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- H1, the connecting force for global healthcare provider, clinical, science, and research information, today announced the availability of indication-level diversity insights in addition to institution, provider, and patient diversity data within its Trial Landscape solution.
- Additionally, H1 has successfully onboarded its first customer – a top 20 pharmaceutical company – onto the H1 Data Network, a new solution that aggregates sponsor-contributed site and
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Risky Business of Health Trackers: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know
Gone are the days when healthcare information was only available to us at the doctor’s office or through the office's online portals, and that’s in part due to the rapidly growing popularity of wearable technology devices. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. use a fitness or health tracker to monitor things such as heart rate, blood pressure, sleep cycle, and stress. But this information is being used beyond just monitoring specific conditions. Take me, for example; I personally use my
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Surgo Health Launches RWD-Driven Socio-Behavioral Analytics Platform
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- Surgo Health, a new healthcare technology company dedicated to personalized care announced its official launch in Washington, D.C.
- Formed as a public benefits company (PBC), Surgo Health is building on the analytics and proprietary data assets from Surgo Ventures and is developing a revolutionary socio-behavioral analytics platform and generating novel, real-world data to enable a greater understanding of the complex factors that influence how individuals engage
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Why Clinical Data Research Needs a Makeover in 2023
Clinical research is only as good and thorough as the data that’s available — and we need to do a better job of making that data accessible for researchers.
Unfortunately, the majority of clinical data is based on the same clinical sites and makes conclusions off a limited range of data points. Clinical trials often exclude minorities, rare disease subtypes and other underrepresented populations.
Changing the way we gather and share clinical data isn’t easy. Hospitals, biobanks and
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ObvioHealth Launches Digital Therapeutics API for Clinical Trials
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- ObvioHealth launches proprietary application programming interface (API) tailored specifically for digital therapeutics (DTx) clinical trials.
- ObvioHealth’s API ensures tight integration between the digital therapeutic and the ObvioGo platform, providing sponsors with accurate data to correlate efficacy with adherence to the DTx. In addition, ObvioGo’s integration reduces participant task duplication because—in most cases—outcomes can be passively captured
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Addressing the Diversity Challenge in Clinical Research Through Patient Advocacy
Diversity is paramount to the success of clinical research, both ethically and scientifically. Without adequate representation of racial and ethnic minorities, investigators lack an understanding of the safety and efficacy of novel treatments within those groups. From a scientific standpoint, an incomplete dataset hinders drug delivery and the development of breakthrough therapies – but from an ethical standpoint, underrepresentation creates a barrier to treatment options for populations that
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Vysioneer & Pfizer Partner on AI-Powered Oncology Clinical Trials
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- Vysioneer, a provider of applied AI for Oncology, today announced a data-sharing agreement with Pfizer, a global leader in pharmaceuticals. The agreement aims to lay the foundation for the application of AI in oncology clinical trials.
As part of the agreement, Vysioneer gains access to one of Pfizer's oncology clinical trial datasets to apply Vysioneer's advanced machine-learning techniques to facilitate the drug efficacy assessment process, thereby allowing Pfizer
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Bluestem Health Launches AI-Based Virtual Healthcare Assistant Powered by Mediktor
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- Nebraska-based Bluestem Health today announced it has launched an AI-based virtual medical assistant powered by Mediktor. This is available for both established and non-established patients to efficiently assess their symptoms online and direct them to the appropriate level of care.
- Mediktor combines AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning technologies for the first clinically validated digital medical assistant, proven in clinical trials with
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5 Components of a Patient-Centric eCOA Strategy for Oncology Clinical Trials
In the US alone, an estimated 1.9 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2022, positioning oncology as a key subject of clinical research. Throughout oncology trial development, it is important that stakeholders acknowledge that only patients can fully understand the impact of treatment on their lives. Regulators are now looking beyond clinical indications such as tumor size and delayed disease progression. When evaluating the risks and benefits of treatment, they want to know whether the
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Report: Pharma R&D ROI Falls to Lowest Level in 13 Years
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- Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions releases its thirteenth annual report, ‘Seize the Digital Momentum: Measuring the return from pharmaceutical innovation 2022’ that explores the performance of the biopharmaceutical industry (bio Pharma) and its ability to generate returns from investment in innovative new medicines.
- Since 2021, much of the world has successfully adjusted to life where COVID-19 is more endemic as vaccines and treatments reduced the risk and
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