We manage over 25,000 chain and independent pharmacies as a single network. Consumers consistently rank pharmacists as the most trusted healthcare professionals. With an emphasis on clinical trial recruitment, the Direct Access program places pharmacies at the center of efforts to provide HIPAA-compliant direct-to-patient educational and recruitment services.

Direct Access uses pre-screening activities and a variety of tactics to recruit pre-selected candidates into clinical trials. Direct Access has a number of advantages over traditional media-driven patient recruitment programs, including:

• Patient segmentation, by disease and/or treatment, for message delivery only to the right "eligible patient"
• Multiple messaging tactics at pharmacies or community health fairs to optimize patient communications
• Only prequalified referrals to sites