What You Should Know: - Florence HealthcareTM, a clinical research technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, recently announced the completion of a year-long third-party study on the impact of Site Enablement PlatformsTM on clinical research timelines and costs. - The study by Marketcap Consulting is the first to compare how traditional site management approaches differ from site-first Site Enablement Platforms. The study looked at the impact of traditional sponsor
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HLTH22 Day 1 News Summary: Google, Maven, Highmark, LG, Others
Venture Capital, Private Equity Funding Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women’s and family health raises $90 million Series E funding bringing its total funding to $300M. Maven plans to use the latest round of funding to advance its end-to-end family care platform to enable deeper personalization to meet the diverse needs of women and families everywhere. Curavit Raises $5M for Digital Therapeutics
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HLTH22: Curavit Raises $5M for Digital Therapeutics Clinical Research
What You Should Know: - Curavit Clinical Research, a virtual contract research organization (VCRO) that specializes in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) announced it raised $5M in Series A funding to accelerate its growing portfolio of research in the global digital therapeutics (DTx) market. The round was led by Osage Venture Partners with additional investment from Royal Street Ventures and Narrow Gauge Ventures. - The new funding will be used to expand
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21st Century Pregnancy Care: Unleashing The Power of RNA
While maternal mortality is on the rise in the U.S., pregnancy health has seen little innovation in understanding the underlying biology of disease and is ripe for change. Nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of the prediction of preeclampsia. Fortunately, with new technology on the horizon, doctors will finally be able to predict preeclampsia and other pregnancy complications before they arise by evaluating the underlying biology of each pregnancy expressed through RNA messages.
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Komodo Health & Intercept Partner to Study Rare Liver Disease
What You Should Know: - Komodo Health announced its collaboration with Intercept Pharmaceuticals to power clinical research and new real-world evidence (RWE) with Komodo’s platform. Leveraging Komodo’s tech platform and Healthcare Map, Intercept was able to conduct a retrospective real-world study on the long term outcomes for Ocaliva — a therapeutic for rare liver disease, primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). Partnership Details Intercept initially developed a traditional
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Forrester Unveils 5 Healthcare Predictions for 2023
What You Should Know: - A new dawn is on the horizon in healthcare. Equipped with new digital capabilities and pressured by new consumer expectations for personalized, convenient experiences, healthcare organizations face a predicament — act now and stay afloat, fail to act and get consumed by the competition, or risk financial ruin. - Market research leader Forrester’s latest report explores 5 key predictors for healthcare in 2023. Healthcare in the Era Post-Covid COVID-19
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AI ‘s Role in Drug Discovery: Separating the Hype from the Hope
Forecasting the influence that artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning technologies will have on the future of healthcare has created a cottage industry in the hype. From the overzealous aspirations of IBM’s Watson Health initiative to the inclusion of AI on Gartner’s 2021 Hype Cycle at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations,” so much noise has been made around AI/machine learning in healthcare that it can be difficult to appreciate the current impact of these technologies on drug discovery,
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Numares Health & Mayo Clinic Expands AI-Enabled Diagnostic Testing Collaboration
What You Should Know: - Mayo Clinic and Numares Health have expanded their collaboration recently to develop AI-enabled diagnostic testing that is more accurate and reliable than current U.S. tests for patients with chronic diseases, including kidney, cardiovascular, liver and neurologic conditions. - The expanded collaboration builds on Mayo Clinic's clinical research support for Numares Health to include an innovative convertible equity investment. AI-Enabled
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Cultivating an Early Warning System in Healthcare Quality Through Bi-Directional Patient-Physician Engagement
Patient advocacy organizations and medical specialty societies can serve as a liaison between patients and providers in bi-directional engagement, closing gaps in the patient journey and ultimately driving innovation for higher quality care. Patients are the keyholders to an enormous trove of data that is critical to taking the next step in improving the quality of their care. However, patient data collection has been a historically difficult process due to disparate data sources,
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings Launches Expansion Journal Focused on Digital Health
What You Should Know: - Mayo Clinic will launch a new Mayo Clinic Proceedings expansion journal on digital health, with the first issue to be published in early 2023. Articles will be published ahead of issue as they are accepted. - The journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, will focus on the digital transformation that is reshaping healthcare. It will join Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, an open-access journal edited by Taimur
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