The National Science Foundation, today announced a grant to VMT for developing technology focused on pragmatic clinical trials allowing clinical outcomes to be extracted from real-world data. VMT is a medical technology incubation firm, developing and commercializing cutting-edge healthcare products to address critical healthcare needs. The approach uses artificial intelligence to dive deep into the electronic health record (EHR) for outcome data to enable EHR-based pragmatic clinical trials.
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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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Life Image, Medel.ai Integrates to Support AI-Driven Clinical Trails
Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data, today announced a new partnership with Mendel.ai, a novel AI platform built to turbocharge oncology clinical research, to support the adoption of AI in site selection and patient recruitment for clinical trials.According to Accenture, AI-powered clinical trial identifier apps are expected to save the industry $13B by 2026. This strategic partnership between Life Image and Mendel addresses this demand by combining the power of
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Allergan Joins TriNetX to Access Network of Real-World Data for Clinical Research
TriNetX, the global health research network, today announced that globally recognized leader in the pharmaceutical industry Allergan has joined their network for real-time access to patient populations, driven and refreshed by clinical data, to determine protocol feasibility, cohort analysis, and site identification.As a member of the network, Allergan will be able to leverage real-time access to de-identified real-world data from more than 135 million patients in order to make more informed
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Israeli Startup Alpha Tau Medical Raises $29M for Radiation Cancer Therapy
Alpha Tau Medical, an Israeli medical tech startup developer of a breakthrough alpha radiation cancer therapy, today announced it has raised $29 million in funding led by Shavit Capital. The round also included participation from OurCrowd.com, Medison Ventures and significant private investors contributed to the funding round including the preeminent international social impact VC and private equity investors, Sir Ronald Cohen and Alan Patricof, the founders of Apax Partners.Founded in 2016,
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Akouos Raises $50M to Advance Precision Medicine for Hearing Disorders
Akouos, a Boston, MA-based precision genetic medicine company developing gene therapies that restore and preserve hearing has raised $50 million in Series A funding co-led by 5AM Ventures and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investor Partners Innovation Fund and new investors Sofinnova Ventures, RA Capital Management and Novartis Venture Fund. The company plans to use the funding round to advance its lead program to first-in-human clinical trials and bolster its
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Carilion Clinic Joins TriNetX Network to Expand Clinical Research and Collaboration Opportunities
TriNetX, the global health research network, will announce the latest addition to its research network: Carilion Clinic, a not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Roanoke, Virginia. By joining the network, Carilion will enhance its researchers’ ability to quickly execute clinical trials and collaborate with other industry TriNetX network members. Carilion, serves nearly one million residents and owns and operates seven hospitals, more than 225 outpatient practices, and Jefferson College
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ObvioHealth Launches Mobile App to Transform Clinical Studies
Clinical trials are a crucial component to advancing healthcare, bringing new therapies to market and better understanding the pathological process of disease in the human body. That said, the clinical research industry is bogged down in antiquated processes, and is hungry for innovative tech that puts patients first to drive the industry forward.ObvioHealth, a healthcare technology company, just announced the official launch of its mobile application for site-less clinical studies—ClaimIt. The
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5 Ways SmartTrials is Advancing Precision Medicine Through Genomics
Foundation Medicine’s Dr. Gaurav Singal shares how his company’s platform is changing the game in clinical trials and bolstering precision medicine through genomics.The evolution may be slow going, but it looks like precision medicine is destined to disrupt many aspects of healthcare, and it’s already demonstrating that transformative power in clinical trials—where patient recruitment and retention have long plagued the process, according to Foundation Medicine’s Dr. Gaurav Singal.“Current
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Why Data is the Key to Driving Closer Provider/Life Sciences Collaboration
“He who controls information controls the world.” This quote, which sounds like it should be from a famous world leader but is actually from a character on the sci-fi program “Babylon 5,” perfectly describes the opportunity life sciences organization marketers have before them today.As healthcare continues its rapid march toward value-based care, providers are increasingly being held responsible for patient (and financial) outcomes. Yet many of them are taking on this risk essentially
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