What You Should Know:
- Today, CVS Health announced a collaboration with Cancer
Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) to provide in-home chemotherapy for
clinically eligible and fully insured patients.
- The program, which leverages CVS Health’s home infusion
service, Coram, and CTCA’s expertise as a top oncology care provider, aims to
minimize immunocompromised patients’ exposure to COVID-19 by offering an
alternative to inpatient or in-office cancer care.
- Through this program,
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Komodo Health Acquires Cloud-Based Life Sciences Platform Mavens- M&A
What You Should Know:
- Komodo Health announces the acquisition of Mavens, a cloud-based platform for life sciences to expand its software capabilities.
- The acquisition of Mavens offers customers a cloud-based platform with a suite of software that ends reliance on fragmented data and expensive single-point solutions.
Komodo Health today announced its acquisition of Mavens, a leader in cloud-based technology solutions for the life sciences. The acquisition will enable Komodo
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Verily, Broad, Microsoft Partner to Expand Life Sciences Research with Azure Cloud
What You Should Know:
- Verily and The Broad Institute have partnered with
Microsoft to expand health and life sciences research utilizing the Microsoft
Azure cloud.
- The new partnership brings together Microsoft’s cloud, data, and AI technologies, and a global network of more than 168,000 health and life sciences partners to accelerate the development of global biomedical research through the Terra platform, provide greater access and empower the open-source community.
Broad
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20 COVID-19 Predictions and Trends for 2021 – Executive Roundup
Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer, GYANT
The rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a monumental achievement, but it does nothing to address our extremely fragmented healthcare system. In 2021, policymakers must create and extend incentives to providers to work together to keep patients healthy rather than maximize profit. The pandemic has devastated the traditional fee-for-service budgets of many healthcare systems, and it isn't clear they will ever be able to catch up without
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Gladskin’s President Skyler Stein Talks Endolysin Technology – Q/A
We recently spoke with Skyler Stein, President of Dutch biotechnology company Gladskin to learn more about its global endolysin technology that uses its science to improve inflammatory skin conditions by rebalancing the skin microbiome. Gladskin's parent company, Micreos, raised about $36.7M in funding last year for its endolysin technology that is poised to replace many antibiotics and overcome some of the challenges of antimicrobial resistance.
HITC: Skyler, can you speak more
about
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Vaccine Safety Expert Shares 5 COVID-19 Vaccine Facts to Protect 2021
Now more than ever, public confidence is key. It's our job as medical professionals, the FDA's job, and public figures' job to convince the population to vaccinate by presenting the real results of studies.
The current vaccine hesitancy, which might result in a large proportion of people refusing vaccination, will leave us with an ongoing global crisis, even with the best vaccines ever made. A vaccine only works if it is actually administered.
Five Vaccine Facts to Protect
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Verily Nabs $700M to Expand Baseline, Verily Health Platforms
What You Should Know:
- Verily, a subsidiary of
Alphabet focused on life sciences and healthcare announced it has raised $700M
from current investors, including Alphabet, Silver Lake, Temasek, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and others.
- The company plans to use the capital to support rapid
expansion of some of Verily’s leading commercial businesses including Baseline, an end-to-end ecosystem
designed to make clinical research more efficient; and Verily Health Platforms,
which supports
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How Hackers Are Targeting COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Chains – Q/A
With the US and other major countries poised to begin national
distribution of multiple FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines, the cybersecurity threats
to secure COVID19
vaccine distribution is imminent. Earlier this month, IBM released a report on malicious cyber actors targeting
the COVID-19 cold chain—an integral part of delivering and storing a vaccine at
safe temperatures.
Impersonating a biomedical company, cyber actors are sending phishing and spear-phishing emails to executives and global
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M&A: Cerner to Acquire Health Division of Kantar for $375M in Cash
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announces it will acquire Kantar Health, a leading data, analytics, and real-world evidence and commercial research consultancy serving the life science and health care industry.
- This acquisition is expected to allow Cerner’s Learning
Health Network client consortium and health systems with more opportunities to
directly engage with life sciences for funded research studies. The acquisition
is expected to close during the first half of
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FDA Authorizes First Fully Over the Counter COVID-19 Home Test
What You Should Know:
- FDA grants Emergency Use Authorization for Ellume
COVID-19 Home Test for non-prescription home use in symptomatic and
asymptomatic individuals
- The first fully over-the-counter COVID-19 Home Test
demonstrated 96% accuracy in a multi-site US clinical study of both adults and
children 2 years and above
- Ellume is ramping up manufacture, with production on
track for over 100,000 tests per day in January 2021
Ellume, a
digital diagnostics announced its rapid,
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