For Clinical Researchers
Validated instruments plus continuous real-world data, in one dataset.
Episodic ePRO and REDCap capture your validated instruments at intervals, and nothing between them. Forma administers the same instruments with the reminders and async capture that lift completion, then adds continuous real-world data around them: daily logs, wearable data, automatic location-linked context, and patient-submitted images. One normalized dataset, structured for clinical-trial submission, and yours to export.
Custom demo · Your condition · Your endpoints
One Longitudinal Record, Every Data Type
Build the complete picture
A validated DLQI survey captures one answer for the whole week. In the days between, Forma keeps the same patient producing every data type that explains it: their own words, structured symptoms, wearable biometrics, environment, photos, and medication. Here are two days of one record, then the whole study.
When the survey is taken · episodic
Over the last week, how much has your skin made it difficult for you to do any sport?
One answer for the whole week. Nothing about which days, why, or what changed.
Every day in between · continuous, every data type
Verbal log
“I wasn’t able to go on a run today because I had three cracks on my feet which were really painful.”
Symptom inputs
Function & activity
Heart rate · wearable
Environment
Patient photo
Medication & adherence
Verbal log
“I was able to go on a run today because I do not have any cracks on my feet after using the study topical over the last few days.”
Symptom inputs
Function & activity
Heart rate · wearable
Environment
Patient photo
Medication & adherence
Across the study · trends & patterns
Flare activity over 12 weeks
The same measures, captured continuously between the two visits
Zoom out and the record reveals what a snapshot can’t: flares come and go, treatment takes hold, and the triggers behind each move become visible. Trends you can actually analyze.
Same patient, one study. Episodic tools see two dots, weeks apart. Forma sees the flares rise and resolve, the treatment take hold, and the triggers behind every move, every data type on one continuous, analysis-ready record.
Validated Instruments
Any validated instrument, configured in hours
Forma runs your study's validated instruments on schedule and surrounds them with continuous, real-world data. We configure instruments per protocol, most are live within hours. Below is a sample of what researchers run on Forma; if you don't see yours, it's almost certainly something we can build.
Cross-condition
Mental health, sleep & pain
Epilepsy
Neuromuscular & Pompe
Dermatology
Oncology
Cardiology
Instrument licensing is handled through your study or through Forma, confirmed during configuration.
Don't see your instrument? Tell us what your protocol needs. We'll confirm a configuration timeline, usually measured in hours.
Who We Serve
Purpose-built for every stage of clinical research
Foundations & Advocacy Groups
"Build the dataset pharma will license."
- Custom app for community symptom tracking
- High-fidelity longitudinal data, structured for clinical-trial submission
- Foundation controls data; pharma licenses separately
- Setup and validation done in only days
Academic PIs & KOLs
"Pioneer insights and improve outcomes."
- Track daily fluctuations and specific patient outcomes
- Capture context and environmental input
- Fill in the gaps around your validated instruments
- Automated reminders that improve adherence
Pharma
"Understand factors that impact individual patient responses."
- Structured, traceable data built to pass a data-governance review
- Reduce respondent burden and increase patient participation
- Proactive adverse event detection
- Seamlessly connect to existing data tools
Why Researchers Choose Forma
Purpose-built to replace tools that weren't designed for longitudinal patient data
vs
REDCap
Free but costly in data quality
- Automated reminders (vs. manual follow-up)
- Mobile-first patient experience
- Built-in correlation analytics
- 27-40% less missing data
vs
Enterprise ePRO
Medidata, Signant, Clario, overbuilt, overpriced
- Deploy in <8 weeks (vs. 3-6 months)
- Purpose-built for Phase 4 and academic
- Built-in analytics and visit-prep
- Fraction of the cost
vs
Hospital PRO Platforms
PatientIQ, CODE, hospital-focused, not research-grade
- Research-grade data + clinical utility
- Cross-segment applicability
- Patient value = engagement = better data
- FHIR-native and interoperable
Use Cases
Your validated instruments captured as primary or secondary endpoint measures, with continuous real-world data filling every gap between visits.
Site visits and at-home reporting merge into one dataset, with reminders that sustain retention even when there's no site at all.
Map disease progression day to day, structured for clinical-trial submission.
Follow the same patients across months and years as one continuous record, not a series of disconnected snapshots.
Prove your protocol and patient engagement work before scaling into a funded trial or cohort.
Patient-reported evidence anchored to your validated instruments, how patients actually do day to day, not inferred from claims data.
Long-term outcomes and patient-reported events, captured continuously and ready for your safety team to review.
Why Forma for Research
Better data starts with better collection
Faster path to ‘why’
Your validated instruments tell you what changed, but rarely why. Forma captures 100× more data points around them, so when results surprise you, you have the granularity to investigate causes, not just correlations.
Insights from the start
With Forma, patient-entered data is normalized, structured, and mapped to international vocabularies within seconds. Start developing insights while the trial is in progress — don’t wait for end-of-study data processing.
Research-grade data quality
CONSORT-PRO and SPIRIT-PRO compliant by default. Data maps to FHIR, SNOMED, and common data models. Built for regulatory submissions, interoperability, and future meta-analysis.
Security & Compliance
Built to pass a data-governance review
Forma is designed for the procurement and IRB checklists that pharma sponsors and academic institutions run before adopting a collection platform, with precise claims, signed agreements, and data you keep.
HIPAA-compliant collection
Direct-to-patient consent with secure, HIPAA-compliant storage. We execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) before any PHI changes hands.
Encrypted end to end
All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with access controls and audit logging across the platform.
SOC-attested infrastructure
Built on AWS infrastructure attested to SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3. Forma inherits those independently audited controls.
Continuous monitoring
Automated systems maintain ongoing compliance and surface drift, rather than relying on point-in-time checks.
You own your data
Data ownership stays with the institution, full export, no lock-in, clear governance.
Submission-ready output
Structured, normalized, and traceable, provided in a form your team can carry into a clinical-trial submission.
SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 attestation refers to the underlying AWS infrastructure Forma is built on. Specific documentation (BAA, security overview, IRB model) is available on request during due diligence.
See how Forma configures for your study
Custom demo with your condition, your endpoints, your data needs, set up in under an hour.