Addressing Barriers Health Systems Face in Integrating Clinical Care & Research

At the 2019 Clinical Research as a Care Option (CRAACO) conference, a panel discussed Barriers Health Systems Face in Integrating Clinical Care & Research, including:

• Financial barriers – Speaking to administration’s bottom line
• Historical barriers – Who are the key stakeholders that need to be converted into believers of the CRAACO movement?
• Logistical issues – How can we make study startup a more streamlined process?
• Culture change – Onboarding an outside group nested into an existing infrastructure
• Does adding the offering of clinical trials disrupt the ability of the physicians in the clinics to have appropriate patient flow?
• How do you offer patients the options of clinical research?
• Insight from the front line of physicians seeing patients

Moderated by: Lora Black, Senior Director of Clinical Research, Sanford Health Systems

Panelists: 
Greg Burke, MD, MSc, Chief Science Officer, Senior Associate Dean for Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS, Vice Dean for Clinical Research, Duke University School of Medicine

The 2020 CRAACO conference will be taking place July 13-14, 2020 in Raleigh, NC. Learn more here.