Case Study: Keck School of Medicine of USC achieves faster clinical trial activation with Pluto7 and Google Cloud

The Keck School of Medicine of USC Accelerating clinical trials using ML

The Keck School of Medicine of USC needed to modernize its highly manual Medicare Coverage Analysis and clinical trial management processes, which were slowing trial activation and creating administrative bottlenecks. It worked with Looker and Pluto7’s Google Cloud-based analytics and machine learning capabilities to improve access to real-time data and streamline trial administration.

Looker helped support a solution that used machine learning to automate billing-category decisions and speed up complex research workflows. The result was a major efficiency gain: the school cut clinical trial approval steps by 30%, reduced activation time by 50%, accelerated Medicare Coverage Analysis from days to milliseconds, and achieved 70–90% accuracy in billing designation.

Keck School of Medicine of USC