During the pandemic, electronic clinical outcomes assessments (eCOAs) gained prominence as sponsors looked for more agile tools to help them capture patient data remotely through decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). From the adoption of virtual models like eCOAs and DCTs, a new opportunity emerged to enhance the patient experience. Decreasing the amount of time spent on on-site appointments helped reduce patient burden. Additionally, sponsors gained real-time insights on how patients interact
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Cerner Collaboration to Increase Access to Cancer Clinical Trials
What You Should Know: - Cerner, Elligo Health Research® and Freenome are collaborating to enable a clinical trial through the Learning Health Network to help advance early cancer detection. - Together they will be using the research-activated network of health systems, real-world data (RWD) and multiomics technology, developed by Freenome, with the goal to help accelerate early cancer detection. Importance of Early Cancer Detection Early
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How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
Although it is well established that diversity improves outcomes and drives excellence, implementing diversity lags behind in many industries, including life sciences and healthcare. Diversity is lacking across the entire field, from academic research to clinical work, composition of the workforce, and medical practice. This leads to worse health outcomes and fewer professional opportunities for underserved demographics, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with
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3 Predictions for Post-COVID Clinical Trial Decentralization
Prior to COVID, major technological transformation initiatives were already underway at many clinical trial sites, sponsors, and contract research organizations (CROs.) But the move to decentralized trials accelerated dramatically in 2020 and 2021–and it’s not slowing down. Survey data from WCG Avoca shows that research sites and sponsors expect 89% of clinical trials to qualify as a hybrid, with a mix of decentralized technology and in-person visits. But what will these
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Reify Health Secures $220M to Support Clinical Trial Diversity at $4.8B Valuation
What You Should Know: - Reify Health, a leading provider of solutions that empower the clinical trial ecosystem, announced a $220M Series D funding round dedicated to improving diversity in clinical research. The investment comes less than a year after its Series C and brings the company's valuation to $4.8B. - The Series C found was co-led by Altimeter Capital and Coatue, joined by Dragoneer Investment Group and existing investors ICONIQ Growth, Adams Street, and Battery
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THREAD Acquires Clinical Trial Recruitment Solution CureClick
What You Should Know: - THREAD, a technology and consulting service provider enabling electronic clinical outcome assessments and decentralized clinical trials has acquired CureClick, which offers the world’s first proprietary crowdsourcing platform designed to accelerate awareness and participation in clinical research. This acquisition follows THREAD’s recent acquisitions of Modus Outcomes and inVibe, positioning THREAD as the industry’s leading
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Transcarent Launches Oncology Care for Collaborative Cancer Care Experience
What You Should Know: - Transcarent, a new, different, and better health and care experience company for employees of self-insured employers and their families launches Transcarent Oncology Care, a collaborative cancer care experience that connects employees and their families with high-quality cancer care from leading cancer institutes, top-rated oncology providers and researchers, and clinical trial identification irrespective of their geographic location. - Transcarent Oncology Care
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NCODA & XIFIN Launch Initiative to Expand Oncology Patient Care Options
What You Should Know: - XIFIN has partnered with NCODA, Inc., a globally recognized association that develops unique resources to help medically integrated oncology teams deliver top-tier care. This new strategic partnership “NCODA Informatics Initiative Powered by VisualStrata” provides the use of VisualStrata as part of the NCODA membership. - As oncology groups work to find and secure clinical trials – thereby expanding patient care options within their practice – purpose-built
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Komodo & Datavant Partner to Unlock Real World Data Across Healthcare
What You Should Know: - Today, Komodo Health and Datavant are expanding their partnership to make it even easier for companies to bring together disparate datasets and unlock deeper insights to speed innovation and improve patient outcomes. Together, the companies are helping customers gain more value than ever before from their proprietary or third-party data by linking it with Komodo’s longitudinal patient journey data and advanced analytics platform – all without compromising patient
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At-Home Digital Health Innovations Transforming Diabetes Care
If you’re looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19 dark cloud still enshrouding the world, consider this: The pandemic has turbocharged widespread acceptance of at-home digital health solutions. Forced to function in a world of social distancing, healthcare providers and physicians have quickly discovered how easily telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital therapeutics can improve patient care. Many of these digital health innovations are designed to address
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