EmergingMed

What EmergingMed does

EmergingMed is a Durham, North Carolina-based clinical trial navigation and matching service that helps patients find and connect with potentially relevant clinical trials based on structured health profile questionnaires. The web-based platform is organized around three core components: a "View Trials" browsing interface, a "Match to Trials" feature driven by patient-completed Patient Profiles, and a staff-assisted "Clinical Trial Navigators" service that provides personalized guidance and, with patient consent, shares referral information directly with clinical trial sites. The product is delivered through the primary app.emergingmed.com domain and is also embedded in partner websites and mobile applications, extending reach to patients already engaged with health-related platforms. The technical foundation consists of a web-based patient profile and questionnaire system, a clinical trial matching algorithm, a human navigator channel, and secure hosting infrastructure located near Chicago, Illinois, with encryption for third-party data transmissions.

The service is offered free to patients, indicating a non-consumer monetization model — likely referral fees, sponsor relationships, or site-side billing — though no pricing, contracts, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed. EmergingMed operates as Final Four Health Solutions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carebox Healthcare Solutions, Inc., positioning it within a broader healthcare technology group. The company maintains GDPR, EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield compliance as a Data Controller, enabling cross-border processing of EU and Swiss subject data. Headcount is in the 11–50 range, consistent with a small, operationally focused organization rather than a scaling enterprise. The company has been continuously operating since founding in 2000, with a single recorded funding round from Advantage Capital in 2005.

Name

EmergingMed

Legal name

EmergingMed

Website

https://app.emergingmed.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

EmergingMed operates a web-based clinical trial navigation and matching platform that helps patients find relevant trials via structured profile questionnaires and staff-assisted Clinical Trial Navigators, and distributes the service through partner websites and applications. The company is a Carebox Healthcare Solutions subsidiary based in Durham, NC.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment / Matching

NAICS

Other Ambulatory Health Care Services (6219)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Precision Clinical Trials Enablement (patient matching, site matching, adaptive trials) (HLAAANAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Site Identification & Feasibility (HLAGACAB)

Keywords

• Clinical trial matching
• Patient recruitment platform
• Clinical trial navigation
• Trial eligibility matching
• Healthcare enrollment services

Headquarters

HQ city

Durham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

EmergingMed operates a web-based clinical trial matching and referral platform that helps patients identify and connect with relevant clinical trials based on structured Patient Profile questionnaire responses. The service combines a self-serve search/match experience with staff-assisted Clinical Trial Navigator support and is delivered through the company's website and partner platforms. Patients access the service free of charge, with optional consent-based sharing of referral data to clinical trial sites.

Product overview

EmergingMed offers a unified clinical trial navigation platform consisting of multiple integrated components: the core Clinical Trial Navigation Service enables patients to View Trials and Match to Trials based on health profiles. The Patient Profiles feature collects questionnaire responses to facilitate personalized matching. Clinical Trial Navigators provide staff-assisted support, while the Request a Contact feature enables direct communication between patients and navigators or trial sites.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EmergingMed Clinical Trial Navigation Service

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Antidote (formerly TrialReach): Antidote operates a digital patient recruitment platform that matches patients to clinical trials via structured questionnaires and condition-specific landing pages. It directly competes with EmergingMed across patient-side matching and sponsor-side recruitment services.
• SubjectWell: SubjectWell recruits patients for clinical trials via a network of online patient communities and a concierge service. It competes with EmergingMed on patient acquisition and matched referrals for sponsor trials.
• BBK Worldwide: BBK Worldwide is a long-established patient recruitment and engagement firm for clinical trials, offering both digital and human-supported matching. It overlaps with EmergingMed's Clinical Trial Navigator service and sponsor-facing recruitment work.
• Power (formerly Patient Alliance): Power provides centralized clinical trial patient recruitment services, including site-based and community-based enrollment support for pharma and CRO sponsors. It is comparable to EmergingMed's navigator and site-referral distribution channels.
• Deep 6 AI: Deep 6 AI uses AI and NLP to mine EHR data for patient-trial matching, selling to providers and sponsors. It is a direct competitor to EmergingMed's patient matching proposition, with more advanced AI/clinical-data capabilities.

Emerging players

• Massive Bio: Massive Bio provides AI-driven oncology patient matching and clinical trial enrollment services to pharma sponsors. It overlaps with EmergingMed's trial matching functionality but with a narrower oncology focus.
• Clara Health: Clara Health is a patient-facing platform that assists individuals in finding and enrolling in clinical trials. It overlaps with EmergingMed's matching and navigator offering with a stronger direct-to-consumer approach.
• XpertDox: XpertDox runs AI-enabled clinical trial matching and rare disease databases. It is comparable to EmergingMed's matching algorithm and patient profiles but with an emphasis on rare and genetic conditions.

Broad incumbents

• IQVIA: IQVIA is one of the largest global CROs and offers patient recruitment, site identification, and real-world data products as part of its broad clinical operations portfolio. It competes with EmergingMed in sponsor recruitment, but as a diversified mega-vendor rather than a niche specialist.

Others

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH/NLM): ClinicalTrials.gov is the public registry of clinical trials operated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. While not a commercial competitor, it is the underlying data source and consumer-facing search entry point that EmergingMed's matching builds on top of, making it an adjacent ecosystem participant.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/emergingmed

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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