IgniteData CEO Zach Taft explains how the Archer platform moves clinical trial data straight from the EHR to sponsors, cutting queries by 90% and delays by weeks.
Anyone who has worked on a sponsored clinical trial knows the pain of the swivel chair: pull up the electronic health record in one window, open the sponsor's data capture system in another, and retype numbers that were already documented during the patient visit. It is slow, expensive, and error prone, and it is one of the reasons trials cost so much and take so long. On this episode of HealthTech Remedy, Drs. Trevor Royce and Tim Showalter dig into why this problem has persisted for decades and why sponsors and sites have been so reluctant to fix it.
Their guest is Zach Taft, CEO of IgniteData, whose Archer platform pulls data directly from the EHR and other source systems and streams it into a sponsor's EDC with full provenance intact. Zach traces his path from founding one of the first medical scribing companies to leading digital ventures at Memorial Sloan Kettering, where he helped incubate IgniteData and bring Archer to general availability. He explains why what looks like a simple one to one integration is really a many to many problem, and how taking small bites of structured data at a few partner sites eventually grew into a platform used by most NCI designated comprehensive cancer centers and several top pharmas across four continents.
The conversation also covers what it takes to get a health system to say yes, why CRCs are starting to prioritize Archer studies over manual ones, and where AI genuinely helps versus where it creates false hope. Zach is candid about the limits of black box models in research grade data, why nobody actually wants 100 percent of the data, and why the EDC is not disappearing any time soon. He closes with a look at where clinical research could be in ten years, from real time safety signals to recruiting patients at the moment of diagnosis, and a warning that the industry is at a crossroads between a vendor agnostic future and a fragmented one.
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