What You Should Know:
- CVS Health announced plans to expand COVID-19 testing
services by offering rapid-result testing at select CVS Pharmacy locations and
through the company’s return to work COVID-19 testing solution, Return Ready.
- Rapid-result tests can help to slow the spread of the virus, especially when combined with other preventive measures including social distancing and “mask-wearing” because it provides patients with the opportunity for a quick diagnosis, appropriate
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LabCorp Launches Fully Integrated Clinical Trial Platform to Streamline Drug Development Process
What You Should Know:
- LabCorp launches fully integrated clinical trial platform to streamline the drug development process featuring
- The new clinical trial platform will deliver dramatic reductions in patient and study site administrative tasks, improve trial resiliency, and maintain study continuity through the use of the company’s data, technology, and direct-to-patient outreach capabilities.
Global life sciences company LabCorp today announced new capabilities that
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Ori Biotech Lands $30M for Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Platform
What You Should Know:
- Biotech startup Ori Biotech raises $30M in Series A
funding to scale its cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing platform.
- Ori Biotech helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies
develop and manufacture cell and gene therapies. Its patented technology aims
to reduce the manufacturing cost of these life-saving treatments by up to 80%,
allowing them to be more widely accessible for patients.
Ori Biotech Ltd (Ori),
a leading innovator in cell and gene therapy
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Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?
Glucometrics – the system-wide analysis of inpatient glucose data – should be of fundamental interest for hospital administrators striving to improve the outcomes of their patients.
Why is this data so important? Proper glycemic control has been linked to improved outcomes and decreased length of stay time and time again across a myriad of conditions – whether it’s someone recuperating from a heart attack, battling pneumonia, or recovering from surgery.
The U.S. health system lacks
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Growth in the Adoption of 3D Printing Technology After COVID-19 Isn’t A Coincidence
The concerning additive manufacturing media keeps on getting notifications about how the 3D printing technology keeps on growing. Both, through news stories, as well as through blogs from the 3D printing community. However, only after the coronavirus pandemic spread enough, people realized how other manufacturing options are not as effective as 3D printing is. More and more news stories about how 3D printers can work as a solution to supply chain challenges came to the notice of people. And, all
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LexaGene Raises $13.29M to Launch Automated Genetic Analyzer Device
What You Should Know:
- LexaGene's closes CAD$13 million funding round as it
prepares to launch its gold standard diagnostic device called MiQLab that
applies a proprietary RT-qPCR-based method to analyze each sample's contents
for up to 27 different pathogens in approximately one hour.
- MiQLab is uniquely open-access, which allows users to
customize their tests and create new tests easily. In the case where a new test
was needed because of a mutation, the open-access feature allows new
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FUJIFILM Sonosite & the CHEST Foundation Partner for COVID-19 Research
What You Should Know:
- FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc. today announced their
partnership with the CHEST Foundation, the charitable foundation of the
American College of Chest Physicians, on the CHEST Foundation COVID-19 Research
Grant program.
- To support this program, FUJIFILM Sonosite is contributing $70,000 to the foundation and will donate newly launched Sonosite PX ultrasound systems to the selected research award sites.
FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc.,
the world leader in
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UCSD Partners with Cofactor Genomics to Improve Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- Physicians at the University of California, San Diego
(UCSD) School of Medicine and Cofactor Genomics ink a partnership to improve a
physician’s ability to predict tumor response to immunotherapy, specifically in
recurrent and metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
- The data generated in this collaboration will further
expand clinical evidence presented by Washington University physicians, where
Cofactor’s technology showed superiority over the
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Uniphore CEO Talks Call Centers & Why Contact Tracing is Failing
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, all call centers have now been asked to play a vital role, acting as the hubs for contact tracing to help track and contain the spread of the virus. It’s estimated that the U.S. needs to employ 100,000 to 300,000 contact tracers for this to be an effective program. However, call center representatives that have a healthcare background and are trained to handle these sensitive calls are in short supply, so states have had to get “creative about finding the workforce.”
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KPMG Launches COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Donor Matching Solution
What You Should Know:
- KPMG offers its data & analytics capabilities to
address emerging challenges tied to matching recovered patients with those in
clinical trials to receive convalescent plasma.
- KPMG’s capabilities can make the plasma donation process easier
and more efficient by automating the complex tasks and logistics associated
with the data collection, qualification and matching process by performing
statistical analytics, and using artificial intelligence (AI),
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