FLOWER: Following Longitudinal Outcomes With Epidemiology for Rare Diseases

Description

FLOWER is a completely virtual, nationwide, real-world observational study to collect, annotate, standardize, and report clinical data for rare diseases. Patients participate in the study by electronic consent (eConsent) and sign a medical records release to permit data collection. Medical records are accessed from institutions directly via eFax or paper fax, online from patient electronic medical record (EMR) portals, direct from DNA/RNA sequencing and molecular profiling vendors, and via electronic health information exchanges. Patients and their treating physicians may also optionally provide medical records. Medical records are received in or converted to electronic/digitized formats (CCDA, FHIR, PDF), sorted by medical record type (clinic visit, in-patient hospital, out-patient clinic, infusion and out-patient pharmacies, etc.) and made machine-readable to support data annotation, full text searches, and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to further facilitate feature identification.

Conditions

Alpha-Thalassemia, Beta-Thalassemia, Amyloidosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Huntington Disease, Gaucher Disease, GM1 Gangliosidosis, Myasthenia Gravis, Pompe Disease, Sickle Cell Disease, Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy, Rare Diseases

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

FLOWER is a completely virtual, nationwide, real-world observational study to collect, annotate, standardize, and report clinical data for rare diseases. Patients participate in the study by electronic consent (eConsent) and sign a medical records release to permit data collection. Medical records are accessed from institutions directly via eFax or paper fax, online from patient electronic medical record (EMR) portals, direct from DNA/RNA sequencing and molecular profiling vendors, and via electronic health information exchanges. Patients and their treating physicians may also optionally provide medical records. Medical records are received in or converted to electronic/digitized formats (CCDA, FHIR, PDF), sorted by medical record type (clinic visit, in-patient hospital, out-patient clinic, infusion and out-patient pharmacies, etc.) and made machine-readable to support data annotation, full text searches, and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to further facilitate feature identification.

FLOWER: Following Longitudinal Outcomes With Epidemiology for Rare Diseases

FLOWER: Following Longitudinal Outcomes With Epidemiology for Rare Diseases

Condition
Alpha-Thalassemia
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Los Altos

xCures, Los Altos, California, United States, 94022

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Any person with a known or suspected rare disease, defined by their prevalence of fewer than 200,000 individuals nationwide. Diseases include but are not limited to:
  • * Patient or LAR is unable to provide informed consent.
  • * Patient resides in a country other than the United States and is unable to provide access to medical records.

Ages Eligible for Study

to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

xCures,

Study Record Dates

2026-06-10