Bond Health vs Power

Why do sites choose Bond over Power?

• The patients you already treat. Bond connects to the site's own EHR, including Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, Veradigm and OncoEMR, and screens every chart in scope against the protocol, reading clinical notes, prescriptions, lab results, imaging data and other unstructured documents, with the chart evidence behind each criterion.^⁠[1],[2] Power's sponsor program matches patients from its own opted-in community, who share their medical records with Power.^⁠[5]
• Agents that start from the chart. Bond's voice agents start from what Identify found in the chart, so they skip questions the chart already answers, can explain why the patient was contacted, and can pre-screen and book a visit in one conversation. Conversations run in the patient's language, including English, Spanish and Mandarin, and can switch languages mid-call. Patients can reach a person at any time: the agent transfers the call live to a coordinator or books a human callback, whichever the site prefers.^⁠[2]
• Consent support in the same workflow. Bond explains the consent form in plain language, answers patient questions, escalates to staff, checks the patient's understanding of key points and keeps an auditable record for the site. Bond's site cites 90%+ completion, and the site and PI obtain consent. See Consent.^⁠[1],[2] Patient-facing consent support is not publicly documented in Power's materials (September 2026).
• Support until close-out. After enrollment, the same voice and SMS agents send visit reminders, book transportation, collect symptoms and diaries, run side-effect check-ins and flag participants at risk of dropping out, and Bond keeps improving outreach messaging until study close-out.^⁠[2]
• Any study, any therapeutic area. Screening is configured from each protocol's own criteria, so it works for drug and device studies alike, in any therapeutic area.^⁠[2],[1] Power's sponsor page focuses on Phase 2/3 CNS and I&I trials.^⁠[5]
• Live in 48 hours, with no integration fee. Bond's team handles the EHR integration end to end, typically in 48 hours, and Bond is a CRIO Certified Partner with direct integrations with CTMS and calendars. Pricing is a volume-based platform fee plus a success fee per randomized patient, with no integration fee. See pricing.^{⁠[1],[2],[3]}
• Ads when you need more patients. For studies that need patients beyond your records, Bond sets up Meta and Google ad campaigns, and those leads flow into the same pre-screening and scheduling as EHR matches.^⁠[2]

As of September 2026, Bond is the only vendor in our comparison table whose public materials describe software that reads EHR notes against a protocol, contacts patients by voice and text, and supports informed consent.

How do Bond and Power compare, capability by capability?

Bond entries come from Bond's own materials. Each Power entry carries the year of its source. "Not publicly documented" means we found no public description as of September 2026, not that the capability does not exist; ask Power directly.

Both products check eligibility against a protocol's criteria before a patient reaches the site.^⁠[1],[5] Bond does it in the site's own EHR, for the patients the site already treats, then carries each patient through outreach, pre-screening, scheduling and consent support in the same workflow. See Identify, Engage and Consent.^⁠[1]

Can Bond do what Power is known for?

Power's pages emphasize eligibility checked against medical records, outreach by phone, text and AI voice agents, appointment booking and travel coordination, and matching across a site's trials.^{⁠[5],[8],[7]} Here is how Bond covers each one.

• Eligibility checked against medical records. Power queries the records patients share against a protocol's inclusion and exclusion criteria.^⁠[5] Bond reads the site's own EHR, including clinical notes, prescriptions, lab results, imaging data and other unstructured documents, and shows the chart evidence behind each criterion decision.^⁠[1],[2]
• Calls, texts and AI voice agents. Power describes calls, texts, emails and an AI call center.^⁠[5] Bond's voice and SMS/text agents contact and pre-screen patients, starting from what Identify found in the chart, in the patient's language with mid-call switching, and transfer live to a coordinator or book a callback. Reminders can go by text, voice or email.^⁠[2] Bond's site cites a 3x contact rate.^⁠[1]
• Appointment booking and travel. Power describes appointment booking and travel coordination.^⁠[5] Bond's agents book screening visits into the site's calendar, and after enrollment they book transportation and send visit reminders.^⁠[1],[2]
• Matching across a site's trials. Power's provider tool shows how well each patient qualifies for each of a site's trials.^⁠[7] Bond screens each patient against every open study at the site, so a patient who screens out of one study can be matched to another.^⁠[2]

Bond also supports informed consent and keeps participants engaged after enrollment, in the same workflow. See Consent and Engage.^⁠[1],[2]

How can you test Bond against Power on your own study?

Bond welcomes a head-to-head pilot. Power refers patients from its community, and Bond finds them in your EHR, so run both on the same protocol at the same site and compare what reaches your coordinators.

1. 1

   Pick one protocol

   Choose an enrolling study where coordinators already know who enrolled, who screen-failed and why.

2. 2

   Screen your EHR with Bond

   Bond signs a business associate agreement before any patient data is shared; see security. Have coordinators adjudicate a sample of ranked matches, including borderline cases, against the chart evidence for each criterion.

3. 3

   Track every source to randomization

   Record referrals and matches from each source, first contact, pre-screen passes, screening visits, screen failures and randomizations, so the comparison stays like for like.

4. 4

   Read the conversations

   Audit call and text transcripts for AI disclosure, handoffs to staff and opt-outs. Confirm that each patient agreed to be contacted by text or phone (see TCPA) and that your IRB reviewed the scripts; the guide to IRB and HIPAA rules for patient outreach covers the details.

5. 5

   Compare cost per randomized patient

   Add up each option's fees and the coordinator hours spent on outreach, scheduling and consent, then divide by the patients randomized. Bond's success fee is paid only for randomized patients; see pricing.^⁠[1],[2]

Our vendor checklist for AI recruitment tools turns these steps into vendor questions, and the recruitment software comparison covers other tools in the category.

How was this comparison made?

Bond Health wrote this page in September 2026. Statements about Power come only from its public web pages for patients, sponsors, research sites and providers, read on September 29, 2026, each cited with its year. Statements about Bond come from Bond's website, product information from Bond Health and an April 2026 presentation to the ACRP New Jersey chapter. We did not test Power's product and used no private or internal information about Power. Where Power's materials are silent on a capability, we say it is not publicly documented rather than guess. Bond Health is not affiliated with or endorsed by Power.