Akyrian

Akyrian Systems is a New York clinical-technology company working on the part of drug development nobody sees: the years a trial spends collecting, transcribing and verifying data. Their platform, SDE™ (Source Data Extraction), is billed as the world's first source capture and markup system for clinical research — driven by Good Clinical Practice, data privacy and advanced AI. As the company puts it, it's "EDC at its next level."

The problem it removes

In a conventional trial, the data already exists — it's in the patient's medical record. Getting it into an Electronic Data Capture system means a coordinator reading that record and retyping the values into a form, then someone else checking the retyping against the source. It's slow, and every hop is a chance to introduce an error.

SDE inverts it. The source document is the data. A site uploads the record, marks up the values on the page itself, and those markups become the answers to the trial's forms — with the provenance still attached. The transcription step, and the monitoring built to catch transcription mistakes, goes away.

Privacy handled before a human sees it

Every image entering the system runs through a redaction pipeline first. OCR reads the page, and identifiers are blacked out automatically, so patient-identifying information is removed on ingest rather than trusted to whoever is looking at the screen. Files are held encrypted, and every action in the system lands in an audit log.

What the platform covers

• Study structure — studies, organizations and the investigator sites running them, with patients enrolled against each.
• Visits and forms — a patient's visits on their scheduled dates, and the eCRF questions each visit has to answer.
• Source capture and markup — source documents attached to a visit and marked up region by region, so each revealed area is tied to the question it answers.
• Review workflow — investigator and monitor passes over captured data, with a documented reason recorded whenever a capture is rejected.
• Access control and audit — role-based privileges over who can see and do what, and an audit trail behind every action.

The work sat squarely in a regulated domain: Good Clinical Practice, patient privacy, and the expectation that any number on a form can be traced back to the page it came from.

Learn more at akyrian.com.