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AstraZeneca Selects BrightInsight’s IoT Platform to Focus on Chronic Disease Management

by Jasmine Pennic 03/25/2020 Leave a Comment

AstraZeneca Selects BrightInsight’s IoT Platform to Focus on Chronic Disease Management

What You Should Know: - AstraZeneca selects the BrightInsight Platform to build and manage its digital health solutions within a regulatory-compliant environment  - Digital health represents a major opportunity to alleviate some of the biggest concerns in healthcare today—many of which are being amplified due to COVID 19—including the length and cost of clinical trials, better remote testing, and tracking of patients, access to data and delivery of care.  - AstraZeneca and others are
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Wolters Kluwer, SAS Integrate to Power Real-World Evidence (RWE) Analytics

by Jasmine Pennic 03/03/2020 Leave a Comment

Wolters Kluwer, SAS Integrate to Power Real-World Evidence (RWE) Analytics

- SAS to leverage Wolters Kluwer’s Health Language portfolio of data quality solutions to power real-world evidence (RWE) analytics within SAS Health. - Through a disease-centric approach, Health Language will enable SAS Health’s clients to more effectively manage reference data, such as ICD-10, CPT® and SNOMED CT, establish relationships between clinical and claims data and extract value from unstructured text within the medical record–providing a comprehensive view of a patient’s clinical
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IBM Watson Health Launches Data-Driven Tool to Optimize Clinical Trials

by Fred Pennic 02/18/2020 Leave a Comment

IBM Watson Health Launches Data-Driven Tool to Optimize Clinical Trials

- Today, IBM announced its data-driven tool, IBM Study Advance that optimizes clinical trial protocol design by providing access to real-world patient population data, a collaborative workplace and standardizing protocol template guidance. - IBM Study Advance’s collaborative workspace is designed to allow near real-time collaboration with study design team members who can manage and assign the team to specific sections of the protocol.  IBM Watson Health today unveiled its newest
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LexaGene Launches Genetic Analyzer for Detection of Pathogens like Coronavirus

by Fred Pennic 02/07/2020 Leave a Comment

LexaGene Launches Genetic Analyzer for Detection of Pathogens like Coronavirus

- LexaGene has created a genetic analyzer that can identify specific bacteria and viruses as well as any antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance that they have, within just one hour. - The device does this completely automatically, without the need for trained lab technicians, by amplifying the genetic material in the sample to identify it, rather than waiting for a culture which can take several days.  LexaGene Holdings, Inc., a biotechnology company that develops genetic analyzers
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Verana Health Acquires PYAA Analytics; Raises $100M to Expand Real World Data Insights

by Fred Pennic 02/05/2020 Leave a Comment

Verana Health Acquires PYAA Analytics; Raises $100M to Expand Real World Data Insights

- Verana Health, a health tech company (in the real-world evidence and clinical trials space) is announcing a $100M funding round today — led by GV (with participation by Bain, Define, Brook Byers and others). - Additionally, they acquired Knoxville-based PYAA analytics, a company spun out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to leverage the PYAA team’s capabilities to integrate imaging, genomic, and claims data sources into the existing data platform and link these data with the EHR data
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Notable Launches Observational Clinical Trial for Patients with Blood Cancer

by Fred Pennic 01/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Notable Launches Observational Clinical Trial for Patients with Blood Cancer

 - Notable launches The ANSWer Study, it's new observational clinical trial for patients with blood cancer and is currently enrolling patients.- The primary assessment is to establish a tumor registry with annotated clinical outcomes.Notable, a San Francisco, CA-based company redefining cancer treatment with a clinically validated platform that rapidly advances drug development, is currently enrolling patients in its new observational clinical trial. The clinical trial will take place at
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CVS: 4 Approaches to Reduce The Cost Impact of Gene Therapies

by Jasmine Pennic 01/15/2020 Leave a Comment

- While the life-changing and life-saving potential of gene therapies is tremendously exciting, finding ways to pay for these treatments is a significant challenge for families and payors.- With prices for a single treatment as high as $2 million, many employers are struggling to find ways to offer coverage without bankrupting their health plans, or even their companies.- Newly released CVS Health white paper outlines four key approaches that health plans and employers can utilize to reduce the
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Duke, Deerfield Management Form Four Points Innovation to Invest Up $130M in Drug Discovery

by Fred Pennic 01/06/2020 Leave a Comment

Duke, Deerfield Management Form Four Points Innovation to Invest Up $130M in Drug Discovery

- Duke University and Deerfield Management Company form major translation research collaboration company, Four Points Innovation. - Deerfield will invest up to $130 million of initial funding to accelerate drug discovery at Duke for 10 years. Duke University and Deerfield Management Company, a healthcare investment firm has announced the creation of a major translational research collaboration company, Four Points Innovation. Spearheaded by Duke University’s Office of Licensing &
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Alphabet’s Verily, Emory Healthcare Partner to Leverage Big Data to Optimize Medication & Lab Ordering Patterns

by Fred Pennic 12/26/2019 Leave a Comment

Alphabet’s Verily, Emory Healthcare Partner to Leverage Big Data to Optimize Medication & Lab Ordering Patterns

- Alphabet’s Verily is partnering with Atlanta, GA-based Emory Healthcare on deep analysis of medications and lab ordering patterns for improved diagnosis and treatment at the point of care. - Verily is a subsidiary of Alphabet focused on life sciences and healthcare that develops tools and devices to collect, organize and activate health data, and creates interventions to prevent and manage diseaseVerily, an Alphabet company is partnering with Emory Healthcare to deploy new solutions to help
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Verantos Awarded NIH Grant to Fund Clinical Phenotyping in Real-World Evidence

by Fred Pennic 12/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Verantos Awarded NIH Grant to Fund Clinical Phenotyping in Real-World Evidence

- Verantos has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund advanced clinical phenotyping in real-world evidence (RWE) studies.- Grant number R44TR002437 ties directly to the 21st Century Cures Act's national goals of increasing the use of RWE to refine the standard of care and create a more tailored approach to therapy.Verantos, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of regulatory-grade real-world evidence (RWE) studies, today announced that it has received a grant from the
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