Improving health research collaboration with user-friendly and secure software

In Norway, Ledidi supplies several health trusts that cover research and quality registries, and its solution is in use in 25 countries.

“Quality registries are about ensuring that today’s treatment meets desired goals and standards. These registries identify procedures that are going well, and things that are not going well. The old-fashioned way of doing this is to register everything that can go wrong. What you lose then are all the factors that identify why things are going well. Registering quality is about logging the entire patient journey – efficiency improvements, identifying whether procedures provide marginal or large gains and so forth. It also involves benchmarking against other hospitals and clinics that are comparable.”

“We provide a platform developed according to the principles of privacy by design and default. This means that privacy and data protection are an integral part of a secure and user-friendly platform that can be used for this mapping,” says Einar Martin Aandahl, the CEO and co-founder of Ledidi.

A lot of the value in the platform is the end-user perspective. Ledidi provides a flexible ‘do it yourself’ solution for different needs.

“Our software helps clinicians and researchers to collaborate with health data within the boundaries of privacy and data security. We deliver a system that allows you to aggregate more health data across the medical record systems. We deliver structured health data, which allows you to gain more insight. It’s a very flexible platform for collecting, structuring and analysing data,” adds Aandahl.

While the Ledidi platform predominantly addresses the needs of researchers and clinicians, administrative personnel in healthcare organisations can benefit equally from its streamlined, secure and efficient processes.

From an administrative standpoint, Ledidi reduces complexity by integrating multiple health record systems into a single, cohesive platform. This integration simplifies administrative tasks such as regulatory compliance reporting, oversight of data management and monitoring of quality standards. The software automates and simplifies data aggregation, dramatically reducing the administrative burden traditionally associated with managing disparate datasets.

Administrators benefit from real-time access to structured data, allowing for improved resource allocation and decision-making. Ledidi’s robust security protocols ensure compliance with international data privacy standards such as the EU’s GDPR and the US’s HIPAA regulations, significantly reducing administrative risks related to data breaches or non-compliance.

Furthermore, the platform's intuitive, user-friendly design minimises training requirements for administrative staff, leading to rapid adoption and increased operational efficiency.

“By enhancing collaboration between researchers, clinicians and administrative staff, Ledidi ensures smoother workflows and better-coordinated healthcare delivery across institutions and international borders,” says Kent Jordet, CRO at Ledidi.

Adoption is a keyword for Ledidi, and one market in particular has caught its attention.

“The UK is a big market, but not very different from Norway, and we see significant traction in this market now,” says Aandahl, who points to a trend for which Ledidi software is especially important: precision medicine.

“It’s becoming increasingly expensive to run clinical trials with fewer patients. More and more selective patient groups require that pharma and biotech companies can collaborate more closely with hospitals and research institutions. Our software makes this cross-institutional collaboration much easier and frictionless,” explains Aandahl.

Ledidi has entered into a collaboration with CMR Surgical, which is one of the largest manufacturers of robotic surgery equipment. Ledidi has also signed agreements with customers such as Pfizer, Photocure, Sensocure, Weill Cornell Medicine and multiple NHS Trusts.