Recognising the patient trajectory

inAdvance – earlier disease signals

Many patients show no signs a clinician would currently recognise, even as a disease develops. By the time symptoms appear or a diagnosis is confirmed, the disease may already be established and the window for changing its course narrower. This gap is wider for some conditions than others, particularly those that develop silently or fall outside routine screening.

inAdvance moves that point earlier. By surfacing who is likely to see their condition progress or need intervention sooner, it widens the window in which treatment can change the course of a disease.

inAdvance, finding patients earlier

Why early detection matters

A disease that develops silently still creates a burden on the patient and the healthcare system.

Diagnosis usually follows symptoms, which usually follow disease progression, so treatment often starts only once a disease is established and harder to change. Patients diagnosed early tend to have better outcomes, fewer complications and a higher quality of life; those diagnosed late carry a cost that rarely shows up as a missed diagnosis, because clinicians can only act on what they can see.

The human cost
of delay

Clinicians and health systems want to find every patient while treatment can still change a disease's course, wherever they enter care.
In a retrospective GEP-NET study, likely-undiagnosed patients were on average five to seven years younger than diagnosed patients: a signal that earlier recognition may be possible.

The uncredited value
of prevention

Market access and HTA teams want every avoided complication and year of stable health reflected in the price and funding a treatment secures.
inAdvance research models disease trajectories across populations. One inAdvance study, covering more than 340,000 patients in retrospective data, was reviewed by independent clinicians in two separate patient cohorts.

The evidence bar
for prognosis

Trial teams and regulators want predictive models that hold up under independent scrutiny before they change enrolment or submission decisions.
inAdvance's model flags predicted clinical outcomes with accuracy to clinicians. This has been confirmed across two independent patient cohorts.

Where inAdvance creates value

Impact across the product lifecycle​

inAdvance finding patients earlier, Volv Global

How inAdvance works

Studying disease before symptoms appear

inAdvance applies Volv Global’s proprietary machine learning to population-scale real-world data, including electronic health records, claims data and other clinical sources, detecting subtle patterns that signal a disease developing before conventional symptoms appear.

Drawing on structured and unstructured records to build a fuller picture of a person’s health, researching the subtle patterns in structured and unstructured records that precede conventional symptoms.

What people ask

Questions about earlier disease detection

A: inAdvance applies Volv Global's proprietary machine learning to population-scale real-world data, including biomarkers, electronic health records and other clinical data. It surfaces subtle patterns that signal a disease developing before conventional symptoms appear, so intervention can begin sooner.

A: Earlier detection gives clinicians and patients more time to act. Treatment started before a disease is established can change its course, and clinical trials that recruit from an earlier-stage population can test whether intervention works before symptoms take hold.

A: inAdvance supports clinical development teams estimating the scale of an early-stage population, HEOR and market access teams building the case for earlier diagnosis, medical affairs teams connecting earlier detection to outcomes, and commercial teams pinpointing where earlier intervention delivers the most value, often alongside inCare to find patients who are already eligible for treatment.

A: No. inAdvance is in research and development. It is not a medical device and is not used to diagnose, prioritise or treat individual patients.

A: Volv Global does not hold patient data. All work is conducted through trusted data partners operating under the privacy and regulatory frameworks that apply in each market. inAdvance surfaces and prioritises patients for clinical attention; it does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace clinical judgement.

Shaping the future today

Real-world impact​