertise. No unnecessary scope.

We do fewer things than a big consultancy or a CRO. We do them properly, with people who’ve done them before.

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Build a technology strategy your study can actually execute

Protocol digitisation, AI adoption frameworks, and site-level operating plans grounded in how trials actually run – not just how they look on a slide deck.

Protocol digitisationAI frameworksPoC to scale
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Choose the right technology partner, then prove it

Objective, structured evaluations that go beyond the sales pitch. RFI/RFP design, market scans, and GCP-aligned qualification documentation your team can defend internally and to auditors.

RFI / RFPVendor evaluationQualification docs
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From build to go-live, without the surprises

Hands-on configuration, UAT management, and site enablement across sponsors, CROs, and vendors. eCOA, ePRO, eConsent, wearables, and remote monitoring – with inspection-ready documentation throughout.

eCOA / ePROeConsentWearablesUAT management
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Bridge the gap between your product and real trials

Requirements translation, workflow review, and delivery playbooks grounded in how trials actually run. Helping technology providers and sponsors align on what the product needs to do at site and patient level.

RequirementsDelivery playbooksReadiness
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GCP compliance support for technology suppliers

Most technology providers know their product. What they often lack is someone who has been inside the audits, run the UATs, and delivered against GCP standards across live programmes.

We bring that delivery experience to help suppliers get inspection-ready and stay that way – from validation planning and UAT documentation through to audit support and compliance gap analysis.

System validationGCP documentationAudit supportCompliance gap analysisUAT frameworks
Where trials go wrong

The problems we fix most often

Choosing technology before defining the operating model – then discovering it doesn’t fit how sites actually work

Treating patient-facing technology as a low-priority add-on, rather than a core delivery risk

Underestimating the UAT and validation effort until it delays go-live or triggers a finding

Designing for the protocol on paper, not for the sites and patients who have to use it in practice

Our impact

Numbers that come from doing the work

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Farrell Healion

Farrell Healion

Founder & Principal Consultant

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About OptiTrial

Built around one thing: making trial technology work in practice

I’ve spent over 13 years working on some of the most complex digital clinical programmes in the industry – configuring systems, managing vendors, running UATs, and sitting in the audits. I founded OptiTrial because I kept seeing the same problem: great technology, poor implementation. The tools existed. The expertise to deliver them properly often didn’t.

OptiTrial is deliberately focused. We work with sponsors, CROs, and technology providers on challenges at the intersection of clinical trial operations and digital health technology. We don’t do everything. We do the things we know well, to a standard that holds up under scrutiny.

ePRO / eCOAeConsentWearables & sensorsDecentralised trialsAI in clinical trialsGCP complianceVendor qualificationInspection readiness
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Tell us what you’re working on

We’ll give you a clear view of what’s worth doing and what’s not. No lengthy pitch process. Just a straightforward conversation with someone who has worked on these problems before.

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