A History of Success

Founded in 1992 as ReQuest Technologies, Inc., Authentrics has a long and successful history in developing software applications.

Authentrics has developed applications in a variety of areas, including artificial intelligence, natural language processing, IVR (interactive voice response) systems, web enabled database sites, and pen based handheld computer programs.

Our primary focus during the 1990's, was in the area of clinical data management. We developed two significant systems for managing double blind clinical trials, TeleTrial, and StudyPharm. TeleTrial was an IVR based system, developed for a client, running on a hybrid network of UNIX and Windows computers, backed by an Oracle database. It utilized an application generation language called "RPL", or Rulebased Programming Language, developed specifically for clinical trial IVR interviewing by David Quinn-Jacobs.

With experience gained on TeleTrial, Authentrics went on to develop StudyPharm, an application service for hosting clinical trials for multiple clients. StudyPharm was developed on an ultra low-cost, open source platform comprising Linux, Postgres, Sphinx speech recognition from Carnegie Mellon University, Intel servers and conventional voice modems. Using distributed databases, each client study was hosted on one or more dedicated servers, scaled to match the needs of the study.

Our clinical trials clients have included large clients such as Pfizer, Inc., Merck and Harvard Clinical Research Institute.