What You Should Know:
- 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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Science 37, physIQ Collaborate to Enhance Clinical Trial Data Collected from Connected Devices
What You Should Know:
- 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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Pfizer, BioNTech Launches Clinical Trial for Omicron-Specific COVID-19 Vaccine
What You Should Know:
- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced the initiation of a clinical trial study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of an Omicron-based vaccine candidate in healthy adults 18 through 55 years of age.
- The study will have three cohorts examining different regimens of the current Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or an Omicron-based vaccine. The study will draw upon some participants from the companies’ Phase 3 COVID-19
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Philips Launches First At-Home, 12-Lead ECG Integrated Solution for Decentralized Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Philips introduced the industry’s first full-service, at-home, 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) solution for use in decentralized clinical trials.
- The solution is the most advanced patient-centric ECG offering within the company’s cardiac monitoring portfolio, pairing data readings comparable to clinical, site-based ECGs with Philips leading cloud-based data collection and analysis services.
Patient Attrition Issues
Patient attrition is one of the biggest
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Implementing Responsible AI to Drive Innovation in Clinical Research & Precision Medicine
Researchers might be skeptical and, with people’s lives at stake, that’s understandable. Here’s how to take advantage of the advances while ensuring safeguards are in place.
As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning drive innovation and disruption in clinical trials and precision medicine, questions around the responsible use of AI have moved to the forefront of debates among healthcare stakeholders – patients, providers, regulatory authorities, payors and sponsors. To what extent,
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Alphabet’s Verily + L’Oréal Partner to Advance Precision Skin Health
What You Should Know:
- Today, Alphabet’s Verily, a world leader in personalized medicine, and L’Oréal, the world leader in beauty, joined forces to lead a new era of precision skin health.
- The first-of-its-kind partnership in the beauty industry aims to break down barriers to dermatology care and bring new insights to dermatologists that can help improve health outcomes for the nearly two billion people worldwide with skin issues.
Strategic Partnership Addresses Unmet Need in
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Theranica Publishes Largest Ever Real-World Study of a Migraine Device
What You Should Know:
- Theranica, a prescribed digital therapeutics company developing advanced electroceuticals for migraine and other pain conditions, announced today the publication of a new peer-reviewed study analyzing the efficacy, safety and sustainability of remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) as a standalone, and medication adjunct, treatment of migraine.
- The real-world evidence study published in Frontiers in Pain Research Journal concludes that REN, administered by
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Platform Launches to Help Eliminate Biases in Decentralized Trials
What You Should Know:
- Obviohealth, a decentralized clinical trial platform, has launched a new AI-assisted clinical raters platform to eliminate biases from trials.
The platform Augmented ePRO (electronic patient-reported outcomes), has been designed to assist clinical raters to better score patient outcomes, without biases.
Why It Matters
As more trials take place virtually or decentralized, clinical researchers are at the mercy of the quality of the information provided by the
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Topography Health Launches out of Stealth with $27.5M to Empower Community Physicians to Run Clinical Drug Trials
What You Should Know:
- Topography Health, a clinical trials startup focused on community physicians, today launched out of stealth with $27.5M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures.
- Co-founded by former Gerson Lehrman Group CEO Alexander Saint-Amand, Topography is making it possible for your family doctor to offer clinical drug trials as part of their practice. Not just for potentially terminal illnesses, but also for moderate chronic illnesses, where the
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