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- EarliTec Dx, a digital health company developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic products for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and early childhood vulnerabilities, today announced a $19.5 million financing led by Bernie Marcus, with participation from the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA).
- This round of financing will be used to support filing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 510K clearance, as well as commercialization of the
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H1 Acquires London-Based Faculty Opinions to Broaden Global Doctor Network
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H1, a global healthcare professional data ecosystem to enable life sciences, academic medical institutions, health systems, and payors acquires London-based Faculty Opinions Ltd, formerly known as Faculty of 1000 and F1000 Prime. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- A close partner of H1, Faculty Opinions fuses the comments and opinions of thousands of top researchers in the Life and Medical Sciences to highlight and validate the most
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Medable Launches Decentralized Clinical Trials Partner Network
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- Medable Inc., a Palo Alto, CA-based provider for patient-centered clinical trials, today launched the Medable Partner Network – uniting a diverse ecosystem of technology, service, data, site, and direct-to-patient partners that work together to accelerate deployment of decentralized clinical trials.
- The network includes new partnerships with Advanced Clinical, Cognizant, and CVS, and expanded relationships with Datavant, Oracle, Parexel, PPD, part of
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CVS Health Taps Medable to Bring Decentralized Clinical Trials to Pharmacies Nationwide
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- Medable and CVS Health announced a strategic collaboration that will make clinical research more accessible to patients of all demographics. Using Medable’s decentralized trial platform available to CVS Health’s thousands of community MinuteClinics nationwide, most people will be within just five minutes of a decentralized clinical trial research site – finally busting the longstanding barrier to research for millions of Americans
- Where applicable, CVS Health will
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UBC Partners with Seqster to Advance Patient-Centric Clinical Trials
- UBC, late-stage research and patient support services organization partners with Seqster PDM, Inc. ("Seqster"), a patient-centric healthcare technology company, to provide nationwide health record interoperability with patient engagement.
- UBC will utilize the technology to enable clinical and observational research to transition from traditional site-based studies to decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). Seqster's turnkey white label solution facilitates the rapid move to a fully
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Philips Launches First At-Home, 12-Lead ECG Integrated Solution for Decentralized Clinical Trials
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- Philips introduced the industry’s first full-service, at-home, 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) solution for use in decentralized clinical trials.
- The solution is the most advanced patient-centric ECG offering within the company’s cardiac monitoring portfolio, pairing data readings comparable to clinical, site-based ECGs with Philips leading cloud-based data collection and analysis services.
Patient Attrition Issues
Patient attrition is one of the biggest
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Implementing Responsible AI to Drive Innovation in Clinical Research & Precision Medicine
Researchers might be skeptical and, with people’s lives at stake, that’s understandable. Here’s how to take advantage of the advances while ensuring safeguards are in place.
As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning drive innovation and disruption in clinical trials and precision medicine, questions around the responsible use of AI have moved to the forefront of debates among healthcare stakeholders – patients, providers, regulatory authorities, payors and sponsors. To what extent,
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Topography Health Launches out of Stealth with $27.5M to Empower Community Physicians to Run Clinical Drug Trials
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- Topography Health, a clinical trials startup focused on community physicians, today launched out of stealth with $27.5M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures.
- Co-founded by former Gerson Lehrman Group CEO Alexander Saint-Amand, Topography is making it possible for your family doctor to offer clinical drug trials as part of their practice. Not just for potentially terminal illnesses, but also for moderate chronic illnesses, where the
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Decentralized Clinical Trials Can Achieve Net Financial Benefits of 5X to 14X
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- New data from Tufts and Medable reveal on average, decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) are associated with reduced clinical trial timelines and can achieve net financial benefits ranging from five to 14 times for Phase II and Phase III trials, respectively.
- The findings are based on financial modeling and analysis of trial data from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), Tufts University School of Medicine, and more than 150 clinical trials
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GSK Launches Accelerated Clinical Trial with Tempus
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- Tempus and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced an accelerated phase II study evaluating the efficacy and safety of niraparib, an oral, once daily PARP inhibitor, for patients with breast and pancreatic cancers. The study, titled “Niraparib in the Treatment of Patients With Advanced PALB2 Mutated Tumors” (the PAVO study, NCT05169437) is sponsored by Tempus and opened for enrollment on January 7, 2022.
- This trial’s data-driven design and site selection
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