AI for accelerated
clinical trial recruitment
Bitfount pre-screens your clinic's OCT, fundus and EHR data behind your firewall. Your study team is notified the moment a patient meets a trial's full criteria, and doctors can confirm eligibility in seconds during the appointment.
All on-premise - No patient data leaves your clinic.
Never miss another eligible patient
Designed for existing clinic workflows
Every historical and scheduled patient is checked against every active trial's full criteria, imaging and EHR, before they arrive. Your team is told the moment a match is found, not after the patient has gone home.
Scale research with your existing patient population
Coordinators get a pre-screened list instead of hours of chart review, turning half a day into about 45 minutes. Run more trials at higher conversion without additional workload for your team.
The only AI pre-screening that runs on-premise
Other tools make you transfer all your data to their cloud first, giving them access to it. Bitfount sends the AI to your data instead, so nothing leaves your firewall, and there's no data sharing agreement to negotiate.
Ophthalmology specialisation, validated in live retina trials
Bitfount runs AI imaging models that analyse OCT and fundus imaging alongside your EHR for trials in GA, Dry AMD, nAMD, DR, DME, Glaucoma and more.
2.3× enrolment
AI pre-screening doubled patient enrolment and halved screen failures in a live geographic atrophy trial.
Read the ARVO 2026 paper
Imaging AI vs EHR only
Imaging AI surfaced eligible GA patients that record review alone missed, without any data leaving the hospital.
Read the ARVO 2026 paper
AI pre-screening
On-premise AI validated to identify GA trial patients faster and more accurately, with no patient data leaving the site.
Read full study
Supported formats
How Bitfount fits in a clinic's workflow
Most eligible patients leave your clinic without hearing about the trial they qualify for. Bitfount is designed to automatically analyse and display the recruitment flag to the clinician in time for a patient's appointment.
1. Before patient visits the clinic
All scheduled patients are analysed against every active trial's criteria, using OCT, fundus and EHR data on your own infrastructure. The coordinator starts the day with a ranked list in clinic order: review, confirm, dismiss.
2. In the appointment room
When a flagged patient is in the chair, the doctor sees which trial they match and why in seconds, including same-day imaging. The trial conversation happens while the patient is still in the room.
What is this worth to your practice?
Estimate additional enrolments and sponsor payments from your own trial portfolio.
Clinics ROI calculator
Clinic data stays private
Bitfount runs inside your clinic's network. Imaging and EHR connect locally, only results are surfaced, and patient data never leaves your system.
What PIs and coordinators ask us first
Does any patient data leave our systems?
No. Analysis runs on-premise behind your firewall, and only results and counts reach your team. Because nothing is transferred, there is no data sharing agreement to negotiate.
How much work is this for my staff?
Bitfount runs in the background and notifies your team when an eligible patient is found, so it replaces manual chart and image review rather than adding to it. Coordinators report saving roughly a day a week, reinvested in consents, screening visits and retention.
Do we need IT or a data science team?
Bitfount for clinics is a completely no-code, user-friendly tool. Physicians and research coordinators use Bitfount directly, and IT is only involved for the initial install and connection to your imaging server and EHR.
Which imaging devices and EHRs does it work with?
Bitfount reads 2D and 3D imaging from the major device makers, including Heidelberg, Zeiss, Topcon, Optos and iCare, and connects to the EHRs most practices use: Epic, Oracle Health, Athenahealth, NextGen, ModMed, Nextech and EyeMD. We add integrations on request.
How accurate is the AI?
Sensitivity and specificity vary by indication and criterion. We publish full performance characteristics for each model and validate against held-out datasets before every release. Bitfount is decision support: your coordinators and clinicians remain the decision-makers.
How long does deployment take?
Typically two to three weeks from contract to first patient flag, including integration with your imaging server and EHR. Because nothing leaves your network, no external network changes are required.
What happens to our data if we stop using Bitfount?
Nothing. It was never ours; it stayed on-premise the entire time. If you offboard, we remove the software and your data remains in your systems exactly as it was.
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