Northwell Health has implemented Clinithink's natural language processing (NLP) solution, CLiX ENRICH to reinvent the clinical trial feasibility model – enabling the rapid identification of potential patients for clinical trials that had simply been missed before. The solution has allowed Northwell to successfully identifying candidates for clinical trials in hours not months.
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By quickly and efficiently processing existing unstructured patient data, sites are able
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Microsoft Develops New Chatbot to Match Patients to Clinical Trials Easier
Microsoft has developed a clinical trials chatbot designed to optimize matching patients with appropriate clinical trials, Bloomberg first reports. By using AI-driven machine reading technology to ingest the selection criteria for each clinical trial, the chatbot uses this data to determine which questions to ask patients and matches their answers to suitable clinical trials. The chatbot initially started as a hackathon project at Microsoft’s Corp’s lab in Israel and is part of a larger
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Massachusetts General Hospital to Deploy CarePassport’s Digital Health Platform for Clinical Trials
Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding hospital of Partners HealthCare, announced it will implement CarePassport's digital health platform for patient monitoring and engagement in research studies. The largest hospital-based research program in the nation selected the Boston-based company to enhance its research processes in clinical trials by enabling two-way communication with patients and collecting more structured health data throughout the patient's medical journey.CarePassport's
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TriNetX Develops Algorithm for Deducing The Chemotherapy Line of Treatment
TriNetX, the global health research network representing nearly 100 million patients, has developed a groundbreaking chemotherapy lines of treatment identification algorithm that understands treatment patterns to deduce the line of chemotherapy treatment a patient is undergoing. This information, up to now nearly impossible to obtain, is critical for biopharmaceutical companies striving to develop therapies for patients involved in care regimens beyond first line treatments.Chemotherapy lines
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WEGO Health Partners With CureClick to Accelerate Clinical Trial Recruitment
Today, WEGO Health, a network of more than 100,000 patient leaders, today announced it has partnered with CureClick to make patient influencers available through the CureClick clinical trial recruiting platform. Under the partnership, the two companies will leverage their combined expertise in crowd sourced patient recruitment to reduce the time, costs and friction associated with clinical trial enrollment.CureClick uses a proprietary crowdsourcing platform to enlist patient leaders to educate
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DrFirst Acquires VisibilityRx to Optimize Clinical Trial Recruitment
DrFirst, a provider of electronic prescribing, integrated medication management and secure communication for healthcare has acquired Duluth, GA-based VisibilityRx, a provider of clinical trial recruitment services to life sciences, clinical research organizations and pharmacies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For DrFirst, the acquisition provides 60,000 physician clients the ability to easily identify and refer their patients to the latest clinical trials and
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20 Promising Canadian Digital Health Companies to Watch
“A company’s odds of success are better the closer they can get to their market,” argues Stephen Hurwitz, a thought leader in the Canadian venture capital industry, recognizing that the proximity to a VC-tech hub can help the success rate of Canadian startups. A socialized healthcare system, Canada’s market is fragmented by province and type of care – most primary and emergency care is free for residents whereas specialty care, prescription drugs, long-term and in-home care amongst others,
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