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- Medable Inc., a Palo Alto, CA-based provider for patient-centered clinical trials, today launched the Medable Partner Network – uniting a diverse ecosystem of technology, service, data, site, and direct-to-patient partners that work together to accelerate deployment of decentralized clinical trials.
- The network includes new partnerships with Advanced Clinical, Cognizant, and CVS, and expanded relationships with Datavant, Oracle, Parexel, PPD, part of
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Lucira Health Secures $80M to Expand COVID-19 Test Kit
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- Lucira Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: LHDX), a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of transformative and innovative infectious disease test kits, today announced it has secured a debt facility of up to $80M with Hercules Capital, Inc. and Silicon Valley Bank.
- Lucira's COVID-19 testing platform produces lab-quality molecular testing in a single-use, consumer-friendly, palm-size test kit powered by two AA batteries. The FDA EUA
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C2i Genomics, Twist Bioscience Partner to Develop Whole-Genome Cancer Reference Materials
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- Today, Twist Bioscience and cancer genomics startup C2i Genomics announced a partnership to develop whole-genome cancer reference materials.
- This resource will provide diagnostic labs around the globe with the ability to better validate and monitor the quality of their whole-genome cancer screening and minimal residual disease (MRD) products for more accurate cancer detection.
C2i to integrate Twist’s library preparation kits into minimal residual
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Koda Health Raises $3.5M to Expand Advance Directives Platform
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- Koda Health, a Houston, TX-based advance directives platform empowering patients to take control of their healthcare journey raises $3.5M in seed funding led by Ecliptic Capital alongside participation from Headwater Ventures, Sigmas Capital, CRCM, and a number of angel investors. The funding will be used to double the size of Koda's team over the next six months and expand operations to all 50 states.
- Most commonly found Advance Directives are not detailed
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CVS Health Taps Medable to Bring Decentralized Clinical Trials to Pharmacies Nationwide
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- Medable and CVS Health announced a strategic collaboration that will make clinical research more accessible to patients of all demographics. Using Medable’s decentralized trial platform available to CVS Health’s thousands of community MinuteClinics nationwide, most people will be within just five minutes of a decentralized clinical trial research site – finally busting the longstanding barrier to research for millions of Americans
- Where applicable, CVS Health will
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Medidata, Parexel Expands Partnership to Enhance Decentralized Clinical Trial Delivery
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- Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company and Parexel, a global clinical research organization (CRO) focused on development and delivery of innovative new therapies to advance patient health extends their 15-year global strategic partnership. This extension includes gaining access to Medidata’s continued innovations in clinical trial technology solutions with its unified platform, support of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), the myMedidata patient portal, Sensor
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UBC Partners with Seqster to Advance Patient-Centric Clinical Trials
- UBC, late-stage research and patient support services organization partners with Seqster PDM, Inc. ("Seqster"), a patient-centric healthcare technology company, to provide nationwide health record interoperability with patient engagement.
- UBC will utilize the technology to enable clinical and observational research to transition from traditional site-based studies to decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). Seqster's turnkey white label solution facilitates the rapid move to a fully
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Hackensack Meridian Health Launches Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center
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- Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's largest and most integrated health network launches of Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, a program that delivers high-quality acute care in the home of a Medicare patient and may ultimately be scalable to the larger patient population. The program was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals struggling with bed capacity. In November 2020, the Centers for
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Science 37, physIQ Collaborate to Enhance Clinical Trial Data Collected from Connected Devices
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- Science 37, a leader in agile clinical trials, and physIQ Inc, a leader in digital medicine, announced their alliance to help researchers use remote biosensors and machine learning to build more robust data sets.
- The partnership will help boost the number of digital biomarkers and generate insights from continuous data streams to indicate the safety and efficacy of new clinical treatments more quickly and objectively.
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Withings Acquires Health and Fitness App 8Fit to Strengthen Personalized Wellness Capabilities
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- Withings, the leader in at-home connected health, today announced the acquisition of 8fit, worldwide health, fitness, and wellness app with more than 40 million downloads. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition is part of a $30M investment Withings is announcing over the next three years in its strategy to combine cutting-edge medical devices with personal health and wellness plans. This news follows last month’s announcement of
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