What You Should Know: - The companies and organizations that comprise the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), representing all sectors of the American healthcare industry, have joined in a commitment to advance health equity in the United States including principles and actions to ultimately eliminate health disparities. - The joint commitment follows the release late last year of a report developed by HLC and ZS, a global management and technology consulting firm, identifying multiple
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Curebase Launches Remote First DTx Research Platform
What You Should Know: - Curebase, a company committed to democratizing access to clinical trials, announced the release of its integrated software and services package for digital therapeutics (DTx) trials that accelerates enrollment and allows sponsors to launch their studies faster. - Available now, the new Curebase offering includes the first one-stop-shop decentralized clinical trial (DCT) platform bundled with site and trial execution services for the DTx market. Making
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Paradigm Launches with $203M to Improve Clinical Research Access
What You Should Know: - Paradigm, a healthcare technology company focused on improving access to clinical research for patients, launched with $203 million in Series A funding. - Conceived by ARCH Venture Partners, and co-incubated by ARCH and General Catalyst, Paradigm is rebuilding the clinical research ecosystem by creating a technology-forward clinical trial platform that enables equitable access for all patients by enhancing trial efficiency and reducing the barriers to participation
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Boosting Clinical Trial Recruitment Requires Humanity – and Technology
Clinical trials should be a time of promise for better patient outcomes, as they explore new ways to potentially help patients suffering from a variety of conditions. Instead, this phase of treatment development is often met with exasperation as patients, researchers, and drug developers deal with the many barriers to clinical trial recruitment and access. There are two central – and intrinsically linked – problems with the current state of clinical trial recruitment in the U.S.:
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Alira Health Secures $58M to Expand Global Growth
What You Should Know: - Alira Health, a global healthcare advisory, clinical research and technology company, announced it secured an additional $58M in capital funding to accelerate delivery of patient-centric, technology-enabled healthcare solutions. Previously, Alira Health raised $35M in 2021 and $40M in 2022, in two rounds led by Creadev. - Alira Health is focused on new opportunities brought into effect in the United States by federal rules preventing the blocking of electronic
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Real-World Data Startup Crescendo Health Launches with $3.2M
What You Should Know: - Crescendo Health, a real-world data startup that's drastically reshaping how clinical researchers get access to hard-to-reach patient data to support their clinical research today officially announced its launch with $3.4M in seed funding from Define Ventures as well as the founders and CEOs of many other well-known organizations. - Founded by the co-founder of Datavant (merged with Ciox in a $7 billion deal), and a top product-management leader from Grand
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Exec Hires: GE HealthCare Names Taha Kass-Hout First Chief Technology Officer
What You Should Know: GE HealthCare announced today that Taha Kass-Hout MD, MS has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company’s new science and technology organization. - Reporting to GE HealthCare President & CEO Peter Arduini, Dr. Kass-Hout will help drive GE HealthCare’s D3 precision care strategy, a framework and digital products that emphasize the company’s smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digital. D3 brings data and insights together to
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Q/A: Podimetrics CEO Talks Preventing Diabetic Amputations
Diabetes prevention is one of the biggest challenges in the healthcare industry as more than 37 million Americans (11.3% of the population) suffer from this debilitating chronic disease. As we close the year out, we sat down with Jon Bloom, MD, CEO and Co-founder of diabetic healthcare tech company Podimetrics to learn how the industry and his company are working to implement health equity change to serve patients living with advanced diabetes. The company’s FDA-cleared SmartMat provides a
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Pangea Biomed Adds $5M for its Multi-Cancer Response Predictor
What You Should Know: - Pangea Biomed, the biotech company behind ENLIGHT, the multi-cancer response predictor improving the effectiveness of precision oncology, announced $5M in additional funding reaching a total seed round of $12M. - The latest fundraising is led by angel investor Danny Tocatly and existing investor NFX, and will be used to expand US operations, drive commercial partnerships, and scale product offerings. Expanding US Operations and Fostering Commercial
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Clinical Trials: 5 Steps to Greater eConsent Adoption
Clinical trials advance much-needed treatments while offering hope to patients and their families. However, the process of enrolling in a study where they will receive investigational medicines, vaccines or procedures can be a source of friction – enough for patients to rethink participation. The weight of the decision combined with a perceived lack of transparency of information can confuse or dismay even those patients that are most savvy in the medical industry. Even if they do end
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